HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS

Today's card is a fun card to be sent to children before Christmas. White card stock is from Paper Trey. I embossed the design which appears on the right with a Cuddlebug folder and then trimmed it to mount on a piece of glossy gold card stock. Then I stamped the two designs with VersaMark and heat embossed them with Egyptian Gold embossing powder.

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THANK YOU FROM SANTA (#2)

Life has been extremely busy over the last few days with Thanksgiving, grandchildren staying here and an Aunt celebrating her 90th birthday. Not much getting done with cards so today it is just another version of the message from Santa using the same stamps but different layout. These were really fun to do.

Very soon I will begin posting Christmas cards I have made in case you'd like some ideas. Thanks for stopping by! I appreciate your comments.

THANK YOU FROM SANTA

A local soy candle shop/gift shop buys cards from me to resell. The other day I saw some stamps that made me think it would be fun to try some cards that parents can put out for their children after Santa comes. The front of this card is made up of three different stamps.....Santa's face is from Hero Arts, Ho Ho Ho is from Serendipity Stamps and the little holly is from an unknown company. On the inside of the card I have embossed the following message from another Serendipity stamp: "Thanks for the milk and cookies!!! See you next year. S. Claus". I do actually have a stamp on route to me now that has a cookie and milk image on it. I'll be stamping that on the inside.

This was a fun card to make.........now I just have to hope that they will sell. :)

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ONE LAST THANKSGIVING

Today's stamped design is also from Whipper Snapper Stamps and I "had to have it". The name of the stamp is Tucker Turkey.........my grandson's name is Tucker.

For this card, I used Snickerdoodle cardstock from Lasting Impressions and ran the front through the Cuttlebug using the folder that gives a woodgrain look to it. I used the same designer paper with the leaves for the bottom layer and cut it with the Labels One from Spellbinders. The middle layer is cut with a square die and Weathered Nutmeg paper. The top layer is Snickerdoodle paper and cut with the Labels One die.

The design was colored using Copic Markers..........I love these markers. I have additional colors to add to my inventory for sale so if you're interested, let me know.

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GROUP SWAP CARD

Our Yahoo Group has three monthly swaps. Most of the time this particular swap is a challenge of some type although we are free to send a card of our choice. This month the "regular" swap was opened to whatever type of card you wanted to send. I was paired to send my card to our "Group Mom" and since I had several Thanksgiving cards made up, I thought it was a good opportunity to send her one and let her know that I am thankful for all the great work she does on our group.

This card has a strip of designer paper with fall leaves on the left side of the card. I cut and embossed a piece of Weathered Nutmeg paper with a Spellbinders Borderabilities with the leaves pattern and adhered it close to the right edge of the card. Then rather than throw away the tiny leaves which get cut out, I used three of them on the off white portion of the paper.

The design of the cute turkey (from Whipper Snapper Stamps) was stamped on off white paper and colored with Copic markers. Then I cut it with one of the Spellbinders Labels One dies. I then used the same die to cut the Terra Cotta Dots paper from Lasting Impressions but mounted it at an angle. The third layer was cut with a circle die from Spellbinders using the designer paper and finally the fourth layer was cut using the next larger size of circle die on the Terra Cotta paper.

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THINKING OF THANKSGIVING

Over the next few days I will be showing you some of the Thanksgiving cards I made. I intended to post one yesterday but since I didn't get it done, you get two today. Many will be similar but just a little different layout to show how you can change the look of a card using the same supplies.

Several weeks ago I saw this fabulous sheer ribbon with the beautiful fall leaves on it after my car made that fatal left turn into Michael's. On the first card, I put the ribbon over a strip of Weathered Nutmeg paper from Lasting Impressions and then tore the right edge of the paper. Next I mounted that strip onto the Weathered Sunflower paper from Lasting Impressions. The stamped sentiment on the front is from Paper Inspirations. I love their vertical stamps and they have such a wide variety of sentiments on them.

The seond card is also made with Weathered Sunflower paper. This time I took the ribbon and mounted a piece of Snickerdoodle (off white) paper from Lasting Impressions that was the exact same width under it to give the leaves move color. On both of these cards, the ribbon was tucked under the strip of paper and fastened with tape, then attached to the card front using 3M double sided tape. The design on the second card is "Lil Turkey" from Whipper Snapper Stamps. I love their cute designs. The image was colored with my Copic CIAO markers and then cut with the Labels One die. The next two layers were also cut with the Labels One dies using the Weathered Sunflower and Weathered Nutmeg papers from Lasting Impressions.

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DAISIES ARE BLOOMING

This was really a SUPER SIMPLE card. The Buttercup Yellow plaid card stock is from Lasting Impressions. A friend of mine (thanks, Joanne!) shared some of these flowers with me. The punched Daisy punched strip is from Martha Stewart. I can use this as a Get Well, Birthday or Thinking of You whenever I need to send a card.

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