Happy New Year's Eve!

Hi Guys-

It's New Year's Eve.  Hope you all have wonderful and safe plans for tonight.  I will be picking up the Chinese food in a little while and later on, heading to be with friends.  But I'll probably come home early so I don't have to drive after midnight.  I know, I'm a whimp!

This season has been busy and I've made a lot of holiday cards.  But the one I'm going to show you today is a little unusual.  I had to make an apology as I forgot one gift and the person's feelings were hurt.  I felt terrible so I made a holiday themed card and wrote my apology and included the gift.

The card is red card stock cut to fit a 4 1/4x 5 1/2 envelope.  I eyeball my cuts instead of measuring.  The border is a new Martha Stewart punch I got for Christmas.  The striped paper is from this year's gcd Studios "sacdia jul" card stack.  The silver paper (the picture doesn't do it justice) is from last year's DCWV Christmas & Winter Combo card stack.  The ribbon is generic red grosgrain, and the button is a specialty that I had left over.  The sentiment is on Cricut's "Stamping" cartridge.  I cut the words at 3/4 inch in white and cut the shadow in green.  The cute deer was cut from Cricut's "Create a Critter" on page 69 cut at 2 1/2 inches.

Have fun creating!
Linda :)

Pin-weave Snowman

Hi Everyone!

I'm afraid I'm not as good as I'd like to be at keeping up with this blog.  However, I keep thinking that I'm going to do better, and maybe I will.  In the meantime, I was really busy with card making for the holidays and below is an example.

First, I ran a piece of glitter paper (from DCWV's Christmas Winter papers) through my Cuttlebug's Swiss Dots folder.  Then I traced a snowman in the center of the back of the paper and used my craft knife to cut it out.  From scraps, I put the cut-out aside to use in a second card.  Then I chose 3 different ribbons from my scraps.  I laid a piece of scrap card stock down and using common pins, pinned one end of several strips of ribbon directly beside each other.  Then I took one ribbon and wove it thru the pinned ribbons, going under one ribbon and over the next.  Once it was woven across all pinned ribbons, I pinned it in place.  I continued in this manner until there was enough weaving to fill-in the cut snowman when laid on top of the weaving.  When the weaving was completed, I secured it to the bottom card stock with scotch tape, one ribbon at a time. I also made sure the ribbon ends midway to the margin of the top layer. I put lots of AVG gun tape on the glitter paper and laid it over the pin-weaving with all four edges able to be glued directly to the bottom layer..  There are now three layers:  scrap card stock, weaving, top glitter card stock.  On the computer I typed the sentiment and finally, I added the pointsetta button, cutting the shank off before I attached with a glue-dot.

Hope you enjoy this one!