Too Cute!!!

I just had to share this gift that my DD made for me. She knows I frequently carry fruit with me, so she knitted this fruit-cozy for me to protect it from getting banged around in my purse. It's about the cutest stinkin' thing I've seen in a long time, and it tickles my funny bone every time I look at it! Thank you, Shawn, sweetie! I love it!!!

Post Christmas

The Christmas rush is over for another year, and I'm always kind of sad to see it go. I really love the holidays. Here are the last few Christmas cards. I'm too wiped out to post the recipe for them, but you get the idea of the spectrum they cover, from humorous to "the reason for the season". ;-)

Now it's time to clean my disaster-area of a craft room and start the cards for my stampin' club swap in one week!

Santa brought me a BigShot for Christmas, so I may have to give it a test drive, too, LOL.

More Christmas...

I really love the way this card turned out! I used the DT Monday Challenge *6* from the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Blog. The challenge was to do distressing/vintage on the card. It didn't have to be a holiday card, but since I'm so far behind, I made six of them to send out. :-D

This beautiful image, called "Lizzie with Muff", is from Whiff of Joy Stamps.

She was stamped with Brilliance Graphite Black ink on SU Very Vanilla CS and colored with Copic markers. Stickles was used to accent her headband and the designs on her dress, as well as the ribbons hanging from the puffs on her boots. Her earmuffs, muff and the puffs on the boots were "puffed up" with Marvy Liquid Applique. That stuff is so cool! It's like magic when you hit it with the heat gun (after letting it dry thoroughly, of course). Instant dimension!!!

Anyhoo, Lizzie was cut out and embossed with a Nestabilities Long Rectangle die, and mounted on SU Riding Hood Red CS cut/embossed with the Nesties Long Scalloped Rectangle. The patterned paper is from Anna Griffin, edged with SU Close to Cocoa ink and mounted on more Riding Hood Red CS.

The sentiment (from Inkadinkado's "Warm Holiday Wishes" set) was inked with SU Ruby Red Craft ink on Very Vanilla CS and cut with, you guessed it...a Nesties Scalloped Oval die, then edged with more of the same color.

The pointsettia was a gift from my BFF Barb and the gold fern leaves were cut from a large pick from City Lights, a delightful store dedicated to all things Christmas. I saw it and knew I could use it in card-making!!!

I added a little gold organdy ribbon, courtesy of Michael's, and the card was complete.