Doing some Christmas Cards ...

Yes, it's getting close so I need to get more made ...

You can't see the 3 Wisemen very well in the photo but they do show up in real life, the gold is a gold leaf layer on 4" double-sided tape with the stencil then you take the stencil off and add loose glitter to stick to the rest of the tape add the diecut over that ...

I think it's time to make some cards ...

These I can use for Birthday, Get Well, Thank You, Just Because .... I need more of this type since my supply is running low ....

I forgot to mention that the backgrounds are made with the Distressed Oxide Inks, kind of fun to work with ...

Fifth Altered Book in this RR

Her theme was "Pocket full of" ... whatever you wanted ... mine are flowers and butterflies ...

Second Book in RR

ok I have now finished book 2 of this Round Robin ... the theme was "Face Off" but not as extreme as the TV program ...

This one is Mother Nature and her Fairy helpers - my drawn faces

This one is Beauty in Simplicity - done with Tim Holtz crayons and Inks

Catch up Post

Gee it's been quite a while since I posted so guess I will do several photo's of projects today ... I will start with the spoon flower with fork stamens ... using the blow torch and shaping the white spoons and fork then I used Tim Holtz Alcohol ink to color the stamens ... all glued to a canning lid ...

and some of the cards I did back before the previous posts ... 

French knot flowers

just fun colorful card

Printed on canvas then sewn on to gel mediumed and phone book pulled paper

Last of the Christmas cards

These are for our grands ...

Working on Christmas Cards

these are some of the ones I am doing ... somethings are scraps and something are new ... I like using what I have laying around on my work table when I get into my Holiday stuff and deciding on what different things I can do with them .... oops the gold embossed ornaments and the winter white pearl embossed ornament are new thing not scraps ... sorry I thought I had only the scrap cards in this bunch ...

Starting Christmas Cards

it's been very difficult for me to get started on my cards this year but here are a few and maybe I now that I have started I can keep it going .....

#4 in the Altered Book Round Robin

This ladies theme is "Mica", I love to work with mica in altered books but truthfully I forget to use it so this really excited me ... I immediately thought of bottles of mica holding butterflies ... and then a window into another butterfly world so this is what I came up with ....

A few more Christmas Cards

still trying to make more to send out, but life keeps getting in the way so this may be it ....

I used Martha Stewart's punch for the top and bottom borders, just a regular circle punch 5 times for the ornament and the writing embossing folder

this one was very simple the only thing is Tim Holtz tree stamp the rest is just paper 

This one is Tim's Holly stencil and Speckles stencil, I used Tea Dye Tim's ink for the branches, Barn Door ink for the berries and Forest Moss for the leaves that I put on top of Peeled Paint then the Speckles were done in denominational paste and sprinkled with glitter while it was wet to look like snow falling, the next step was to cut a frame from the green cardstock and lay it over to mimic looking out a window

This is an easel card with a mixture of Tim's Snowflake border and Deer, Sizzix Snowflake #3 die and Martha Stewart's Snowflake punch, with pleated velvet ribbon and Tim's word stick painted with white craft paint and wiped down some