Another Unexpected Christmas Card

These scraps of Martha Stewart patterned paper were sitting by my paper cutter, taunting me. I purchased this cute tree stamp at Michaels today and decided to use it with the birthday themed paper for another Unexpected Xmas card for the Hero Club Challenge. I used distress inks in Fired Brick, Worn Lipstick and Spiced Marmalade to stamp the 3 trees onto a scrap of PTI Vintage Cream card stock. I used Nestabilities and scraps of PTI for my layers and sentiment tag and some Offray grosgrain in bright orange. The sentiment is from Hero Arts Jolly Christmas clear set. I decorated my trees with a mixture of rhinestones from Michaels Recollections brand and some cellphone bling I found at Wal*Mart.

As I finished up the card this afternoon, one of my Facebook friends updated her status with this:

"5yr old boy named Noah Biorkman is in the last stages of a 2 1/2yr battle with Neuroblastoma Cancer. The family is celebrating Christmas NEXT WEEK and Noah's request is to get lots of Christmas cards. Let’s get him some! Please send cards to: Noah Biorkman, 1141 Fountain View Circle, South Lyon, MI 48178 Let’s see how many cards we can get to this little guy, Thank You! PLEASE REPOST THIS TO YOUR STATUS TODAY!"

 And I decided that I must have been making this card for Noah. It will go in the mail tomorrow. I hope some of you will decide to send the Biorkman's a Christmas card this week too.

Christmas Shaker

Here's another shaker card I made. It's actually the first one I put together, it's for this week's Hero Club Challenge: Unexpected Christmas Colors. All cardstock is PTI and all stamps are Hero Arts. I used Nestabilities for my shaker frame and bugle beads and Martha Stewart glitter for the shake-y stuff.

I also want to let you guys know that there's a new Silhouette blog with a new design team. One of the design team members is none other than Erin Lincoln! I'm so excited about that. They are pushing for 500 followers and giving away a $50 download card if they reach their goal by Monday.
  

Birthday Shaker Card

I made this card for a friend and actually sent it in. the. mail. today. I know, what's up with that? Today is her birthday, actually, so it's going to be slightly belated...ok, totally belated. I, the cardmaker, am always always late with the greeting cards. I never even sent my Christmas cards last year--dodged that bullet this year, because they're so ready to go hanging in a bag in the pantry. Oh yes, I will. 

I loosely followed a video tutorial from StampTV's Gina K for the shaker. I always thought shaker cards were over-doing it, but recently I've had the urge. And Gina K made it look so easy. Part 1 of her tutorial is below:

A Week, Really?

 Time got away from me, I guess. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to get inspired. I sometimes feel as though I'm only creating for this blog and nobody reads it so why do I bother? Meh, I should just get over it and create for ME, right?

Friday we took the kids to the zoo for trick-or-treating and they had a blast! We'll definitely be doing that again next year.

Cards Blog Weekly Challenge

Northridge Media's Cards Magazine has a blog and that blog has a weekly challenge. This week's challenge was collage-y with loooooooooots of white space...I couldn't stop! I used up a pile of scraps and punches and just went nuts. I love them all!


HA Jolly Christmas sentiment, EK Success scalloped edge punch, Cuttlebug oval postage stamp die, Nestabilities Labels 4, basicGrey and Making Memories scraps, solid cardstock from Archiver's


HA artistic windows bg, white craft ink, circle punch, cuttlebug embossing folder, quickutz cork, making memories, archiver's and PTI paper scraps, ek success edge punch, recollections flat backed pearls


AmyR autumn sentiments stamp, stash buttons, making memories chloes closet and ledger paper, basic Grey lemonade, archiver's solid cardstock, ball fringe and crochet cotton, quickutz cork, martha stewart edge punch, ek success notebook edge punch

amyr autumn sentiments, stash buttons, basic grey lemonade, making memories ledger paper and chloe's closet, archiver's solid cardstock, ball fringe and crochet cotton, ek success scallop and notebook edge punches

all card bases are PTI