11-15-10 Christmas Gift Cards

I made some of these last year as gifts and to sell. The are a lot of fun to make and can be as simple or elaborate to decorate. I cut them on my Cricut Expression at 5 inches using the Wild Card cartridge. Let me know what you think...

My work Secret Santa Gift 12-6-09

My Secret Santa at work loves anything to do with horses. I really hope the little book I made for her purse and the gift card holder to hold a gift card to the place she chose! The little gift card holder and envelope at cut at 6 inches on my Cricut Expression using the Wild Card cartridge.

Let me know what you think of them.

Hugs,
Sherry

6 in Gift Card and Envie made with Wild Card 12-4-09

This is just the second card I made and I forgot to include it in the previous post. I'm starting to love double sided paper and my Wild Card Cricut cartridge more and more! These are so fun to make and could be adapted to hold a 4x6 picture. I think that is what I'm going to do if I can get everyone in one area for a minute to snap one =0) I've got to get my Christmas cards done this weekend!!!!
Hugs,
Sherry

Christmas Gift Card at 5 inches 12-3-09

I've been pretty sick for the past couple weeks and had two weeks off with no creativity! Ughhhhh. Anyways. I'm starting to feel better and my mojo is with me today. Even though the gremlins seem to be at play pretty hard in my craft room. They keep hiding stuff from me, knocking stuff off my table, etc.

I made this gift card with my Cricut cartridge: Wild Card. I honestly didn't even know that was on there. I don't use my expression, my DS, or my SCAL like I should. I tend to do a lot of my stuff the old fashioned way....by hand. My NY goal is to start using all my toys more frequently.

I hope you like the gift card. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. I got the inspiration from Creations from Christina's website (link in my title, blogspot not cooperating).

Crafting with Nana Banana Oct Nov 2009

I went home for about a week and a half to be with my parents for some medical stuff they have going on. All I can say is ... enjoy every day you have with your loved ones and live every day like it is your last !!!! I am very blessed to have great parents that are my best friends too. I am thankful that I was able to take the time off from work to go an be with them. We had a lot of drs appointments but were able to squeeze in some work and fun too.

I'm excited that they are working on my mom's craft room so they can spend hours of fun in there together. Can't wait to see the pics of the room when it is done. Mom and I spent lots of time crafting and of course shopping at her insanely wonderful PA scrap stores !!!! I'm sooooooooo jealous! I'm soooooo broke from shopping =0)

Here is some of the fun stuff we did. Let me know if you have questions about anything specific =0)

10-12-09 Christmas Candles Birthday Card

Okay...this one was so much fun. I used two of my circle punches and my photo corner punch from Stampin Up, a Candle Stamp from Michaels, some gingerbread buttons from JoAnn's that I cut that backs off of, some ribbon, and of course some distress ink and glitter. I wasn't sure how this one was going to work and just kept adding and moving things around til it all seemed to fit together. I'm happy with the end result.

I think after the holidays I may have to start getting a little more specific in my details and maybe start doing some videos? I don't know....I'm kinda a haphazard scrapper....things just come together. Most often, there is no method to my madness.

Hope you like it. Let me know what you think. I think I'm gonna go ahead and get my butt to bed at a decent hour. My bp hasn't been behaving itself and I had a rough night earlier with some chest pain. Feeling better now so I promised my husband I wouldn't push it too far. Although, I'd love to finish that last card for work.

I will be a good girl and go to bed.

Hugs,
Sherry

10-11-09 Birthday Card Christmas House Mouse

This is another of my December Birthday cards for work. I just love House Mouse.
I wish I would have done a little better centering the bow.... but it looks okay. I even pulled my crimper out on this one. Haven't used that baby in a while. I really like the look it gives. I may end up adding some kind of sentiment inside too. It is looking kinda plain. Although we have a lot of people at work that have to sign it. Only two more cards to go for my December birthdays at work. I'm having a blast making all these cards and learning new techniques as I go. After I get the birthdays done I need to make my parents anniversary card. I'm on the hunt for a new type of card I have tried yet. Things the the trifold card, gate card, diamond fold, etc. Any suggestions? I want something really, really cool. I don't mind a lot of work. It will be a very special card.

Thanks for looking.
Hugs,
Sherry

10-9-09 Stampin Up Christmas Birthday Reindeer Card

Okay..this is my
last card for today.
We are getting ready to go out to eat with friends. This is the Reindeer from the Holiday LineUp set from Stampin Up that I got in 2008.

It is another birthday card for a girl at work. 3 down, 3 to go. Woo Hoo. I love when my mojo is flowing !!!

10-09-09 Stampin Up Elves Christmas Birthday Card

Okay here is a another Stampin Up stamp for ya. It goes along with the previous snowman stamp. The elves are so super cute. There is one more stamp in that set that is my favorite....the reindeer. It will be coming up next =0) These stamps are so versatile and fun to color. I think I am going to have to enter the world of Copics soon. I'm loving my Prisma pencils my parents bought me too though. Those pencils blend like "butta".....love them! (Thanks mom and dad!!!!)
I sure hope the girls like the Christmas themed birthday cards. They have been lots of fun to make. I sure like working in my new scrap room too.

Christmas Birthday Card for work 10-8-09

These stamps from Stampin Up 2008 are so much fun. I am trying to come up with some birthday cards with a winter or Christmas theme. I really like this way this card turned out. We have 6 birthdays in December and I figured I better get them done now so I can start working on my regular cards and gifts. Let me know what you think.
Hugs,
Sherry

Christmas cards for a friends son at work 9-21-09

A girl at works son made the people in his family birdhouses for Christmas. She asked if I had any stamps that would make good Christmas cards for him. She only needed 6 of them, so I whipped these together. I just LOVE House Mouse! The card bases are the packs of 10 cards that you can get at Michaels. The rest is cardstock, ribbon, etc. from my stash. They didn't take too long to do and were a lot of fun. She said they were perfect =0)

When she asked me how much I wanted for each I had no idea. I'm sooooooo horrible at that. I told her just to catch up with me later and whatever she felt was

appropriate would be fine. Any ideas girls ? How do you price your stuff?

Hugs,

Sherry