My First Christmas Tag!

While blurfing, I always love the tags that stampers put so much work into. But when it comes to making them, I'm reluctant to put so much into something headed to the trash! This year, though, as belts are tightened all around, the packaging is going to mean so much more on each gift. So here you go, my first official Tag creation. Thanks, Angel, for posting the Christmas challenge!
The dp is Making Memories from Target (a travel themed pad), and the ribbons are from my stash, but could be SU! The trees are stamped in Always Artichoke using Kitchen Sink Stamps Peaceful Christmas, and are embossed with silver. Everything is distressed - edges of paper are sanded, roughed up with the edge distressor and inked with silver ink. I even took sanding paper to the embossing to make it look a little less perfect.

Be sure to visit Angel's blog to join in the fun of the 18 Rainbow Days of Angelosity! Thanks for looking!

Who Else is Tired of Christmas Cards?

This is not the first year for me to send out homemade Christmas cards, but this year was the most difficult. I think the problem was that I have too many stamps now! Seriously, in the past, I didn't have the collection I have now, so was limited to which images to use. This year, I have stepped up the shopping for supplies and never settled on one design for cards. As a result, I will be sending a hodgepodge of 40 cards, with about 20 different designs! No wonder my stamping brain is tired...

Here are a few of the last designs. I am addressing cards tonight during the Survivor finale (I'm rooting for Denise, the Lunch Lady, how about you?) and will mail them tomorrow. Luckily I work across the street from the post office and don't have to make a special trip :)

This weekend, my girlfriend and her daughter came over for a cookie-baking fest. It proved a little too much stimulation for ds, who ended up throwing a tantrum. When dh took him into a corner to speak to him and try to calm him down, he threw his head back and smacked into the door hinge. Soooo off to the ER we went and he now has his first stitches!

I think I'll be glad when January is here and we can settle back into our routine. DS thrives on routine and not that we shelter him, but it's easier to keep him on track if he knows what to expect and what is expected of him! Ahhhhhhhhh, Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone had a nice weekend, and those in the snow belt are safe and warm. My counter is creeping up on 2000 hits so there will be some pre-Christmas blog candy coming up later this week. And I promise, I won't be giving away my leftover Christmas scraps :)

Thanks for looking!

Playful Christmas Card

I made this card using the Kitchen Sink Stamps Playful Christmas set that I won from Becky. It is such a fun set! Go and get yourself some! I used a red base that I scored and sanded to distress a bit. Then I randomly stamped snowflakes (from Winter Wonder by Verve Visual) in Brilliance Moonlight White. The center panel is stamped in Real Red, Garden Green and YoYo Yellow using the circle patterned tree stamp. The focal image is the solid tree stamp in Garden Green, two of which are overstamped with silver and yellow. The snowflake was stamped and then glittered, the star is from Winter Wonder also. The sentiment is from KSS, in Garden Green, with glitter applied to glue pen dots for sparkle. The yellow and green panel layers are scraps that I had in my basket.

Oh, the sketch is from SCS SC149 .

Thanks for looking!