Christmas 2010 Scrapbook

Pear Pizzazz, Perfect Plum, and Baja Breeze

About a week ago I received an email from Pals Paper Arts (www.palspaperarts.com) concerning their latest cardmaking challenge using these three Stampin' Up colors.

The two cards are different because I didn't have enough of the colors called for in the challenge to even enter. I used a different green (one with the tiny white dots is from a package of Pooch & Sweetheart Dimensional Stickers embellishments I purchased some time ago); the darker green paper with larger white dots is from a Christmas stack and was left over from making Christmas album pages for my sons' families; the blue jumbo rick rack was left over from making Little Dresses for Africa; and the little flowers were premade with the rhinestone centers. I did use Perfect Plum by Stampin' Up to stamp the sentiment on the top part of the card. I had just enough scraps to make two cards of each style.

Christmas Card #2

After the church gave out the Christmas card list of church members, I realized I needed about 10 more cards (making my total for this year 138). This is the card I decided on. I used Sizzix embossing folders for both the background and the sentiment; then I mounted the sentiment on silver posterboard and then on small squares of the cushioning from boxes of Whitman's candy. The paper was cut in 1 1/4 inch strips and wrapped with some silver fru-fru.

Today was another Christmas Card Gallery at Donna's house. All products used were from Stampin' Up.






This card was the most time consuming: cutting out the redbird, stacking the snowman, doing the two rows of 'snow', inking the background, the cutting out the twigs, the two-piece hat, three 'buttons', the nose.

Operation Write Home

Have any left over greeting cards you have made? This organization welcomes greeting cards that they will then ship to troops serving overseas. Go to the web site and check out the 'rules', then sort through your card stash, or make some new ones, and mail to the organization.

http://www.operationwritehome.org/index.html

All Occasion Card Gallery

This Christmas card was our technique project for this event. The ornament was created using the scallop edge punch, gluing it flat(!) to a small circle then sandwiching the cord between it and a medium round scallop punch. It was a little tricky getting it to lie flat but the rest was easy.



Below are the two cards Norma brought. She had made them using the heart punch and the plastic candy containers sold by Stampin' Up.

Little Dresses for Africa

These are some of the eighteen little dresses that I've made so far for the Little Dresses project. They requested that they be packaged a dozen of one size in a two-gallon zipper seal baggie.