Poinsettia

Hi friends.  Cooked up a storm this morning.  Did everything I could to prepare ahead of time so I can

have less to do tomorrow.  After I post this card, I am going to get the table set up for our Thanksgiving feast.  Can't wait to smell that giant bird cooking in the morning.

I made four of these cards for my friends that are coming for lunch in December.  I have a little gift bag and I have showed you the things I have made already.

 A white on white card.  5x7 base card.

Mat is embossed with Darice snowflakes embossing folder

Beautiful die is Cuttlebug, by Anna Griffin

Corners are a Paper Shapers punch run through the dotted swiss

folder.  Poinsettia is a digi colored with Copics, sprayed with

Gold Perfect Pearls mixed with water in a mini spritzer.

Some Chunky white Fran-tage EP was Sprinkled on

the flower and embossed from underneath so it doesn't blow off when you use

the heat gun.

The inside

Nordic snowflake is a Martha Stewart punch.  Die is Spellbinders

Sentiment is embossed in gold

Thanks for stopping by today.  

Enjoy Thanksgiving 

Until later......

Happy Birthday Daughter

Hi friends.  Are you busy getting ready for Thanksgiving?  I think I have been to the Grocery store everyday for a week for something I have forgotten!  Our daughter and son-in-law and two grands are coming for dinner.  I have had up to 16 people in the past when my parents used to come before they passed and we always celebrated both Canadian Thanksgiving and American Thanksgiving here with my Godparents who lived in Toronto.  I miss that big family dinner and all the activity in the house, but I am looking forward to cooking this year.

Monday was our daughters birthday and today was my husband's birthday.  I am sharing the card I made for my daughter here.

Card Recipe

White 5x7 card stock base

5x7 embossing folder

Die cut is Cuttlebug, Anna Griffin

from pink card stock, used chalks to hi-lite  flowers

Sentiment was created with a Kitchen Sink set that I

love, all of the words are separate and it's a clear set, so

it is easy to create with.

Spellbinders die for sentiment

We are going to get some snow for Thanksgiving.  My sister and her family are

traveling out of town to one of her daughter's house, so maybe I will have more

than I think for dinner if the weather turns bad!!

Thanks for stopping by today.  Until later............

Mid-Week Reminder for House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #158 My Favorite Things

We are at the midway point for the My Favorite Things Challenge # 158 at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge.  

Our Sponsors, House Mouse Designs is offering a $25 gift voucher, and Joanna Sheen is offering

a $10 gift voucher.  That's two chances to win!

For the mid-week post, I chose "girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes"

Card Recipe

6x6 white textured card stock base

designer paper is K and Company hydrangea

Spellbinders decorative ovals

 La La Land Filigree Corner Die

Blue satin ribbon

Colored with Copics

Martha Stewart Hydrangea Punch for flowers on oval

You have until Saturday, November 30th at midnight EST to join us.

We love seeing what you come up with.

Check out the other design team posts for the midweek at the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge blog.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great Monday.  Until later.........

Sue

WELCOME TO THE BUFFALO STAMPS AND STUFF MONDAY IDEA.

Wow, it's Thanksgiving week already.

Where did November go?

Today's card is an Upright Diamond Fold Card.  I love fancy fold cards.  This one was fun to make, but I had a hard time taking pictures of it.  It is hard to stand upright closed.

This is the front of the card.

This is the card opened up.

This is the card from the back opened up.

I found the tutorial for this card HERE on Split Coast Stampers.

Card Recipe

Stamp - Whipper Stamper Designs, Bountiful Thanks (AT608)

This is one stamp, I fussy cut the boy and girl and pup out and put the girl inside.

Inside Sentiment - Inkadinkado (93162-M)

Papers - Pine Green card stock for base card, All designer papers

are from the 6x6 Thanksgiving Authentique paper pack.

Colored with Copic Markers.  

Wild honey distress ink sponged around sentiment.

Images are Popped up on diamond.and inside.

If you follow the tutorial step by step, you will see how easy this card

is to make.  

