Merry Christmas Cards from Jasmine and Harvey

My daughter and her husband took this picture of their parrots. She brought it to me and asked me to transform it into a "cool card". Well this is what we put together. She is exchanging cards with her Eclectus Parrot online group she belongs too, so needed some Christmas Parrot cards! I cut out the main pieces, she punched out everything, and I sent her back to apartment with stuff to make twenty! The main card is black CS, the frame of the pic is Handsome Hunter. Gold Cording wrapped around the bottom finished off with the punched ovals in Real Red CS and Shimmer White. We used big Office Brads to accent the gold in the picture on Word Window Punches in the left corner. The Merry Christmas is stamped in Real Red with the Fancy Flexible Phrases and sponged and edged with Encore Gold on the shimmer white. Inside it is stamped in Encore Gold with the star from Solemn Stillness and a saying from Star Studded Christmas.

Harvey and Jasmine, Eclectus Parrots

My married daughter and her husband moved into our basement apartment a while ago. Over Thanksgiving weekend look who came to live with us! This is Harvey and Jasmine, Eclectus Parrots. They are so pretty! When Harvey flaps his wings you can see the beautiful reds and blues underneath. Both of them are surprisingly quiet. I think the parakeets make more noise. They are eating their oatmeal here over the parakeets. They get a wide variety of healthy foods, my daughter has taken to making sprouts every day for them plus a host of other fun goodies. I think they are wonderful Christmas Colors...such bright incredible colors nature give us!

Quick Gift Tag

I finally got back into doing a challenge, yay! It is a quick one, cute little snowman, perfect for a red wrapped present I have in mind. Easy with craft white stamped with Snow Flurries, and Stazon stamped with Tags for All Snowmen. Colored with gel pens and there you are...tied with a blue ribbon, couldn't be easier!

Time Well Spent, Limited Supply Challenge

I used my new set, Time Well Spent, and created this card which fit the SCS challenge. It was the limited supply challenge LSC142. We were to limit our layers, only use 2-3 stamps including sentiment, only use one embellishment...and this was my result. I think it came out very Valentine looking, especially if you think Love when you read the sentiment!

Time Well Spent My Free Set from Stampin Up

Stampin Up decided to give all demonstrators a free stamp set this month, mine came yesterday. It's called Time Well Spent. It will be a Level 3 Hostess Set in the next catalog. Lots of stamps, all flowers and two sentiments! I made this card using the papers on my table from this weeks Color Challenge on SCS. Pomegranate and Kraft...I added black and here it is! I used Pomegranate Wide Satin Ribbon and narrow black satin ribbon, plus my glitter pens for some color and shine...:)

Fabulous Pomegranate Color Challenge

This was the SU Color Challenge CC140. I added black to the Kraft and Pomegranate colors of the challenge. It was fun to make...I used a Maple Leaf Punch to do the leaves behind the flower, and lots of layers and brads...fun! The hardest part was the satin ribbon I tied it a dozen times...the picture was hard to take as well...I wanted those stickles to shine, so I chose not the best pic...I need to study photo taking a bit more!

MommaKat's New Kittens

We felt bad MommaKat had to live outdoors...so we found her a new owner! They came and picked her up on Saturday.... All were delighted with the new situation, she loved her new place in Sandy, playing with their dog and it was working well. Until today we found MommaKat's hiding place for her kittens! Who knew? We certainly didn't. Luckily MommaKat has great new owners who were happy and excited to be brought the new kittens so Momma can finish raising them. Already the kittens have been spoken for and new owners are lining up...so we were happy for the kittens, they are now warm and safe. We felt bad we couldn't keep them, but allergies are so severe it just was not possible. But I thought you'd like to see pictures of the pretty kitties...and MommaKat...

Dashing Merry Christmas

This card uses Dashing SU Design Paper. Also shimmer white, Real Red and Old Olive. I made it for today's SCS Card Sketch Challenge SC149. I like how it turned out, I used my new Inkadinkado stamp with the oval and pretty swirls, the bird is from SU's It's Snow Time and the pine branch from SU's Lovely as a Tree. I used markers to ink them up and had a great time putting it all together. The swirl clip and brads are silver, the ribbon is white chiffon and SU's red grosgrain. I am enjoying doing the Christmas Cards. I still haven't found one I want to mass produce yet though...hmmn, I better get busy. :)