12 Days of Christmas

Inspired by Make It From Your Heart

When I saw this post on Make It From Your Heart I decided to use 

this idea to make my Mom her birthday present. Since my Mom

 was born on the 12th day of Christmas we wanted to celebrate it 

with twelve days of Christmas Birthday gifts... a gift for each day from 

Christmas until her birthday. The colors are inspired by the 

color challenge at Color My Heart: Ruby and New England Ivy.

12 Days of Christmas Birthday Basket

Day 1 a hand stamped paper bag wraps a loaf  of  persimmon pudding

Day 2 a cookie bag filed with Christmas cookies.

Day 3 A decorated envelope with a bookmark inside

Hugs and Kisses for day 11

Day 5 Her favorite: Red Vines

Day 7 A box of Hershey Nuggets

Day 8 A post it holder with a 2015 calendar for her purse

Day 6 A can of the yummy Party Chex mix

Day 9 A note pad to keep all those important notes

Day 4 a box of hand stamped cards

Day 6 top of can with Chex Party Mix

Day 10 A magnet saying for the refrigerator

Day 11 Hugs and Kisses

Day 12 the birthday present in a hand made box with kraft cs.

Join the fun with Ruby and New England Ivy and share with us at

Color My Heart. I'm off to make some New Years Cards with these colors.

Packaging the Money Gifts

This Year For Christmas

This year my husband and I decided to give cash for Christmas giving.

I didn't want to just but the money in a card so I  gathered up some

ideas on Pinterest. I incorporated the money with a Christmas candy treat.

Mason jar full of Christmas M & Ms with some cash inserted

in a tube in the center of the jar.

Mason jar with Christmas M & Ms, Hugs, and Kisses.

The lid has three candles, two are rolled twenty dollars bills.

Plastic water bottle filled with Christmas candies and

rolled dollar bills. To fill the bottle cut an opening in the

side of the bottle, fill with treats and money, close the opening

and cover with Christmas B&T paper. Cover lid with coordinating 

fabric and attach  with a ribbon.

A suitcase with Hershey nuggets wrapped in money.

Snowman has a twenty dollar bill scarf.

Clear box with Ghirardelli chocolates wrapped with 

twenty dollar bills. Container filled with Hugs and Kisses.

Soup can with pop top is filled with chocolates, a roll of

quarters, and some dollar bills. This gift is for my brother who

usually comes up short on parking change at the beach. Hope

this will help.To make this container cut the bottom off a

pop top can. Clean can, fill with goodies and reseal the bottom 

lid with liquid glass. Decorate the can as desired.

Nugget box with Money tree.

Happy Christmas and 

Merry New Year to you and yours.

Color Dare #122

Layered Hearts Ornament

With Cranberry, Sorbet, Olive, and New England Ivy.

Christmas colors at Color My Heart Weekly challenge.

Heart Dimensional Elements covered with Evensong B&T and layered 

together. Dangles from the tree with a button and bakers twine.

Share your Christmas creation with us at Color My Heart.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Evensong

Dimensional Elements: Hearts

Embellishments: Button, Bakers Twine, Opaque

2015 Desk Calendar

Fun with Picture My Life Cards

Picture My Life cards and Acrylic frames make these 

desk calendars for 2015 easy as 1-2-3.

1. Choose an encouragement saying from the Picture My Life cards.

2. Attach to a 4 X 6 coordinating Picture My Life card.

3. Insert into the Acrylic frame and embellish as desired.

Heartstrings PML cards embellished with rose and puffies

For Always PML cards with felt roses and puffies

Balloon Ride PML cards with Balloon Ride assortment and puffies.

So grab your favorite PML cards and make yourself a 2015 desk calendar.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Heartstrings, For Always

PML cards: Heartstrings, For Always, Balloon Ride

Embellishments: Frosted Assortment, Balloon Ride Assortment, Puffies

Other: 2015 Desk Calendar, 4 X 6 Acrylic Frame

You're the Bomb Free Gift

With the New Operation Smile Stamp Set

You can change the life of a child with just one stamp set. So during this

this season of giving you can receive a Free gift from me when you 

order this stamp set as a part of the Deal of the Decade. 

I've put together 6 gift boxes using the "You're the Bomb" stamps set. 

Each gift box has a special gift for you from the new Seasonal Expressions.

