Christmas Time Is Here....

 

Yep its that time of year again!  I titled my post from a line of one of my favorite Christmas songs from Charlie Brown Christmas...LOVE that special...Linus always pulls at my heart strings when he reminds us of what Christmas is all about...I wanted to make something to give as a hostess gift for the Christmas party this year...I usually take an ornament but I thought of something a bit different to try...You can use the Michaels coupons to save on the items you purchase...They have these cute white lanterns in the Wedding section of the store and I like to put one out at Christmas on the table next to my centerpiece and light it up....On this hostess gift I filled the lantern with Hershey Kisses and came up with the poem you see printed out...Once the kisses are all gone they put in a tea light (I purchased a battery operated one so the top doesnt get too hot and it wont effect the poinsettia I attached)...I added an extra tea light inside the box...Click on the photo to enlarge and read the poem that will go inside the box...I hope you are having a great Christmas Time....Now you know I have to add this video! 

Halloween CAS Style...

Hi!  Hope you are doing great this week and keeping warm...Its getting chilly in the Sunshine State...I wanted to share a CAS Style card with you today using Halloween as my inspiration...Isnt this cute kitty fun?  You cant see in the photo but part of the image was cut out and popped up for dimension and I added some black and orange baubles for interest...Thanks so much for stopping by today...Happy Halloween!
Supplies: Cat and Pumpkin Penny Black, Papers by Target, SU and Recollections, Baubles and Pop Dots by Recollections

Post for Penny...

Todays post is dedicated to Penny!  We both love the cute 3-D embellishements that Recollections has out especially during the holidays...And we really love it when they are on sale!  I had some Halloween paper in my stash that I thought went well with these cute owls who are dressed and ready to go Trick or Treating....Simple and Fast...my favorite kind of card...And thanks to Penny for always stopping by to give me such kind words....I really appreciate you!!  Have a great day....
Supplies:  Embellishments by Recollections, Papers by SU and Target and Pop Dots by Recollections

Trick or Treat Time...

Long time since I last posted and its almost time for Trick or Treat!  I dug into my Halloween stash and found some great punch outs my Aunt Lori sent me...Crooked fences and bats and boos! Lots of Orange and Black Baubles too (hey that rhymes)...I even found some old papers from Targets dollar spot to use on this card....I LOVE this cute little mouse on its way to get some treats....Anyone else out there having fun making some cards for Halloween?  Feel free to leave a link under the comments section if you like...Have a great week!! Thanks for stopping by...
Supplies:  Papers by Target, SU and Recollections, Punches by Martha Stewart, Baubles by Recollections, Penny Black Stamp

Paper Stack Card

Hi!  Hope you are having a great week so far!  I don't know about you but I have several designer packs of paper and sometimes I don't get around to using them especially if they are fancy ones since I tend to do alot of whimsy stuff...So I decided to get them out and use them...I ended up using the paper itself as the focus and cut and popped out the butterfly to give it dimension...Some bling was added and I matted the image and coordinated papers were also added...Then a pretty satin black ribbon and I was done...No stamping or coloring involved...And I used up some papers out of my stack...I ended up making a few for the shop....I hope you like it...Thanks for stopping by today...Have a great weekend...
Supplies:  Designer Paper Stack by DCWV, Paper by SU, Bling, Ribbon by Offray and Pop Dots by SU

Pretty Papers and Butterflys...

Happy Tuesday!  Looking through my stuff I decided I really need to start using some of this designer paper...I tend to make cutesy, whimsy stuff and I consider this style "foo foo"...fancy....but I need to break away and use it....so I decided to just make the paper speak for itself....This paper was in one of those DCWV small stacks and I just cut it down and layered it and added some butterflys that I punched out using the Martha Stewart punch and then added some tiny pearls...Pop Dots were used to give dimension to the layers...You cant see in the photo but the paper has a bit of sparkle on the flowery part of it...Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Supplies:  Papers by DCWV and Recollections, Pop Dots and Pearls by Recollections

Hound Dog

Hi!  Hope you are all doing great today...Summer is going by so fast!  Its been so nice to get back into posting again on the blog and over at SCS....Today's challenge was to be inspired by music so I used this cute stamp by Penny Black for my cards entitled "Hound Dog" which is by one of my favorite singers Elvis Presley!  I stamped the image twice so I could cut out and pop up different parts for dimension....The scarf, the cute doggies head and his dog bone....I found a brad in my stash that went perfect with the red and white polka dot paper...Don't you love when that happens?  Thanks so much for stopping by and if you get a chance go over to SCS and play the challenge for today...here's the link!

Supplies: Penny Black Stamp, Papers by Recollections and MM, Ribbon by Offray, Copics and Pop Dots


Now you know I have to post some Elvis doing Hound Dog!