Another Fun Mail Day

I bought some other papercrafting related stuff the other day and it came today.

First was this paper holder. I bought a bunch of paper over the holidays when Joann's had their Die Cuts With A View paper stacks on sale. I now need to go through my old paper and decide what I'll actually use and what I should either sale or give away. I bought the paper holder because I have a feeling I'm still going to need room, regardless of getting rid of some stuff.

Next was this Provo Craft Cricut tool kit. I don't have a Cricut, but I do have a Craft Robo, which is close, except instead of cartridges, you can cut anything that you load into the Craft Robo program. This tool kit came with a bunch of stuff I'd been wanting to get for a while: a bone folder, a few tools to get stuff off the cutting pad that is sticky, a scraper to clean scraps off the cutting pad. I also like the scissors and the fact it comes in a cool little carrying kit. Makes it easier to keep track of. And Amazon had it for $10, which was nice. I also got some Cuttlebug embossing folders. I love both of the ones that have ornaments and both of the snowflake ones. The bird one and plaid one are pretty good too. The name of this set is "Winter Wonderland." When I was looking for the names of the folders I already had, the one with the hanging ornaments was one I really wanted to get. (a better picture at Joanns.com)

These are Cricut pads that will fit in my Craft Robo, since the cutting pad I have is pretty much hashed. I'm hoping that if I have new mats and the tools that I'll start using my Craft Robo again.

Lastly, I bought a 50 pack of page protectors for my 12 x 12 scrapbooks, since I'm out of them besides the few in different scrapbooks holding places.

All in all, a very fun papercraft mail day. I look forward to playing with all my new toys and not having my paper organized in stacks on my window seat.

Winter cards

I've been very, very lax in doing anything paper craft related, let alone posting about it. Yesterday I made a bunch of cards, using embellishments I got from the Die Cuts With a View Christmas and Winter Rhinestock Stack (a picture) and the Die Cuts with a View box of Embossed cards that I got a few years ago. I also added some ribbon, since most of the embellishments are tags. I also broke out my shaped paper clips. The paper stack came with tags and embellishments, two pages of the same ones. I think the cards turned out alright. Not perfect, but pretty good.

This one has hearts embossed on the background, since the text says "Some bunny loves you." I used my watercolor pencils to color the background and then used water to make it watercolor like. There were two of each embellishment but I used the other one of this one on a pocket page with the 2012 Christmas cards we received.

This one has a tag that says "Stay Cool" on it, since you can't really read it with the glare. The embossed card has a lot of friendship sayings on it. I used my metallic Prismacolor pencils on this card. The ribbon on the card I've had a long time, so not positive where I got it from, though I think I got it from JoAnn's craft store.

This tag says "Thinking of you" and I mounted it on the friendship card. I used my watercolor pencils to color the background again. This cream ribbon with the gold snowflakes came in a ribbon set my husband bought me for Christmas from Target. We were looking at their Christmas wrapping paper and I saw this ribbon and loved it, so he got it for me. It came in a three pack with 2 other ribbons. We also got another 3 pack for me. The other one of these embellishments went on the 2012 Christmas cards pocket page in my scrapbook.

These ones have a tag with a penguin that says "Celebrate good things." The ribbon on the card I've had a long time, so not positive where I got it from, though I think I got it from JoAnn's craft store. I used the watercolor pencils on this one also. There is another card that's pretty much the same, but the picture of the two of them did not turn out well. The embossed background is squares.

These tags say "Happy winter" with penguins. The background is a bunch of stripes, which I colored with my Prismacolor metallic pencils. I don't know where I got the blue snowflake ribbon from but the cream is the ribbon from Target.

These polar bears are so cute. The tags say "Thank you beary much" and I mounted them on a background with dots on it. I used the blue Prismacolor metallic colored pencil to color it. I had to borrow my son's pencil sharpener for these cards, since I couldn't find any of mine.

I'm not sure if I'll use these cards or if I'll donate them to the Operation Write Home (see their information here). I'm not sure if they take square cards, but we'll see. I sent a bunch of the ones I made previously to them, since I wasn't using them.

Cards I've made at Workshops

These cards are ones I've made at workshops when my friends have hosted parties.

This first one I made at a Close to My Heart workshop. CTMH sells acrylic, unmounted stamps. It's a winter one. Oops, just noticed that I took a picture of the card upside down.

This Halloween one was made at a Stampin' Up workshop. We used the "word window" punch (I think that's what it's called) to make the fence and cut out the window that the slider goes along. We stamped 2 of the jack-o-lanterns, mounted them on a penny in the slider window with 3d foam tape. As you move the card the jack-o-lantern slides along the window. We then punched a circle for the moon and stamped the bats and spider after assembling it. We distressed the fence by inking it with a black inkpad. This was a fun card to make.

This is the card we made at the Stampin' Up workshop I hosted. We colored the birthday cake with chalk picked up on a blender pen. It allows you to use your chalk colors but gives you more of a marker type finish instead of the usual chalk finish. The purple cardstock strip was stamped with the "Petals" jumbo wheel from the Spring 2007 catalog.

This last one my friend had made before the workshop and handed out to everyone. It was a Stampin' Up workshop.

Winter and Christmas cards

I don't have a lot of these to post right now, since I used my stash last Christmas since we had just moved (December 9th) and I hadn't had time to make any (painting our new house took FOREVER, the last week in October and the whole month of November). But here are the few I have:

This one was fun to make. I stamped the polar bear on white card stock and cut him out. I then stamped my versamark pad on white card stock, covered it with holographic embossing powder mixed with clear embossing powder (I've found the holographic doesn't work well by itself) and heat embossed it. I then tore snowbanks out of the now sparkly white card stock. I cut along the polar bear's head so he could be resting his head on the front snow bank and layered everything on gray cardstock (I have a few in a light blue also) after stamping snowflakes on the cardstock. I love the look of it.

Look, the blue one! Figured if I was taking all of the pictures again, I'd take a picture of the blue polar bear card also.

I held a Stampin' Up workshop and got this set as a hostess prize. It's called riveting. This one says "Happy Holidays" around the outer ring and has a tree in the inner ring. Used my versamark pad for the highlight on the outer ring. I had saved this silver ribbon from a Christmas present I got last year knowing I'd love to use it on cards. I mounted the one happy holidays on 3d mounting tape and hung the present charm from it.

Another one the same as the last, but this one has an ornament charm instead of the present charm.

As I was going through my various card holders getting out the cards again this morning, I found this card we were supposed to give to one of my husband's friends for Christmas last year that he never gave them. Pretty simple, but I like the look.

Danielle