"You're the Bomb" Gift Collection

Artiste Gift box made with the new Heartstrings paper pack, Heartstrings

Picture My Life card, You're the Bomb stamp set and Pixie Twine

Artiste Gift box made with the new Heartstrings paper pack, Heartstrings

Picture My Life card, You're the Bomb stamp set, Puffies, and a gingham ribbon

Artiste gift Box made with Glacier cardstock, Hopscotch Picture My Life 

card, Flamingo Dots, You're the Bomb stamp set and Pixie Twine

Artiste gift box made with Pixie cardstock, Heartstrings Picture My 

Life card, You're the Bomb stamp set, Puffies, and a gingham ribbon.

Artiste Gift box made with the new Hopscotch paper pack, Hopscotch

Picture My Life card, You're the Bomb stamp set, Puffies, and Flaxen Twine.

Artiste Gift box made with the new Hopscotch paper pack, Hopscotch

Picture My Life card, You're the Bomb stamp set, Puffies and Flaxen Twine

Purchase this Operation Smile stamp set as a part of the Deal of the Decade

and one of the gift boxes including a special gift just for you will be yours.

Scrappy Backgrounds

Scraps of Christmas Colors

I found this background technique that works well 

with cheerful red and green Christmas colors.

1/4" strips with Ruby, Pear, and White Daisy

Art Philosophy snowflake cut at 2.75"

Left over sticker from the Holiday Treat Bag Kit

Embossed with Dotted Swiss embossing folder

3/8" strips with Ruby, Topiary, and White Daisy

Art Philosophy snowflake cut at 3"

Left over sticker from the Holiday Treat Bag Kit

Embossed with Dotted Swiss embossing folder

CTMH Supplies:

Cardstock: White Daisy, Ruby, Pear, Topiary

Embellishments: Seam Binding Ribbon, Sparkles

Blessings to You

On Thanksgiving

May the Lord bless you richly at this Thanksgiving time and 

fill your life with His grace and love.

This special card was made for me by one of my super talented 

down line Valerie. She never ceases to amaze me with 

her creativity and gracious giving attitude. Thank you Valerie.

Color Dare #120

Christmas Tags With Fall Colors

It's cold and snowy for most of the country but here in sunny 

California it's warm and sunny. I finished my fall projects last month 

and have moved on to Christmas. So the fall color challenge at 

Color My Heart works great for some Christmas tags.

Christmas tags packaged in a glassine bag.

We are currently getting ready to have our entire home re-carpeted.

So... that means packing everything and moving it out for the carpet

installers. Oh..so much work. Need to chill out and stamp but not

much time. So here you have my 10 minute tags:

Load Cricut sticky sheet with White Daisy and cut Artiste tags- 2 mins.

Load mat with scraps of Barn Red, Goldrush, Olive, & Glacier and cut tickets- 2 mins.

Stamp 4 tickets from the Yuletide Carol WOTG stamps set- 1.5 min.

Stamp Washi tape images on bottom of tags using the 5 colors- 1.5 mins.

Stamp twigs, North pole, and DEC 25 on the tags- 1 min.

Edge each tag in coordinating color and add punched tag hole- 1 min.

Attach tickets to tags with glue dots and add string- 1 min.

Clean up the mess later. Gotta go pack some more.

So grab your Barn Red, Olive, Glacier, Lagoon, and Goldrush and make

a Fall creation or Christmas Creation to share at Color My Heart.

CTMH Supplies:

Cardstock: Barn Red, Olive, Goldrush, Glacier

Stamps: Holiday Tags, Yuletide Carol WOTG, Washi Wonder

Ink: Barn Red, Olive, Goldrush, Glacier, Lagoon

No Embellishments NOvember

NO Embellishments at Heart 2 Heart

This week the challenge at Heart 2 Heart to create with 

NO embellishments.Who does that? I guess I do

 for this challenge. For my NO embellishment project I 

decided to use my Partridge & Pear Picture My Life 

4 X 6 cards as inserts in some Artfully Sent sleeve cards.

Artfully Sent sleeve page 39

Artfully Sent sleeve page 30

Artfully Sent sleeve page 15

Artfully Sent sleeve page 29

Now if you are up to the challenge of NO embellishments

I encourage you to share with us at Heart 2 Heart

CTMH Supplies:

Cardstock: Cranberry, Olive

Picture My Life Cards: Partridge & Pear

Ink: Cranberry, Olive

Embellishments: NOne

It's NO Ink Time at Heart 2 Heart

NO NOvember Challenge

Creating with NO Ink is the challenge this week at Heart 2 Heart.

So.....Stamping is out. What does that leave? Stickease, papers, 

embellishments, ribbon, Picture My Life cards, My Crush assortments...

