Noelle Bearing Gifts

This cute image is by. Mo's Digital Pencil Too. I love Christmas anything, and always have. When I saw this image I knew I had to have it. She is colored with prisma's and copics. I can't remember where the DP is from, but I wanted the design smaller so I cut off a piece and scanned it and resized it in my graphics program. Then printed it out. The plain cs is still leftovers from wedding invites! I used my Sizzix corner die cuts, EKSuccess snowflake punch, SU flower punch and Sizzix Snowflake die. I put beads on the flowers and painted my snowflakes with my diamond stickles. Added pearls to the centers. The inside, I used my DP again and computer generated the Tis the Season.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope everyone has a great week!

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deb

Its a Tilda...

This is Dalecarlia Tilda. One of of my favorite Tilda's. I know, you are probably totally sick of looking at these box cards, but I love making them! This one is a triple decker! Again I used matchbook boxes. I'm not kidding, I have a fruit jar filled with stick matches! I used the same method covering the boxes, but I did add brown ribbon to where they were to match up, only because not all match boxes are the same! I ran TH distressed inks around the edges. I lined the drawers and made 24 beaded knobs. I also added a little bling to the right side of the drawers.

Taped these down and went to work on the top. I didn't make this one into a card. I colored Tilda with my copics and Prisma's. I used my oval nesties and added beads to the oval and the scalloped oval. Flowers are again punched out of my SU punch and I added beads to the flowers also, I colored my center pearls with my copics. Leaves are from MS leaf punch. I used my MS border punch for the strip that runs on the left side, that you can barely see! Also used my Sizzix corner die. Added ribbon, some dangly beads and the stick pin. My beads are from my bead stash. The DP is from My Minds Eye, Laundry Line. I LOVE this paper and I'm almost out!

I also made the amulet bag. The ingredients are...beads, Kevlar thread, needle and magnifying glasses! LOL This will M's. She saw it the other day and loved it. I have a few mementos that I will put in the drawers for her.

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deb

Happy Birthday to my Reeses Pieces!

Today is my granddaughters 2nd Birthday! Happy Birthday Reese!

I love making these! I actually sold the other one! This one I made slightly different. I used the small match box's. Now I have a jar filled with stick matches! This was so much easier to do than the other one. I used chipboard for the top and bottom of the card. The chipboard was a 3 ring binder book. I used two match box's on each side. Covered them and added the bead for the knob. I put ribbon through the holes to make it look like a book. I used beads and ribbon around the flowers. The flowers were punched from my SU punch and branches from MS punch. On the inside used my nesties and JustRite stamp set. The Santa I bought a couple of years ago, its a Gunson Santa. My corner punch for the image, EKSuccess. I used my copics and prisma's to color.

My gorgeous paper is by "My Mind's Eye" called Laundry Line. I love this paper. The cs is left over from the wedding invites. Just matched perfect.

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deb

My Christmas Card box? My Christmas card? My Pretty Christmas box? Whatever it is..its finally done! Since my mojo was gone...I was doing a lot of blog hopping, trying to find something to do. I ran across this box at Kirstens Blog, and thought I would try it. I couldn't understand the directions, working in 16th's, so I adapted it my way. Even had to put out a distress call to Diana Crick!

The box is 6x6 and the top and bottom are cut out of a piece of thin cardboard. I then covered them in DP and ran my TH distressed ink around the edges. Then I made the "sleeves". This is where I ran into trouble with measurements. They are 1/15th off! LOL But after they were scored and taped together, went on to make the "drawers". Once the sleeve and drawers were made, I aligned them so each drawer front would show on 4 sides. Then I used regular scotch tape to tape the tops together so they wouldn't move, flipped them over and did the same on the other side. Glued the whole top and sat it on the 6x6 cardboard. Dried, flipped and repeat!

Then I made my card...5.5x5.5. I used a SU set that I have had for years and still one of my favorites. Ahhh, can't remember the name of it! I colored with my Prisma's and googone. The flowers were punched with my SU & MS punches. Leaves are punched from MS and EK.

I used my Sizzix corner dies for the two corners and added some small pearls to the top one.

On the inside I used my circle nesties and the sentiment is from TAC. Ribbons, buttons, floss, from my stash. Then I taped the card to the top of the box.

I didn't have any little knobs for my drawers so made some. Got out the beads from my beading days and made little pulls, work like a charm.

Thanks for stopping by, hope everyone has a great day.

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deb

Sympathy Card

One of the gals I worked with asked me to make her a Sympathy card. I very seldom make cards for anyone but me and my kids! Everyone's taste is so different and what if...she dosen't like it! UGGG!

I tried to keep the card simple, using the tri-fold. The Sympathy verse is by Paperinspirations. The DP and cs are unknown, and from my stash. The ribbon is also from the stash. I did the inside of the card also. DP on both inner panels and the lavender cs in the center. She wanted to write in the card so I left it blank. I hope she likes it!

Happy Friday Eve!

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deb

I wanted to share what my weekends consist of during the Fall/Autumn. Most of you know that hubby plays in a BluesBand. Every weekend starting the end of August through October, our weekends are so busy. This is my favorite season, so being the "groupie" that I'm NOT... tag along! Yesterday we had a Folk Festival in this gorgeous park where they played under a huge gazebo. There were about 5000 people and the temps were in the high 80's. Our summer has arrived! It was a perfect day and had so much fun. Good friends of ours have an Exchange Student from Paris who came along. I had a quick refresher of high school french! That was so interesting to sit and talk with him.

This is a pic of the band playing yesterday. There is a drummer, he is just hidden in the pic.

Next weekend, off to WI for the official Fall kick off.

Hope everyone has a great week!

"C" is for Carlie

Another cute back to school image from VCAD! This is Carlie. This card I made for Mariah, with $ again for school shopping! You know she is 8 now, and gramma just can't keep up with the latest styles! So she says!

Carlie is colored, as usual, with prisma's and copics. All paper and sentiment are from TAC.

Thats it for now! I'm off to WI..... Wine and Cheese tasting!

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deb