Church

okay, I think this is the last Christmas projectI will post...
I had shown my Silent Night Church to a dear friend/coworker and she loved it. soooo

I made this one for her.  I made it at 50% of the original size.

I altered a couple of things, allowing the steeple to be illuminated as well.

glitter,bells, snowflake paste and garland was used to embellish.
Merry Christmas everyone

Shake your Valentine

Hi again,
here's another Valentine card to share with you.  It's a shaker card.  I used the extra bits from our February kit to make a fun shaker card full of hearts and glittery bits.
I had a total craft fail though.  I thought the shaker part was sealed up but when I went to shake it, there was glitter and tiny beads falling out and bouncing all over my desk. ah well, nothing a little tacky glue wouldn't fix.
The outlined hearts over top of the window is a die from Memory Box. Can you spot the beaded garland embossing folder in the background?  Subtle and pretty.
thanks for taking a look. The paper is all included in the February Kit at Urban Scrapbook. You will get to see my layout for the month's kit soon.

Steampunk Couture

Hello again,

I had mentioned in a recent post that January is a busy birthday month for me. Both of my daughters birthdays and the sweet man's birthday are within 2 weeks of each other.

This is a card for my first born, who turned 22. I called it "Steampunk Couture"

I love the "feather boa" and the liquid pearls faux necklace

Hope you enjoyed the card as much as my daughter did. Thanks for stopping by.

12 days of Christmas Cards - Day 5

On the 5th day of Christmas my true love of paper gave to me - a special card that turned into a 5 hour project.

I have my "Christmas Love" board on Pinterest that is my "go to" for inspiring photos. This card uses one of my favorite pictures that links back to warrengrovegarden.blogspot.ca

I knew I wanted a lot of layers, so I used 6 copies of the picture. I started cutting and layering objects that would be in the foreground until it outgrew itself!  I liked the paper layers, but it looked ridiculous just on a card panel. That's when the 5 hour ordeal came in to play.

I cut a frame and embossed it with the Tim Holtz seasonal borders and inked it up with Iced Spruce. Next I backed the frame with acetate.

Next I had to construct a shadow box of some sort, so I measured and scored and inked and taped and cursed and drank copious amounts of coffee. The picture fit right inside the little box. Then I added  "snow" and finally glued the frame to the top of the box.

To turn it back into a card, I scored and cut a folded piece of cardstock the same size as the frame. The frame and card are about a 1/4 inch bigger than the shadow box.

I hope you liked today's card. I know my friend/coworker did. And a huge thank you to warrngrovegarden.blogspot.ca.  Your pictures are Amazing and inspirational.