Sunday

 A really quick 'extra' as it is finally daylight!! I love the strip cards and just had to share a couple of the slimline designs.

 Always a mess here, but soooo fun!!

                                    

 

           These are addictive. How many papers can we use???

                                            Thanks for looking!

                                                        Mary

Sunday in December

 One week to go to Christmas! For this morning, yes, it is still dark here, I will just share an oldie. This is the JOY Spellbinders die. Not sure if it was from 2019 or 2020. I do know I posted some ideas at least a year ago.

       Think I embellished these with more flowers, leaves & jewels than the other ones.

                                       

                                               

        The backgrounds are varied from designer papers to embossing folders and this last card is foiled with Pinkfresh  'abstract triangles'.

                                      Six days to Christmas!

                                        Thanks for looking!

                                                 Mary

Saturday

 One more today! Natures allure stamp makes sweet and easy card.

                                                               

Same idea, another Penny Black stamp. This is such a pretty card. Sorry about the red charger plate! It is Christmas!! This one is so like the one above. The oval cut- out with words in the center. Or the bird in the center of the circle cut out. Hope you like!

                                                  

                                       Thanks for looking!
                                                                         Mary

Saturday morning & I just noticed that I already posted the pretty cardinal cards from Memory Box. I thought about deleting the post, but they are one of my favorites so they stay a second time!

For today I will show another favorite. This is a Gemini die. And, all the dies that make it easy to make a triptych card. 

  The nativity scene dies are included as well as the sentiments. I used the Tim Holtz 'wise men' die from last year as my cover. The original card from Gemini used a lovely sponged, shaded background. I speeded (is that a word?), up the process by spraying white paint on a 12x12 sheet of navy cardstock. All the cardstock is neenah solar white, 80#. Believe me it is heavy and pricey to mail.

That is all for now..........Hopefully, no more repeats!

                                       Thanks for looking,

                                               Mary                                     

 It is after dinner now, and the last couple days have been busy. All of the Christmas cards to our family & to the 2 charities are now mailed. Yeah! Next year I am concentrating on flat cards for my family! Ha. Would like to finish about 30 more cards in the next couple days for the nursing home here. In the meantime, I would like to catch up on some of the Christmas cards I made and didn't post! 

The first in those are the bird stamp set and die from Poppy stamps or Memory Box. It is named 'The spirit of Christmas'. Really pretty.

                  I actually shouldn't wait to show the cards, as sometimes I forget what technique, color was used! Here is simply copic markers. The background is a pinkfresh stencil.
                                                      

                                               Thanks for looking!

                                        Mary

Saturday

 Good morning! Just a couple 'cute' winter cards to show you today.

                 Spellbinders little Christmas gnomie. So fun! He even has legs that move back & forth if  you want them to. Easy, except for 'glue' which can be messy. Used the package dies from the  'Girl with the packages' dies. I just haven't phographed them yet. 

                           Hope you enjoyed looking. Thanks!

                                     Mary

December 3rd!

Already December! Yes, we are getting ready for Christmas. We put both trees up early this year. I love looking at the 'lights' when there are no other lights on. See how the tree is reflected in the glass door? This is the kit/family room & this tree is all about the memories of our family. Ornaments painted by Diana & I, gift ornaments received, santas I sewed. Whew! That was a long time ago!!

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             That is our all 'gold' tree. Birds, nests, baubles, angels &   stars. It really is pretty. I purposefully added the dog on HER couch with this tree also reflected through the window! The dog, The dog, as long as we have Lucy we have excitement!

                                  So this last picture is with the lights on.
                                                                        

                                          Next post will be all about the cards!

                                                                     Thanks for looking!

                                                     Mary