Hi there! I cannot believe it’s Christmas! All of the preparations, the shopping, the saving, the concerts, the baking – it’s finally here! Right now it is 3:30 am and I have just finished wrapping all of the presents and put the final touches on everything. It’s finally time to sleep!

I have one more Christmas card to share made with a really unlikely set: This month’s Technique Tuesday Greenhouse stamp set.. Check it out.

 

Who said poinsettias are the only Christmas flower?? I coloured up this lovely using festive colours and stamped a cool sentiment (Jingle All The Way by Ali Edwards) and BAM it’s a Christmas card! And it is the 25th, which means our December Greenhouse Society stamp set is ready to ship!

The new set is available for a limited time through our Web site and through some retailers.

Check out today’s blog post for some more inspiration!

 

Merry Christmas

and a

Happy New Year!

Hey readers! I am so happy with the card I'm sharing with you today! I sat down to make this card to preview this month's Greenhouse set and I really had no idea where I was going to go. Copic? Watercolor? Distress Stains? Copic won.... Here's what I made:




Is this a gorgeous stamp or what? I am so glad I tried Copics first because it really was a fun image to color.

How to...

1) stamp image on Copic paper with Memento ink
2) color with Copic markers and charcoal pencils
3) die cut image out with Spellbinders and ink edges with the die still on the paper.
4) assemble the remainder of the card


Check out the Technique Tuesday blog for more details!

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Hey readers! Sorry for not being around this past week. I’ve been busy with CHA assignments, a big corporate order for Christmas cards, and a whole lotta Christmas concerts with my high school choirs. It’s been nuts! I am so excited to share this card I just made for There She Goes – excited because I love it! My holiday cards this year have been a little bit vintage – I especially love newsprint or faux book pages.

 

Today at the TSG Blog we’re featuring some classic Christmas sets, and the focal image (scalloped circle and Rudy) is from the set: No Peeking. The final card measures 4.5 squared. A weird size for me, but the image is small so I didn’t want it dwarfed by a huge card.

 

Take care and have a great weekend! Got all your shopping done?? (not me, lol!!!)

Doesn't it suck when your real life gets in the way of your craft life? I joke, but for so many of us the demands of children/work/family/friends doesn't allow for as much craft time as we'd like, and the truth is we have to keep our priorities our priority! You know? Kim Teasdale was the mastermind behind iSpy Sketches and it has been a pleasure and an honour to work with the sketches she compiled and with the ladies who I designed with. Kim has had to close iSpy Sketches and none of the team was in a position to take it over (it's a LOT of work!!) so sadly our little foray into the challenge world is over.

This has been a really creative and fruitful experience. I have made a lot of cards with the wonderful iSpy Sketches and here's my favourite iSpy card from this past year:


I just love that you never know how a card is going to turn out - even when you use a sketch...

*sniff sniff*

Thank you for all of your comments and for playing along with us this year! It made me so happy to see people play along with our team.

Take care!

Phew! Every blog that I've been reading for the last couple of days have mentioned that IT'S DECEMBER ALREADY!! Yah.. Holy crap! I have my first Christmas concert on Thursday and 4 more after that. My kids and I will be very busy over the next couple of weeks, for sure. But to add to the business I have had a lot of designing to do over the weekend because, as you may know, I teach classes at my LSS and I had a deadline! I have a little sneak peek for you. I think it's my favourite card of the bunch (I made 13 cards for 3 different classes).





I went to town with some gorgeous Pink Paislee products and some dies. I can't wait to teach this class - lots of sparkly elements and lots of sass...

Another thing that's kept me busy?? Our beautiful tree:




It's my first monochromatic quasi-grownup tree and I'm really happy with it! Phoenix and I had a lot of fun putting up all of our new decorations!

Check you later!

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