Christmas Ornament

Hi there.  I hope your enjoying your weekend.  A sure sign of fall, when you are woken at 6 am with the sound of crows cawing - I mean hundreds of them, they swarm over the fields behind us looking for food.  They are a nuisance, we have a big issue here in Chatham with the crows, as I'm sure many of you do. It's been a gorgeous weekend here in SW Ontario, sunny and upper 50's, a typical fall day, and the same for today.  Yesterday we managed to get all our outside chores done - lawn furniture put away, flower pots all emptied and put away, gazebo put away, grass cut (hopefully for the last time), bird feeders all topped up, so bring on the fall.

Well as you know the Christmas season is fast approaching and I need to get working on my Christmas card orders- yes already have requests.  So I wanted to come up with some simple yet elegant and something that I can mass produce - do you hear me on that one! So this is what I came up with.

The ornament stamp is from Our Daily Bread and I used the Spellbinder 2010 Heirloom ornament die to cut it out.  It is embossed with gold embossing powder on cream cardstock. The layer behind the ornament is a sizzix embossing folder.  I did up several of these doing all different colours of chiffon ribbon - dark hunter green, burgundy, deep fushia, deep turquoise, and brown.  I also added a coordinating gem in the center of the ornament to match.  The ornament is popped up to give it some dimension. This was very quick to make. 

I'm going to try doing some in silver embossing powder on a white card.

I'll be back tomorrow with an Uptown Girl card - can't wait to show you.  See you then.

Have a wonderful day!
Pauline

Parisian Motif

It's Tuesday, not my usual post day, but thought I would sneak in a non-bella card for today.
I made this card a couple of weeks ago for my card basket, and managed to take a picture before I sold it.  I was really pleased with how it turned out. Simple but pretty.

I stamped the image from Our Daily Bread using sage shadow ink, then stamped the sentiment (SU Blessed Mother) with black versafine. Cut it out with labels 18.
Next I cut the parisian motif out of sage shadow c/s.  Designer paper is from a 6x6 pack of paper from Webster's Pages.
Finished it off with some pearls, prima flower and a bow.

Overall this was a fairly fast card to whip up.  I can see me using this design again.

Enjoy the rest of your day.  Thanks for stopping by.

Pauline

No card but some exciting news

Sorry I don't have a card to share with you today, but I did get some exciting news this morning when I checked my emails.

I had a very nice email from Angie at Our Daily Bread. She proceeded to tell me that one of my cards that I had posted on SCS was being featured on Our Daily Bread blog as the Customer Card of the Day!

I was speechless to say the least. What an honour this is.

If you would like to see the article  and card you can view it here.


Anyways, just had to share my excitement with you.

Pauline