Christmas Card Crunch

I just discovered that I am seriously short Christmas cards this year. What happened???
So, I had some previously colored images, and I whipped up some extremely simple cards. Here is a sampling...

And, some last minute holiday knitting. 

Sideslip Hat
Spud and Chloe - Outer

Some Easter Cards

Here are a couple of cards that I made just for fun this week. Loving to get together with the ladies at the church up the street to stamp/craft...


Here the first one:

Materials:
Paper: Lawn Fawn - Bright Side, Misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress - Faded Jeans, Magnolia - Tilda with Straw Hat (Butterfly Dreams Collection)
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Ovals
Misc.: Copic markers, ribbon, jewel embellishments

Here's the second one: 

This is a background blending technique using copics that was recently featured over on PTI's blog.

Materials: 
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Paris Dusk, PTI: Beautiful Butterflies, Hero Arts - Easter sentiment
Misc.: Copic markers

Some random Cards...

Here are just a couple of cards that I made with some new products/toys that I received over the last few days.

1. Easter Card

New Toy - Paper Piercer (stampin' up)

2. All Occasion Card

New Toy - Sizzix Edgelits die (stampin' up), Lawn Fawn - Bright Sides paper, Lawn Fawn - Gnome Sweet Gnome

Frenzy of Christmas Cards

I may not have been posting, but that doesn't mean that I haven't been busy.

Cards....

Knitting....

 Fiddlehead mittens.

Self-ruffling scarves - Tinseltown.


More cards....

Long time since an update...

It has been a long time since an update.... mostly because my laptop has had some major issues and been back to Houston to the Dell repair Depot, and then, after that, had to be worked on in-house by a technician. What a mess!

Here are some things that I've been working on over the last few weeks...

Some stamping....

I'm not going to post the details for all these cards/tag. Suffice it to say, there's been some Magnolia, Lawn Fawn, and Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers action going on around here.

Some knitting....

 Self-ruffling scarves!  (Tinseltown)

 And more Puerperium!!

And lots more mittens.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Here's this week's fabulous sketch by Arlana over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday...

Here's mine....

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, unknown DP
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Magnolia - Golf Tilda
Misc.: Copic markers, white gel pen, twine from The Twinery, ribbon and buttons from Michael's

CPS Sketch

I have to say, these CPS sketches are some of my favorites! Here's this week's charming little number...

Here's mine....

Materials
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, unknown DP
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Paper Smooches- Fruitastic (sentiment), Magnolia - Blueberry Tilda
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Statndard circles
Misc.: Midnight blue stardust stickles, white gel pen, copic markers, twine from The Twinery

Just for fun...

I've been playing a little bit this evening (so glad the computer is finally fixed... hence the flurry of blog postings -- all cards were not done in one day, just finally had the means to post them all!).


Here are some for fun cards...

This one is from a fabulous class over at Scrapbooks, too, that my Mom and I just went to a week or so ago. We're gearing up for the big Intermediate Copic certification next month (or wait... two weeks from now!!).  We were focusing on coloring skin and hair with copics. Not wild about the paper combo, but fun class!

And, here is the start of another set of cards that I will be gifting, using some of Paper Smooches' Fruitastic release. (So excited for their next release!)

Materials:
Stamps/Inks: Paper Smooches- Fruitastic, Memento - Tuxedo Black
Misc.: Spellbinders - Labels 11 (half), copic markers, new twine from The Twinery, Cuttlebug embossing folder