triple layers :)

Oooh. There's a definite chill in the air today! While the soup's a boiling, I thought I'd share my new favorite technique~ not sure what it's called....but three white layers, stamped all at once, then separated by colored cardstock :) I used a whole lot of stamps here ( I must have over 100 snowflake stamps...well....because no two are the same, eh? ) credit to: stampin' up, inkadinkado, savvystamps, and a few others I bought unmounted and didn't keep track of the company. sorry :( Words are a muse....another northwest company :)That's all I know!

Here's how things stack up~

Snowflake Ornament

As promised, here is the ornament that will go inside the card from the previous post :) I really have used that die cut hundreds of times....guess it's one of my favorites! I used up a lot of scraps on this year's cards....another one of my *stamping goals* for the year ~ ><>

ahhhh....

It feels good to be almost finished with my Christmas cards....just need to stamp the sentiment on the inside ( which will be a Heart & Soul stamp ~ one of the new Christmas ones :) Just think about it....each card front went through the Cuttlebug twice...once for die cutting and once for embossing.....X 150 ! :) I'm going to assemble the *cut outs* into an ornament that will go inside each card....picture to follow...eventually :) The stamp is an older Penny Black one ~ it's a little hard to see but there's a tiny rhinestone in the *o*. I had a little bit of failure on some of the cards, as I 'stacked' them in a box after gluing the snowflakes on...and of course the glue stuck to the next card as well. I'm probably going to stamp & punch a tiny snowflake for the middle so the mistake doesn't show. Yes, I know that's kinda crazy....but it will bother ME if I don't :) Happy Fall y'all <3

a creative mess :)

Well this was fun! I got the idea from Pinterest (yeehaw!) and tried it for myself :) Melted the crayons with my heat gun ( actually a paint stripper....got a little too close to the top of the pumpkin....oops!) But I like it :)

a blessed day

I made this for my first born's special day today ~ his father & I are so blessed that God Handpicked us to be his earthly parents :) He's a great young man...and I tell people it's *in spite of* our parenting skills ( which, as a first born....well let's face it...we were rookies! :) So naturally, we know that God gets any & all glory :) We have an ongoing fun thing in our family ( Land Cruisers vs. jeeps ) and #1 son is temporarily on the *jeep side* ~ but we're convinced he'll come to his senses soon :) hahaha. He races one in our PNW4WDA that is teal colored, hence the fun colors of this card. If you use your imagination...that's a little fan belt on the right :) Can't recall the stamp companies, but I do know the jeep stamp was one of those really old foam mounted ones. Trust me....my Land Cruiser stamps outnumber the jeep ones 5:1 :) That's all I know ><>

we will never forget.....

A Trip to Marquette

I want to give a *shout out* to my new stamping friends in the UP ~ Hubby & I had the privilege of travelling to Marquette recently to see our daughter's new internship congregation and meet some wonderful folks who live there. We appreciated the Yooper hospitality and loved the beauty of Lake Superior ~ very much like home in the Pacific Northwest :) Thank you Marquette <3