Thanks for stopping in today. Have a great day.  Until later.

Little Gifts for Old friends

Hello friends.  I have been busy putting together some small gifts for four of my high school friends.  They are coming to lunch in December at my house and I wanted to give them each a few little handmade items.

The last time we met at a restaurant for lunch and I took them each six cards.  They loved them so much, I thought I would do it again.

I made a beautiful card from a picture I downloaded from the internet, it is Santa kneeling at the manger.  I have a small figurine that the hubs bought me years ago after I admired it in a jewelry store. The picture is copyrighted, so I can't show you, but it turned out so beautiful.

These are gift card/money holders.  The picture of Santa is a dear friend of our

who went to Santa School and came to our house for many Christmas Eve's when our

Grand Children were little.  It was so much fun to see their little faces when

he arrived and how they reacted with him.  It's a beautiful picture too.

These are gift tags.  Instead of putting a string on them, I have added a piece of Score Pal tape to

the back of each one so it can be stuck right on the package. They all open up and have a TO/FROM stamp inside.  I want to make a couple more for each of them and have tons of ideas running around in my head, but we will see how time goes.......never enough of it you know............

Just a quick post, thanks for having a peek and stopping by.  Until later........

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #158 My Favorite Things (from the song)

It's new challenge day at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge.  But before we get to the challenge, we would like to thank everyone who played in our last challenge, and congratulations to the winners.

Also, today, we are announcing our four new additions to the design team.  The four new folks were picked from our guest designers during the year and voted on by the entire design team.

A big welcome to our four newest design team members!

Donna Hanley

Kelly Smith

Pauline Bird

Tom 

So excited to have you joining our House Mouse DT Family.

On to this week's challenge. Our host this week is our oh so talented teamie, Sue Kment.  Sue chose the theme

My Favorite Things (from the song)

The words to the song are printed on the House Mouse blog site.

I chose:  "Snowflakes that Stay on my nose and eyelashes"

Aww, right?

Card Recipe

Stamp - St. Nick's Mouse (HMLR1057)

Die -  Spellbinder's Grand Decorative Label One

Paper - Reflections (Michael's)

Wide Gold Ribbon and bow

Colored with Copics

Snowflakes, Martha Stewart Die in blue glitter paper

Sizzix Sizlets in white glitter paper

Snow is Fran-tage Chunky White

WOW glitter embossing powder

We are proudly sponsored by:

A $25 Gift Voucher

A $10 Gift Voucher

The challenge runs through November 30th at midnight EST.

We hope you will join us for our MY FAVORITE THINGS Challenge.

We love visiting you to see what you come up with. 

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day.  Until later............

Sue

BSS MONDAY IDEA - Clean and Simple

Welcome to the Buffalo Stamps and Stuff Monday Idea.

Today's idea is a clean and simple card.

We all love our embellishments, but cards with lots of embellishments are hard to

mail and expensive too.  So with the holidays approaching, I thought we would

make a clean and simple card that you can mail with one postage stamp!

Close up of stamped image.

Finished card

Inside of card

Card Recipe

Stamps - Bella on Bauble (CL255) Wild Rose Studio

             Inside Sentiment - Stampendous, Cling Snow Brackets (CRQ146)

Die - Spellbinder's Gold Labels 4 (S5-159)

Embossing Folder - Spellbinder's M-Bossabilities (EL-014)

Border Punch inside - Martha Stewart

Green Mirror Paper

Green text weight liner paper

Flower Soft - Polar White

Gold Stickles on the stars 

Gold Cord

Colored with Copics

Card size is 5x7 inch

I stamped the image on green mirror paper with Versafine Black

then embossed with clear embossing powder.  Run a dryer sheet or embossing buddy

over the mirror paper before stamping and embossing. Cut out the ornament and

popped it up on tiny thin foam squares over the ornament on the stamped and colored image.

Placed gold Stickles on the stars and moved it around with a stylus.

Lots of texture, color and shine, without adding a lot of embellishments.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day.  Until later.............