Silent Night

Here's another card I created with my mother in mind.  I fell in love with this stamp from heroarts.com the minute I saw it.  Thought I pair it with a little calligraphy.  

Patterned Cardstock:  Momenta pad 20469 R4

Stamps:  Winter Town (Hero Arts)

                Snowflake (Stampabilties)

                Small snowflake (Hobby Lobby)

Black Dye Ink (Tsukineko)

Watermark ink (VersaMark)

Embossing Powder:  silver and gold (American Crafts)

Fine nib calligraphy pen with black ink (Schaeffer)

Deckle scissors (Fiskars)

Gold leafing pen (Krylon)

2 small gold gemstones (The Paper Studio)  

Did the same basic design again, all in blue.  Didn't like it quite as much as I thought I might.  What do you think?

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No Peeking!

The UPS man delivered my complimentary copies last Thursday evening. I'm on page 49, but I won't even THINK of letting myself stroll through this magazine until I've finished a certain baptism garment and smocked dress!!

Christmas Red

Here are two new cards to add to my Mother's stash.  I made them both the other morning, using a pre-folded kraft card, plain white cardstock, and this antiqued red from The Paper Studio's Christmas on Amesberry Street stack.  I wanted to keep that typewriter as the focal point of the first card.

My Merry Christmas stamp is several years old, from an unknown set.  I stamped only the Merry on the first card, in black dye ink.  For the second card, I embossed it instead and punched three snowflakes to show off the white underneath.  

Now it's time for a cup of chai.

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Christmas Time's a'Comin'

I can almost believe it this morning, with a delicious nip in the air!

I wandered over to the Hero Arts Club Blog yesterday and discovered a new holiday challenge underway.  Hooray!  That's just what I need.  For my mother's birthday this year, I'd like to give her a stack of Christmas cards ready for sending.  I only have two or three so far, so I'd better get busy!

This idea happened by accident.  I'd stamped these Winter Trees from Hero Arts and had that piece lying on my desk.  Meanwhile, I die-cut an oval for another card.  I tossed aside the paper that was leftover from that oval, and it landed on top of these stamped trees.  I fell in love with that look. 

A touch of scoring and the deer on the outside of the card really set it off. 

card outside

inner layer

a touch of calligraphy inside

I'm entering this card in the "White Out" category of the Hero Arts Holiday Challenge.  

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October!

Before settling down to today's smocking, I needed to make a couple of birthday cards for a friend.  I found this quote some time ago and have been saving it to calligraph this time of year.  I wasn't sure how my pen (Shaeffer cartridge pen and ink) would write on this scrapbook paper, but it did just fine.  No puddling.  No fuzzies.

I used Inkadinkado stamps around the edges.   

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