It always gives us a chance to reflect, remember and look
forward to a new year.
When I take the time to reflect and remember, I have to hope
that I had done “better” this last year. Better with my own family and health, faith,
finances, friends, work, and of course, with my stamping “business”.
I know each year I say I am going to focus more on my blog, but
this is an area that always seems to cause me anguish. I’m not going to spend a
great deal of time pondering over it. In fact with this post, I will have
posted one more post than I did in 2015…..so I did “better” and that makes me
happy.
Now, back to my cards and this post….the cards below were
from my November group. With just using two stamp sets from the Holiday
Catalog; Mountain Adventure and Christmas
Magic, we made three cards.
Snowman For this
card, I used the trees and snowman from the Christmas
Magic set and the sentiment is from Mountain
Adventure. I thought it was appropriate because the snowman has mittens on
his branch arms. The colors used were Marina Mist, white and black and yes the
ribbon is retired but it was just the right touch.
Bells A simple
card to make, but packs a punch. Both the bells and sentiment are from the Christmas Magic set. The bells were hand
colored and “fussy cut” Then I used Wink of Stella to give them a bit of
sparkle (hard to see in the photo). I used the Decorative Label punch for the
sentiment and colored the rhinestones with cherry cobbler markers. The DSP is This Christmas Specialty found in the
Annual Catalog and was carried over from the 2015 Holiday Catalog. The next
layer is Cherry Cobbler card stock cut out by using an old favorite of mine Top
Note. Again a retired die, but I still love it.
Mountain Scene This set is so fun and brings back memories
of days when I too hit the slopes....many, many moons ago. I am thankful that I
live in Northern California where I don’t have to live in the snow, but it is
only an hour and half away. I used the technique noted in the catalog of
placing the skis and snowboard on the same clear block to stamp the side image
of the card. For the main area of the card, I used the various stamps to make a
mountain scene. The mountains have more Wink of Stella added to them again hard
to see in the picture. This set is fun because you can add more to your own outdoor
scene with the stamps.
Additional cards and
projects
Below are some from my last swap and other cards I have recently
done. I won’t go into great detail for them but thought I would share.
Here are cards from my annual trip to Oregon, aka Girlfriend
Weekend. I thought it was fun that many of us chose to do Christmas cards this
year. I love this weekend.
This group is run by Janice Rosenthal-Rock of Bella Cosa Vintage. So I cannot take credit for the cards, but love the ladies in this group and the cards that we create or recreate.
Note and Calendar
pads I made these note/calendar pads for my office peers. You can’t see the
calendars, but they are under the image flap. These were fun to make and were
appreciated by all at the office.
So, let me wrap up this year with this last bit of
information. The year 2016 is coming to an end. Take some time to reflect,
remember and most of all look forward to 2017. I would like to think that we
won’t have any pain or sorrow, but that probably won’t be. We can, however, overcome
and grow from them and look forward to all the good times that are ahead for
us. Please be safe and joyful in the next year and of course come back and
check my posts.
Happy New Year!
