A-7 Notecards for Christmas Gifts

Hi everyone! I hope you are all enjoying your preparations for the Christmas season. I am feeling like there isn't enough time in the day to get everything done!

These note cards are kind of like the ones I made in September except these ones are bigger with more space to write on them. A friend of mine asked if I would make a few sets for her to give as gifts to her friends. The outside of the envelopes have a small strip of coordinating paper for each card. I love how these cards and envelopes turned out. I packed each set in clear boxes to show off their beauty!

These sets use cardstock from Stampin Up and the Autumn Vine designer series paper in the holiday mini catalog. They are gorgeous papers that coordinate with the earth elements colors. They are very nice for people who appreciate fall colors.

The stamps are from Justrite. The fonts I used are: Curlz, and Special Occasions.

I probably won't be posting until after the new year so, I will wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year. Remember to give thanks for all of the blessings you have received this year and pray to be a blessing to others next year. See you all in 2009!

Large Dry-Erase Frame

I had the idea to make one of these for my kitchen. I'm always writing notes and have a million post it notes stuck around the kitchen reminding me to do this or that. I think this will cure my paper clutter!

I used a 20x9 shadow box frame from Michaels.
I knew I wanted to use a picture of my girls somewhere in the frame so I cut their picture out with my Wizard machine. I used the curved rectangles for the picture and the mat, then I used the mystic font and the flower creations set. I also used the Quickutz-Flourish for the added swirls.

The backside of the picture, "today" and "this week" have slices of pipe insulation cut to hold these mats in place. I glued them to the back of each. The frame comes with some black velcro to hold your items in the shadow box. I cut thin slices of the velcro and attached the sticky side to the pipe insulation so it would hold onto the back of the shadow box. (It is a fuzzy fabric that velcro will stick to.) I wanted to try to achieve some depth in the frame, that's why I chose the shadow box.

This paper is by Luxe and it's called "color me happy". Of course I used my COPICS to add all this color! I used BG32, BG13, BG10, B24, B34, B32, C3.

The other paper is Fance Pants Designs-Spelling.
I attached this paper with double stick tape in small amounts to the black fuzzy fabric.

This is the left side and the right side in an up-close shot to see the detail.

Below you see the whole thing. And the last picture shows that I added some Black Rhinestones from Kaiser Scrapbook. Oops! I noticed a scratch that I need to take care of with some black marker or paint!!

The other embellishments that I used were:

Stickles: Turquoise and Eucalyptus

Robins Nes: Water drops

I also used a different way to upload my pictures, it was quicker on the upload time which was very nice. How do they look when you view them on-line? Please let me know if it turned out well, or if I should go back to the old way. These were saved for web which takes a lot less megabytes, but maybe the quality of the picture suffered??

p.s. I did put some of those blue flat glass stones in the bottom of the frame..