Let It Snow...really??

Am I nuts?  It's the middle of the summer and I am thinking of snow!!!   Wake me up from this nightmare.....not so quick surfer dudes and dudettes!  I loved making this card!  I used a Penny Black stamp set called Let It Snow.  I stamped most of these images with staz on mostly because the other ink companies I have did not produce a good quality image....so not impressed!  

I actually did this as a challenge for the blog: Christmas card challenge.  

I used Stampin ups Not Quite Navy as the base; which, I then embossed snowflakes for creating my own 

background.  Then I stamped and coloured in the images.  I matted the sentiment as it seemed to help it "pop" on 

The snowmans' hand.  I ripped some white cardstock and rubbed some basic grey from Stampin up on the frayed

 top.  I hope you have a cheerific kinda day

Cheers

T

Gift Card Holders

This project was not only fun but super easy! I loved that the cards were just a few minutes to make and the water coloring was a fun evening activity. I used some images from stampin up turtle and co. And their Little friends collection. I also used an image (boy with balloon) from Penny Black. This idea came from a utube video from Kristina Werner (she totally rocks)!

When they are opened some have twine to keep them closed while others have double sided tape to peel off once a card is placed inside. I used the tiny attacher from Tim Holtz to securely keep the sides attached. As Kristina noted they would fit quite easily inside a card to dress up the occasion. With Easter, Graduation, Mothers and Father's Day all approaching it is an easy solution to a gift idea!

Cheers to all!