Four Reasons for this card…

So… my friend Mary showed me some great Thanksgiving Day easel cards she was making not too long ago.  If you know Mary you know she likes the more involved, intricate type projects (remember this?) so I thought to myself, ‘must not attempt easel card.’  LOL

Well, in the last couple weeks these easel cards have started popping up everywhere in the online stamping world.  So I thought maybe I should reconsider my original thoughts on these and try something new!  And then it turned out that splitcoaststampers posted a tutorial on them and then I discovered the Crazy 4 Challenges blog posted an easel card for a challenge last week.  Of course I didn’t get my card done in time for the challenge deadline, but that’s okay.  I actually combined it with this week’s C4C Challenge of using acetate as well! 

So have you counted three reasons thus far as to why I created this card?  1) to attempt something new 2) to participate in the easel card challenge 3) to participate in the acetate challenge.  What’s number 4 you ask?  To create a project to be made at this week’s Stamp Club meeting!!  Hope my clubbers like it!!

If anyone from SU! is reading this, please don’t ever retire the ‘Lovely as a Tree’ stamp set!  It’s such a wonderfully fabulous versatile stamp set!  I white embossed the trees onto Night of Navy cardstock.  See the snowflake acetate covering the trees?  I used Frost White Shimmer Paint for the snowflakes using the new ‘Serene Snowflakes’ stamp set.  The sentiment ‘warm winter wishes’ comes from the hostess stamp set ‘The More the Merrier’ and I used the shimmer paint for that as well.  And just to add more sparkle (and a prop for the easel) I put a strip of sticky strip across the base and covered it with the Silver Glass mix beads.  That’s another product I don’t use enough!  Love how it sparkles (of course it looks better IRL, but use your imagination!) 

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about product used on this card.  Take care!

Charming, For sure!

Seriously???  That’s one word to describe the Holiday Mini this go around.  I SERIOUSLY want everything.  Everything is SERIOUSLY cute.  And just when you think there couldn’t be more good stuff, you turn the page and say: Seriously???  LOL

And here’s another SERIOUSLY? This card is made with the Charming stamp set (that goes with our new line of Simply Adorned Charms).  Gina Maginnis, a member of my SU! team created this card as her swap card at our last team meeting.  It’s made with my new BFF, Soft Suede, and the Charmed stamp set as mentioned.   Look at it, then say it with me — SERIOUSLY???  LOL!

Big Shot Envelope Tote

Look at what my Big Shot club members will be making (among other things) this week!  Isn’t it cute?  (Yes, I’m patting myself on the back!  LOL)  The tote fits 3 x 3 cards in it perfectly.  (Club members check your section of my blog later this week for full pictures and cheat sheet.)