I'd better get busy. For my Inkless creations I've made a few

Christmas tree ornaments.

Lavender snowflake cookie cutter with circle

punched stickease from 2007 Holiday wishes card kit.

The snowman is adhered in the center using a pop up spring.

Clear glass Christmas bulb filled with rolled papers from

2014 Christmas Yuletide Carol paper pack. I make these

every year with the CTMH Christmas paper featured in that year.

Layered hearts covered with Christmas papers

Star Christmas cookie cutter with circle punched Mistletoe 

stickease and rosette. The sleigh is attached to the center using 

a treat cup.To adhere paper to the back of a cookie cutter attach 

the cutter to the paper with liquid glass, let dry and cut out shape. 

So let's see what you can create with NO ink. share with us at

Heart 2 Heart. You have all month to create and share.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Mistletoe, Evensong, Yuletide Carol

Cardstock: Colonial white

Stamps: None

Ink: None

Stickease: Holiday Wishes Card Kit, Mistletoe

Embellishments:Seam Binding Ribbon, buttons, sparkles, Bakers twine

Christmas Tree Ornaments

With Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge

Cut heart box @ 5 inches. Adhere box together, fill with

Christmas images and curly ribbon. Add ribbon to hang on tree. 

Cut box on page 23 in Cricut booklet @ 4 inches. 

Emboss with your favorite embossing folder. 

Add a winter scene on the front and back of box. 

Add ribbon and string to hang on the tree.

Cut box on page 22 in Cricut booklet @ 5.5 inches.

Stamp a background on the box and adhere together.

Add a decorative star, a ribbon bow and ribbon hanger.

Cut french fry box @ 5 inches. Add some decorative paper on

the front of the box. Cut a scalloped circle from some Christmas sheet

 music and secure to the front of the box with a filigree charm. Insert a lace 

doily and a piece of Christmas music into the french fry box. 

Add a handle and it's ready to hang on the tree.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Yuletide Carol, Snowhaven, Mistletoe 

Cardstock: Glacier,  Colonial white, Champagne, New England Ivy

Stamps: Home for the Holidays, Snow Days, Universal Background, Eclectic Edges

Ink: Ruby, Black, Slate, Pacifica, Desert Sand, Glacier, Pixie

Embellishments: Brads, Sparkles, Filigree charms

Other: Assorted ribbons, Lace 

Ho Ho Ho

Santa Card at the Christmas Card Buffet

Make this fun Santa file folder card from the Artiste Cricut cartridge

at the Christmas Card Buffet. Just one of the delightful buffet

items to get your Christmas spirit jumping for joy.

CTMH Supplies:
B&T Duos: Believe
Cardstock: White Daisy, Topiary, Holiday Red
Stamps: Perfect fit-Holidays, Perfect fit-Frames, Believe WOTG
Ink: Ruby, Topiary, Sweet Leaf
Other: Seam Binding Ribbon

Remember Those Library Cards?

At the Christmas Card Buffet

Remember the Library Card Stamp Set?

Fun to use as a background for the layered stars. Also,

try putting a hemp bow behind the stars for some 

interesting dimension to your card

CTMH Supplies:
B&T Duos: Yuletide Carol
Cardstock: Colonial white
Stamps: Library Cards, Holiday Tags
Ink: ruby, New England Ivy
Embellishments: Hemp

Another Blast From the Past

At the Card Buffet

Who would have thought that the "Colors of Spring" circa 2004

could make such fun cards?

Updated with a cut out tree from Art Philosophy. The

pink dots are from the tree cut out from the card below

Updated with a cut out tree tag from Art Philosophy

and some silver glitter trim.

More Buffet cards coming tomorrow.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Color of Spring (circa 2004)

Cardstock: White Daisy, Watermelon, Clover Meadow

Stamps: Holiday Cheer

Ink: Pear

Embellishments: Silver Glitter Trim, Sparkles, Glitter Brad

Other: Gingham ribbon from stash

A Blast From the Past

At the Christmas Card Buffet

The "Deck the Halls" paper pack from 2005 

gets an update at my Christmas Card Buffet.

I'm taking this opportunity to use my retired CTMH products. 

This clear card is updated using the stamp set from the

Snowhaven Card kit and some snowflakes cut from Artbooking.

More cards will be blasting from the past all week.

So check in tomorrow for a blast from 2004.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Deck the Hall (Circa 2005)

Cardstock: Dutch Blue

Stamps: Snowhaven Card Kit

Ink: Topiary

Embellishments: Sparkles