Vintage Postcard - red

Hallo,
Brrrrr - it is COLD here this am. And windy to boot - my poor pooch wanted to go for a walk (he is an outside dog and it doesn't bother him a bit)unfortunatly combined with it being cold , I slept too late this am and need to get errands done early because I work tonight!!!
On to todays cards - I love this set from Flourishes. I finished off my Christmas cards over the weekend and this set is very easy to make quick cards that still look beautiful.
I ended up doing about 5 different color versions of this card - today I am showing you the red version :)
The base cardstock in all 4 cards waqs ran through the Cuttlebug with a texture folder - 2 of then with white core paper and then I did some sanding over the texture to make it stand out. That is a technique from Technique Junkie 's Newsletter called 'sanded coredinations'.
The rest of the card is pretty simple - plain stamping and added some matching colored flat-backed pearls and/or some ribbon and that is all.
I hope your week begins well - I need to get in gear...post office, wal-mart, best buy, office depot, the mall and a few groceries in store for me today - topping off with working tonight....
Gotta run - Take Care
Tera

sketch card

Hallo,
Its 3 am and I am awake, as is often the case on my first night off (slept after work for about 4 hours and got up for the rest of the day - was tired at 1030 but woke at 2 wide awake - loveing having the computer to play with, although I used to pick up a good book - may have to get back to that ever so often at least).
Well anyway - I thought I would show you another card I made while I was doing up cards for my Friday blog hop post.
Again I used stuff from the piles on my desk - the card base with the diaganol layers was from another project a couple months ago that I decided not to use and it worked perfectly for this card!!!
The mitten and phrase were both stamped on the thin sheet of wood from the inside bottom of an old cigar box and then cut with a Spellbinders die. The wood tends to crack a bit but these 2 pieces didn't. I wonder if the thin wood sheets you can buy from craft sites crack like that too?
All the stamps are from Gina K and I did this card for this weeks sketch challenge over at Stamp TV.
All for now - I have spent about 2 hours now blogging, surfin, wrote a couple emails.....I think I may be able to go back to sleep now (glad the DH is keeping the bed warmed up for me :)

Good night
Tera

CSS blog hop - sketch

Hallo,
Welcome to the CSS blog hop - if you have been following along then you came to me from Sharri's blog - http://istamp4u.blogspot.com/2010/12/css-sketch-challenge-hop.html

And if you haven't been you may want to as the Gina K CSS gals have alot to show you tonight!!!
And you will find that I am the end this time - last but hopefully not least :).
We were challenged to follow a sketch this time and I also challenged myself to use as much scraps and other card parts laying on my desk as possible. (card parts = stuff you made for something else that just didn't quite fit so you set it aside...)
I was on a roll once I got started this am....
This first card my oval turned into an ornament shape. The inside ornament was a 'card part', the frame was a left over piece from and ornament shape that I cut out and the gold snowflakes are using my Speelbinders dies on a gold Christmas card from last year :). An lastly the pearls that serve as an ornament hanger are left over from a swirly that I cut apart to use on other cards.


On my second card I followed the sketch a bit closer. The mitten is stamped on scrap DP and the background DP is also scrap. The frame is leftover from cutting out an oval for my last card and is cut from a thin piece of wood - which comes from the inside bottom of an old cigar box (cigar boxes being an addiction of mine :).

This last card uses the 'blank' from the large Spellbinders snowflake die (I used the snowflake on a clear ornament that is still 'in process') and I layered the oval cut from the thin cigar box wood on top after stamping and embossing the mitten with distress powder. I also cut the snowflakes from the last pieces of the thin cigar box wood and then brushed them lightly with embossing ink and embossed with silver - I wanted some of the wood to show (rustic ya know...).

I hope you all enjoyed our hop - I am hopping off to work tonight so will have to go through the hop tomorrow after a little nap....

Have a great evening!!!!

Tera

Vintage Postcard - Winter White

Hallo,
I had a flurry of white here today trying to get #1 a card done for the Winter Whire release challenge over at Flourishes - www.flourishes.org/blog/
and #2 to get the last batch of my Christmas cards made so I can get them sent tomorrow.....
I really love this new set I got from Flourishes - you'll be seeing it again in the next few days.....It is called 'Vintage Postcard' and it is so easy to work with.
I started out embossing the main image in gold and then lightly coloring it to look like watercolors. I layered it onto a white cardstock which I ran through a texture folder and added a few white flat-backed pearls.
The first one I colored the frame with light browns and the second with light greens.

Not too much else going on here - still way too cold for being in Florida....and I ran my van to the shop today as both my front windows won't go up and down and boy is that going to cost a pretty penny (the people at chevy are pretty proud of the motors for those windows I guess....)
Well going to try and finish off a couple more cards before I cook super so had better get a goin'
Take Care
Tera

Mitten tags

Hallo,
Tried to post this this am after work but I kept falling asleep while typeing - made for some strange blog content for sure :) so will try again now that I have been out in the COLD to get the kiddos from school.....and yes I know I live in Florida but it is COLD!!!! highs in the 40's lows in the mid 20's. I have had to scrape frost off my windshield 5 times in the last week - that is almost more than we usually do all winter here.....and my drivers liscense doesn't make a good ice scraper....LOL
Quick post of some Christmas tags that I made for one of the release challenges last week over at Stamp TV/Gina K. I used some double sided Christmas paper and embossed the mittens with red embossing powder. Then I cut them with the coordinating Spellbinders die - the one just larger and edged the paper with gold mettalic pen. I cut some snowflakes out of some white paper with an iridescent sparkle to it (hard to see in photo) - then added some rhinestones and some other bling I had handy, punched a hole for some ribbon and done - easy peasy....and cute too.
I went a bit wild with Christmas paper this year so I am going to try to make a bunch of tags - a bit late for this year but I figure to get a jump on next year - I plan to send everyone in my family an assortment of tags.....
All for today - have to get some super going and then will try to do finish up a bunch of my Christmas cards to send tonight on the couch....
Take Care
Tera

Rustic mittens

Hallo,
A short note - not sure how long I can stay awake this am....last night was a doozie........
I did this card for one of the challenges over at Stamp TV although now I can't remember which one....
All stamps are from Gina K - the mittens and oval phrase stamped with distress inks and the snowflake embossed with white.
Off to bed I go - one more night and then a couple off....
Have a great day!!!!
Tera

Mitten Ornament

Hallo,
A short post before I head off to bed this am. I sat in my craft room while my 'boys' watched the Husker football game saturday evening - I got a kick out of listening to the comentary from the 'peanut factory'....LOL boys and their football, although I would have rather the Huskers pulled out a win over Oklahoma too!!!
I did this ornament for one of the release challenges over at Stamp TV - 'to make a gift'. I love making Christmas ornaments but am a bit behind the power curve this year. I may not get enough made to send the family this year....
The snowflake ornament topper is a Spellbinders die - accually 2 of the snowflake dies as I used a smaller one to cut out the middle. I cut it from a blue BG paper.
The charms and the mittens on the inside of the ornament are both stamps from Gina K - I stamped them with blue ink onto shrink paper, cut them out, punched holes in the bigger ones and then shrunk them.
After I assembled the ornament - I added some stickles glitter to the paper snowflake and left it to dry over night.
All for today - sleep and back to work.....
Take Care
Tera