Welcome, Baby!

Any day now, my nephew and his wife are expecting their first. We won't know if it's a boy or girl until it arrives which was their decision. When I was having babies in the 70's, we didn't have that option. My children have opted to wait until the baby is born to find out.

This card is a money/gift card holder and was made using the self-adhesive paper lace from Around the Corner and punches used are from the Paper Studio and Paper Shapers. I used a stiletto to punch holes in the white medallion.



This card was made with the help of the Coluzzle cutting system which made it so easy to get the edging exact.

Christmas Money Holder Card

As we usually give the children money as their Christmas presents, this year I decided to try making money holder cards.

Recycled 2007 Christmas Cards

For several years, I have tried to recycle as many cards as possible. Here are three that I made this year from last year's cards we received. The blue card is made to fit a business size (4 x 9.5 inches) envelope.

Hanging Treasure

These cards are my version of "Hanging Treasure" on page 40 of Elizabeth Moad's book, QUICK & CLEVER CHRISTMAS CARDS. I used DCWV's Glittered Winter Mat Stack and their Winter Box of Cards as the backgrounds (I split the cards in half then trimmed them down to fit) on white cards from JoAnns Craft Essentials. Unfortunately, the glitter doesn't show well when scanned into Paintbox. I also made some red cards, for a total this year of 115 cards, 75 of which I made today.

Christmas 2008 Cards

Here are some of the Christmas cards we made today at Donna's and Emily's Stampin' Up Card Gallery. Sorry, the glitter and embossing don't show up on scanned photos.

Titusville Girls' Club 2008

Here are the pages for this year's Titusville Girls' Club that was unable to meet this year because the Virginia cousins were having car problems.

Another Card Site

From time to time I plan to add to my "link list" those websites I find that are very informative about paper crafts. The Rubber Therapy site is beautiful and has many links to how-tos and examples of wonderful cards.