New Christmas Cards

I haven't posted any cards for a while as I was making 60 for a friend of mine. Here they are.

Suzanne Lameraux wins Sometimes Waiting is Worthwhile Card

Congrats to Suzanne; She said "My favorite card is: Sometimes Waiting is Worthwhile.  I love the visual effect of the caterpillars turning into butterflies.  It's a great play on words and visual imagery."


She will receive the following card:

  

Congrats to Debbie Flattum

Helen won the Time Goes By card. This is what she said: 

  "Just to let you know how much I enjoyed the "Time Gone By" card.  that was my favorite.  I love this stamp set and have not used it yet because I haven't seen any examples that was truly inspiring and this one did it for me. I might case this card if you don't mind." 

Helen

Roberta Fieth-Bond Winner of Wish Big Cupcake Card

Congrats to Roberta for winning the cupcake card. She said: "Love all your cards.  My favorite is the cupcake card.  I like the card because it would be a fun way to give them a zero calorie cupcake on their birthday.  Thanks for sharing."

Congrats to Debbie Flattum

The winner of the Clown Card is Debbie Flattum. She said "You are very talented, Jennifer.  Trying to pick a favorite ONE is tough.  It's between 'Get Thee Well' and 'Clowns Make Thee Laugh'.
I am going with the Clown card, because I enjoy punch art and love the way you used the bird punch to create this card.
Thank you for sharing your talents with us and offering blog candy."

Martha Haddock is my WINNER plus more to come.....

Martha Haddock was chosen from my random number generator. This is what she says: "Oh my Goodness! I am so excited!  I NEVER win anything so this is totally awesome!  Thank you thank you thank you!"


She will win the following plus the nurse card since that was her favorite:

CONGRATS MARTHA.

Now for the other surprise for the others that entered by email. There were 3 who liked the Wish Big Cup Cake, 26 who liked the Clown laughter, 6 who like Time gone by and 4 Waiting is worthwile. No one like Go in the directions of your dreams.....lol...... but I really didn't like it that much either. Most liked the above card. 

I will chose one person by the random number generator for each card and that person will win that card. I will contact you personally before it is made public on my blog.  There were about 5 who left emails but didn't tell me which card they liked and why.

The Royal Blog Tour Has Ended

The Royal Blog Tour is over and I hope you enjoyed your visit. The links will stay up for awhile so you can go to: http://www.theroyalblogtour.net/ and still see everyone's work if you need more time. I appreciate all who responded with comments. I had over 70 people email me and later today I will use the random generator to pick a number for the winner. I will contact the winner and after that, I will announce who it was and what they won. The people who left comments on my blog will be added to the other comments left and when December 1st rolls around, they will be entered in my monthly blog. Good luck everyone.

Above is a new card I did using the inlaid technique. I glued the snowflakes onto silver cardstock and then ran through the big shot using the lattice embossing folder. I then put a scrunched up real red ribbon on the bottom. I did not want to put any saying on the front. I also put rhinestones on the snowflakes.

Sick?

Here is a card I made with the new technique called "inlaid" because all the additions to the card look inlaid once you put them through the embossing folder.

I have notified by email, October's winner for the blog candy. As soon as I hear from her, I will announce who it is.

At Last, some of my creations.

I have been so busy working on my blog cards and just catching up on things at home, I have not had time to just make cards for the fun of it. Here are two that I made for Halloween. One I will give to my daughter and the other to her boyfriend. The last card is the card I received from Stampin' Up for doing the WOW demonstration at the Baltimore Regional. Don't forget about blog candy. See post below.

Regional Swap Card

Here is a very similar card I used for my swaps. Instead of the lighter green, I used Artichoke and I used gold glass glitter instead of silver and I used dazzling diamonds around the merry christmas in read instead of color. As soon as I can, I will post the cards I received from the swaps.

Baltimore Regional and my Weekend

I am still recovering from a very busy week and weekend. My DH and I left Thursday night for Baltimore and being from a town that has no fast food stores and only one stop light, my DH was ready to have a nervous breakdown by the time we found our hotel. It was poring down rain and dark by the time we had traveled our 3 hours. I had to be at the Convention Center by 7:30 to meet Carrie so she could get our tables ready for our WOW demonstrations and get tips from the camera man. It was kinda nice not having to wait in line. The demo went fine and since I was the second person who presented a WOW demo. I demonstrated how to do Paper Beads using our DSP paper and had three examples.

A lot of people who knew of me but didn't know what I looked like, came up and introduced themselves. It was really nice to put a face to a name. As always, the boards were full of great cards.

 After the seminar, my DH and I met up with Ilina Crouse.

 It was great to meet her and she was doing a WOW on Saturday. 

Then DH and I went to dinner to wait for the traffic to die down before the trek home. We got home around 10 pm and I had to do a few things to get ready for the craft fair I was doing the next day. We had to set up around 7:30 am. I had a pretty successful day (not as much as last year though) and then had to take everything down at 4 pm and then we had to get ready to go out. We traveled again about an hour and half to Richmond to see Hal Holbrook doing Mark Twain. He was incredible and more incredible, is the fact that he has been doing this for 30 years and he is now 85. Today, Sunday was my day of rest. I am getting ready to go to bed and begin a new week. 

Now I begin to make my projects for the Royal Blog Tour. Busy, Busy, Busy...... But love it!

* Christmas Cards

I remade my door card. It now looks like my front door from the inside. One of the cards you may notice very old (from at least two years ago) DSP paper. I am using this up to make cards to sell at the craft fair. But notice the paper beads I made from the DSP paper. Aren't they cute? You will see more of them on current stuff. The last card is the Christmas Collage. I may use them for a swap I am in but haven't decided yet.

Jean contacted me last night was very excited to be the winner of the blog candy. It is on its way today. Everyone else, keep trying.

Simply Scrappin

This card was used with the Christmas Simply Scrappin Set from Stampin' Up. I added our new cloth by gathering it and glueing it to the card.

Christmas items

I was looking for a tissue box cover and found only one but it wasn't exactly what I wanted, so I ended up making my own. I love these because they can be changed out for the different holidays or seasons. The card I made is a combination of two cards I saw, one with a wreath and one with a door. I realize now that the wreath should have been smaller and the door thinner but I will make that change next card I make. That card was all punch art.

Punch Art Swap Card

This is a card I did for a punch art swap I am in.

Pierre the Amour Owl

Using the Owl Punch, I made a Frenchman. Put the Newsprint DSP and Amour with it you have Amour Owl.

Christmas Again

Here is a Christmas Card made just from the DSP and a punch and ribbon.

Card Art

Lynn Pratt made some wonderful cards that you can buy the tutorial for. They are a school bus, police car and fire engine. She also had a modification for the school bus to make a jeep. I have not made the police car yet but I did make the others. Our fire department is voluntary and I thought it would be a good card to send to them thanking them for their dedication. The school bus would be good for a child to give the school bus driver on the first day of school and the jeep was just a good masculine card.

Christmas Again

Here is another Christmas Card I did. I love the new Christmas DSP and the glass glitter. I hope that stays around and it would be nice to have a crystal one. When I scanned the card, some of the glitter came off ( you will see where) cause it isn't supposed to be there.. Enjoy and have a good day.