celebrate this life - PP83

I have a quick card to share with you that I am making for the Paper Players challenge.

I always have a tough time creating masculine cards so I tend to use pine trees a lot on them. Maybe because most of the guys in my life love going up to Northern Minnesota on vacation and we have lots of pine trees in the area that we go to.

Thanks for stopping by to look at my card. 

merry monday guest designer - challenge #8

Yep, you read that title right! I am this weeks guest designer over at Merry Monday.

I am really enjoying making Christmas cards knowing that by next Holiday Season I will have all my cards ready to mail out.

This weeks sketch is just wonderful and I couldn't wait to get my card made. Don't tell anyone but I had it made within two hours of receiving the sketch from Lesley. *wink*

For my card I used paper by Memory Box from the "tinsel" collection, the tree stamp is by Stampscapes, sentiment is by A Muse and twine and crystals are from my stash. I painted the tree image with acrylic paints and then stamped it.

Here is the wonderful sketch that inspired my card.

I hope you will play along with me this week over at Merry Monday. Don't forget to leave me a comment here if you play along so I can come over and check out your card.

Enjoy!

it's your day

it is cold here this morning 18 degrees so I am enjoying a nice cup of tea and enjoying the silence since the family is still sleeping.

I made this card for the challenge over at The Sweet Stop and the sketch was perfect for some masculine birthday cards I wanted to create using the new American Crafts papers "Campy Trails" that I picked up at Anchor Paper on Saturday. I just love AC's newest collections especially the fact that they have patterns on both sides now.

This last card is one of those just because ones. My niece Tammy sent me a Thank You card that was shaped like a purse and the moment I got it I knew I was going to cut it apart and make a template to recreate it.

I used Cosmo Cricket "UPcycle" paper, Spellbinders die "foilage" for the leaves, PTI flower die, and MFT rolled rose.

Enjoy!