Painful week and not just with the snow...

Hi everyone!

Its been such a hard time for everyone this week with the snow hasnt it?!  It took me nearly 3 hours to get into work on Tuesday and have been snowed in since Wednesday.  Luckily I can work from home though so I have been nice and warm, watching all the snow.

I have also been in quite a bit of discomfort this week as I had a nail treatment which caused me to have an alergic reaction and i ended up with blisters under my finger nails (I know, yuk!) but the worst of the pain is over now.

Anyway, heres a photo of one of the Christmas cards that I made recently.

I used one of the baubles form the Tree Trimmings stamp set to make the snowflake.  The bauble was stamped out six times in Real Red ink onto Very Vanilla cardstock and tiny drops of glue was added along with red glitter.  Once the glue was dry, I cut each one out and put to one site.

After punching out some flowers using the Boho Flowers Punch in Old Olive and Real Red cardstock, I glued the six baubles to a large Old Olive flower to help me space them evenly.  Then I put two smaller Real Red flowers on top, offsetting them. 

To finish the snowflake off I put a large brad from the Hodgepodge Hardware set in the centre and mounted the whole thing onto a die cut mat of Very Vanilla cardstock.

This was then mounted onto mats of Real Red cardstock, Old Olive Deigner Series Paper (retired) and then onto a 5" square card blank.

Hope you are coping ok with all the snow and thank you for bobing over to see my blog.

Jan

Tree Trimmings Card & Box

Hi there!

I have my New Catalogue Lunch Party this Saturday and looking forward to showing everyone how gorgeous the new products are!  And loving finally having some time this week to play!!

Here is a card and gift box made using the Tree Trimmings stamp set.  I also used the pine tree branch and cone stamp from the Autumn Days set which fits really well.

I stamped the branch & cone image at varying angles along the top of a piece of whisper white paper then used my stamp-a-ma-jig to position the strings and baubles.  I used the new glue pen on the baubles and sprinkled glitter on to give a bit of bling (by the way, the new SU glitters are awesome!).

The top of the box is decorated using six baubles, glittered, cut out and positioned in a star shape with a brad in the centre.  The box is made using instructions from Splitcoast Stampers.

Recipe:

Cardstock - Old Olive, Whisper White and Rose Red.

Stamp Sets - Tree Trimmings, Autumn Days, Season of Joy

Designer Series Paper - Old Olive

Ink - Real Red Marker

Accessories - Real Red Ribbon, Glitter, Glue Pen, brad, Large Oval, Scalloped Oval and Scalloped Border punches

Non SU - Die cutter