Holiday Style

Hi dear crafty friends!
I'm taking an online class called Holiday Style, and enjoying every minute of it!
I'm always slow with the homework, but as I didn't work today, I had some time to play with my inks and stamps, and I want to share my card with you all, (I imagine most of us are frantically creating Christmas cards).
So, on day 2 of class the teachers gave us lots of beautiful inspiration on clean and simple cards. Mine was inspired by this  card by Kristina Werner.

So here you have it. If I have to make this card again I would use a white or silver embossing powder for the sentiment to create a better contrast. I used distress inks for the background and then spritzed water with perfect pearls and it gave a beautiful shimmer to it. The sentiment is by Stampin Up! and the main image is by Stampendous.
Thanks for visiting, have a blessed rest of the week.

More Share Handmade Kindness

Hi there Crafty friends!
I hope you had a wonderful weekend!  Mine was great!
I just want to share two more cards I made last week for friends that have birthdays one on the 6th and the other on the 12th and are part of the Share Handmade Kindness Challenge.

Both cards were already sent. The cardstocks, stamps and punch are Stampin Up!  Thanks for visiting.
Have a blessed week.

Share Handmade Kindness

Hi there crafty friends!
Both of my stepdaughters have birthdays this month, in fact, for 20 days every year they are the same age! So I want to share today the card I made for the youngest one, whose birthday is today!
I'm also sharing this cards at Jennifer McGuire's blog as part of her campaign Share Handmade Kindness.

The flower is Holiday Poinsettia and the sentiment is from the set Birthday Messages both  by Simon Says Stamps.
Thanks for you visit and have a blessed day.

Giveaway Winner!!!

Hi there crafty friends!
Short and sweet post to announce the winner of my blog candy.
Of 27 comments until midnight Saturday, Mr Ramdon.Org determined that  the winner was number 6 AJ BODINE! Yay!
Congratulatios AJ! (I left a message on Google +), please e mail me you address.
And thanks to all of you for your sweet comments!
Have a blessed week!

Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello there crafty friends!
I want to share a card I made for the Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, although the party has started on Friday, and today is Wednesday, I don't want to miss it!
I had a lot of fun visiting so many blogs in the past few days.
Here is my card.

The background paper is by Lawn Fawn, the coffee cup is by My Favorite Things and the sentiment by Hero Arts.
As a thank you to our awesome crafty community I'm giving away a $ 15 Starbucks gift certificate, you have time to leave your comments until midnight Saturday, I'll post the winner on Sunday.
Thank you for visiting and have a blessed rest of the week.

ETA I'm also adding this to Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge "Anything goes"

Sending Love and Prayers

Hi there sweet crafty friends!
I have a colorful card to share today. I took a wonderful class at Online Card Classes, called "Exploring Mediums". As usual, I'm behind with my homework, so today I'm using Zig Clean Color real brush markers, which we "explore" on Day 1.
I used the sketch by CAS(E) this Sketch and the Butterfly Drift die by Simon Says Stamps, I colored the inside of the butterflies with the markers in rainbow order and them embossed the border of the die with silver embossing powder.  For the sentiment a used the Sending die by SSS and then embossed it with the same embossing powder, for the love and prayers part of the sentiment I  used my Brother label maker. (I wanted to use those words but for unknown reasons my stamp doesn't stamp all the letters?).

And that's all from me for today. Have a blessed rest of the week and I hope to see you all soon.

NBUS - Happy Birthday!

Hello crafty friends! I hope you are enjoying your weekend.
I had lots of fun today, I finally had time to make 2 cards for my coworkers who have birthdays this month.
I used new (to me) dies from Simon Says Stamps and Cole's ABC by Lawn Fawn, so I'm entering this in my bloggie friend Darnell's challenge NBUS # 5. 

 ^{So here is my card}

It's over sized because 12 of us are writing messages for her.

I'm also joining Seize the birthday challenge. 

I'll be back later in the week to share my other card. Have a blessed week!

Loly