On the next day...

One of my favorites for this year. It's a combo of Lawn Fawn and their Pop Up Set as well as an older Hero Arts kit. 

I love making unusual cards and taking a non-traditional take on dies. For instance the Ren Fair type dies really don't scream Christmas until you give them a red, green, and yellow Christmas scheme and put them in beautiful sparkly snow. 

The only issue is that I think my base paper is to heavy of a weight. It really struggled to not pop at the seams. I will have to try this one again with a lower weight of white paper. I absolutely love the dragon though he has an acetate stem to make it appear as though he is flying.

Although the colors say Christmas they are also my favorite hockey team colors! Go Minnesota Wild!

December is Coming!

 Everyday I get a little bit better and better! I can sit for more than 40 minutes now in a row and I've been swimming everyday to help my back get stronger. I wish I could do it all the Instagram, Facebook, and a Blog but that's just not been a reasonable goal. I miss my blog already! I might start posting my cards with a little less technical photos to help until I am fully back to normal.

How about this lovely winter card to jump start the last couple days before December. We had our first snow here in Minnesota. It was just a dusting but it was lovely and festive right after our Christmas concert we went to on the 26th.

This absolutely stunning set is from the Hero Arts October kit. I just can't get enough of this kit I've made so many cards with it. It's just such a beautiful beautiful card setting. The lights were a little bulky. I'm going to use up what I have they are Tim Holtz lights, but then I plan to completely only use Chibitronics. I will definitely do some pictures for Chibi. They are AMAZING and so much fun to use and super easy!!

Pumpkin Season - Healing and Recovery

 I know everyone is posting away on those Christmas Cards, but I haven't posted any of my Thanksgiving cards!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE Thanksgiving it's our favorite holiday in our home. No gifts, just food, family, and friends. When we lived back in Washington we used to host a huge Friendsgiving and it was spectacular. 

I apologize for a lack of posts lately. I injured my back and it has been taking a while to gain stamina sitting for very long. This makes typing and blogs very challenging and I've been a bit exhausted during the healing process. I am almost back to normal though.

So let's start my November off with pumpkins! 

I have a whole series of these cards actually. I just took distress sprays and went to town on some paper, embossed a pumpkin stamp and fussy cut away! I wanted to add some dimension though so a lot of the pumpkins have different added elements, this one is kitchen twine. I really like the way it helps cut the background up a little. I also embossed the background with the Tim Holtz Dandelion Embossing Folder. I love have multiple elements going on in my cards. 

Hopefully won't be such a big break between my next post!