Christmas Cheer

Today's card is one that I will be sharing with a group of 50 seniors (I'm told they range in age from 60-94!) in my neighborhood!  Our neighborhood association sponsors a monthly luncheon for our senior residents.  As a special treat for them, a couple of my friends (fellow demonstrators) and I have volunteered to help them make a Christmas card.  I am so grateful to my friends for donating their time and supplies to help me with this event.  This is the design we decided on for the card.  Very simple and cheerful!  We have prepped everything, even stamped the sentiment and tied the bow, so all the seniors will have to do is adhere everything.  Tried to keep it simple!  Hopefully they will enjoy being a little crafty!  I cased the basic layout for this card from a card I saw from Amanda Mertz .  I used Stampin' Up's retired confetti white card stock.  Love that stuff, it's so strong--great for a card base.  I am also going to submit this card for a the Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge #144--Snowflakes and the SUO Challenge #58 – A Clean and Simple Holiday Card .  Have a fabulous day!  Thanks for stopping by!

HSS #139--Pumpkins!!

Love, love, love pumpkins!  However, I am not a huge fan of 3-d project.  I just never know what to do with them.  This one will find itself on the table on my entry way until Thanksgiving though!  I created this using an empty toilet paper roll in the center.  I actually had to make this twice.  The first time I used SNAIL adhesive.  Turned out that wasn't strong enough.  All the pieces popped off and I had to reattach them using sticky strip.  The "stem" in the center is just a long piece of soft suede CS that I slit all the way down and rolled up.  I created this for the Hand Stamped Sentiments Challenge #139--Pumpkins.  Hope you like it!

CCMC221 and HSS #138

I love this stamp set!  Postage Due was on my wish list as soon as I saw it.  I held out, hoping I would earn it for free and finally I did!  Yay!!  Who doesn't love free stamps??  The large stamp in this set is ideal for heat embossing in my opinion.  I used the new Early Espresso embossing powder, another one of my fave new items!  As I was sponging the colors on the background, I realized I should've used glossy paper.  But, all in all, it ended up working out alright with the regular Whisper White cardstock.  I used the sketch challenge Create with Connie and Mary and the color challenge from Hand Stamped Sentiments  However, my dimensions were off and the whole thing just looks off balanced to me.  I will definitely need to play with this set some more!