I needed a trigger!

Hi everyone! It's been quite a while since I posted and I can honestly say that I am glad that November has past! I finished working on November 1st and have been quite busy with some household chores and my annual big card order. That took longer than anticipated (I say that every year) but 650 cards is a lot! I need to get busy and make mine now ;)

The Tuesday Trigger on the MoxieFab blog really did the job on triggering me to make this very simple card. Love that blog!

I love this colour combo and may end up using it for my very own Christmas cards. To make this one I first cut my cream card stock and an extra panel to emboss with a new to me CB folder. It is called Damask and it comes with a die cut frame. I haven't tried the frame yet...but I really like the look of the Damask design on the cream colour. I cut it smaller and placed it on a berry coloured Bazzil textured A2 panel. On top of this I added another panel I made from the same CS that I used the new MS holly border punch on both sides. I then cut a panel of this cute Mistletoe Cardinal patterned paper to place in the center of the berry Bazzil. I love cream and red together! For the sentiment I used a PTI stamp from the Holiday Tags set and I cut this out with the Spellbinders Blossom die. I cut another larger one with the Bazzil berry and layered with dimensionals. I then added my little flourish that I made with 2 other MS punches (holly and branch

and added the discarded punched red holly leaves from the border to replicate the berry part of this little swag flourish).

I like how it turned out and I think it looks elegant, even though it was so simple to create! Thanks for taking a peek. I will be posting on a more regular basis now that I have more free time:)

Chriss

Chocolate books coming out the W@$**

Here are some of the books I have been making for the last show I am participating in this year. The show was Thursday and Friday and was not as successful as my other show, but the group of vendors there were such fun!

I love these pics showing all the bows lined up. As you can see, I made a lot of these chocolate packets and I do have quite a few left over, but I am thinking that they will make nice additions to gifts.

Thanks for taking a peek today,

cheers,

Chriss

I am looking forward to spending more time with my family now that I am unemployed and I will be relieved when my housework chores have been caught up with!

Catching up!

Hello everyone! It's been quite a while since I have been able to post anything...I have 2 days left to work at Smith and Hawken and then our doors will be closed after 16 years at that location. I have worked there for 6+ years. It has been a sad time for me and my fellow colleagues, but we are ready to move onto the next chapter in our lives, whatever that may be.

I thought I would show you a couple of pictures taken last week (before I packed these into boxes) of the goods that I made for my show at a little country club. I made a lot of my chocolate books and almost sold out! That is a first and it felt really good to not have to pack a lot of it back up and take home. This is the Halloween side of the seed rack that I purchased and the next pic is the other Christmas side. I counted 154 little "books" and only came back with 30 of them!
Here is the Christmas side. It looked really good all filled up and I striped the product vertically. This rack seems like it was made especially for these little chocolate books. My customers at the show even noticed the new rack. I also made some calendars and cards, of course. People are buying and appreciating hand-made cards!

I just found out an hour ago that I have been accepted into another show on the 11th and 12th. I am thrilled, but also have to make a ton 'o stuff...

Thanks for checking in!

Chriss

Some new calendars

Here are some calendars I have been working on for a craft fair that I will be at this coming Saturday.  My favourite one is this first one made with these oh so pretty Cosmo Cricket Early Bird papers.  I really love this little mini deck of goodness!  I used an EK Success wavy border punch and a MS loop punch.  I like how they look layered together.  This next pink one is made with K and Co. Wild Raspberry pack and these are really nice papers too.  I used a nice narrow lucsious velvet ribbon with this one.

The other two are made with the Sabrina line from MM and I like the pink and black combo.  I used some PaperTrey buttons with this one and threaded with embroidery thread ion a darker pink shade.  The next pink one is also from the same paper pack and I used some MS border punches and some cute Sabrina flower brads and clear rhinestones.  Thanks for taking a peek today and have a wonderful Sunday!

Th

Time to blossom

Hello everyone!  Hope everyone has had a good week and a good Saturday.  I have been busy crafting cards for a craft show I will be a vendor at in less than 2 weeks!  I have to get quicker at making cards and gifties.  I did take time out yesterday to make this card for Julee's Mojo 107 sketch challenge and contest.  I chose the Plain Jane quote as the focal point and stamped it in Memento London Fog ink onto white.  I used my Nestabilitiy circles and scallops to cut and emboss.  I also used the Verve image from Budding Blossoms in the left hand panel that I stamped in Always Artichoke and coloured with Copic makers to match the dp that I used from PaperTrey Ink (Tiny Vines) and a dp from Memory Box for the side rectangular panels (Rhubarb Tart) that I think is a very nice compliment to the vines dp.  I backed everything in PTI Ocean Tides card stock (this is my favourite colour ever!) and also punched out a new MS loop border that I think has an elegant style and matches with the overall feel I wanted for this card. (Thanks Yvonne for finding these oh so hard to get new border punches!)  Over the border, I placed a length of PTI ribbon too.  Thanks for looking and hope you have a great evening!

Cheers, Chriss

recipe

stamps ~  Verve PJ sentiment and Budding Blossoms

ink ~ Memento London Fog

paper ~ PTI Little Vines, PTI Ocean Tides cs, MemoryBox Rhubarb

access. ~ Copic markers, circle, oval Nestabilities, MS loop border punch, K & Co. half pearls, PTI Ocean tides ribbon

PTI Australia challenge

Nichole's 4th challenge was to make a card that was Australian inspired.  Nichole spoke of masking and Aboriginal drawings and how they were typically outlined.  I chose this turtle from an older SU set and stamped in Versamark and then embossed with verdigris powder.  Love this rustic effect and colour.  I then outlined with a marker and also filled in some areas amongst the dashes with a Copic marker.  I like the different textures, but don't know if it truly exemplifies the Aboriginal "effect" that I was hoping to create.  Oh well, I think the image looks "hieroglyphic" and could possibly pass?

Thanks for looking!

Sparkly and glittery

Hi everyone!  I have a few more cards to share with you from the week-end's WCMD celebration.  This one was a challenge from Julia Stainton over on Ellen Hutson's The ClassRoom, challenge 4.  We were to "glitz" up our trees, paper, holiday images.  I do not use glitter very much, but I sure had fun creating this card and I am glittering right now.  The papers from the Cosmo Cricket "Jolly by Golly" 6 X 6 pack inspired the colour combo that I chose to create with.  I stamped my trees from Impression Obbsession in basic gray ink and coloured, added rhinestones and glitter to a few of them (after cutting them out) and just went to town but in a tasteful way I hope!  I liked how this turned out and had it not been for this challenge issued by Julia S., I probably would not have created anything this fun with glitter.  Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by!

Chriss