Reschedule of Christmas Open House

PLEASE NOTE:   We need to reschedule the Christmas Open House to Saturday, Dec 8

I am actually in bed right now with the flu and stomach bug and think it's best not to share it with you. (Plus it will give me the time to get well)

Looking forward to seeing you on the 8th..........see the cute Make and Take I have in store for you!

See you soon,

    ~Anna

Cute Snowman Make & Take for Saturday!

Hello Everyone!!!
Isn't this card just too cute?

Join us this Saturday, December 1, for our Annual Christmas Open House and you too can create this great card! 

It's made with a new company, Lawn Fawn and they have so  many cute sets!  Their blog has loads of ideas.  Check them out HERE.  You can create some quick and simple cards with these stamps and have lots of fun at the same time!

I had so much fun making this card.........the set includes lots of elements to personalize your snowman!  Just check out the stamp set!.  It reminded me of the build a flower die sets, only I was building a snowman!

I'll be looking forward to seeing you at the Open House...........where we'll have refreshments, Make & Takes, specials and just good old fashioned Christmas cheer!

        ~Anna

Pretty Thanksgiving Day Card from Soni Larson

Hope you had a very nice Thanksgiving!  I had a very lovely one and Soni presented me with this very pretty card.

She used the great leaf set from JustRite Stamps and distress inks to color them.  The layout is so clean and simple, yet very elegant!

Hope you are enjoying the weekend and remember to support your favorite small businesses today, on Shop Small Day!
      ~Anna

Thanksgiving is almost here!

Thanksgiving is almost here and I have to say that I am very pleased with my new card.

I just love the beautiful die from Marianne called Anja's Large Oval, LR0236.  I love the shape and the lattice. The die cut so easily; no problems there!

The fall flowers were made with the Cheery Lynn Build a Flower set #1 and the leaves were made with Cheery Lynn, Olive Branches and Mini Fanciful Flourish. 

The finishing touches were added with a bronze pearl pen from Viva Decor.

 Here, you can see all of the different parts of the Anja's Large Oval die..............simply gorgeous.........and with so many possibilities.

Just imagine using the same lay out and just changing the colors to Christmas red and green!  (You can use these flowers or poinsettias.)  It would make a stunning Christmas card!!!  I'm going to have to try it myself!

Call and let me know if you would like any of these dies!  They are going like hot cakes now, especially ever since the sample was seen in real life!

Thanks for "stamping" by,
       ~Anna

Lavender Christmas Trees!

Yes, I said lavender and don't they just great; all sparkly and waiting to be attached to your gifts or hung on a tree?

Christmas tags do not always have to be traditional colors.  Try something different and have some fun!  We have lots of Elizabeth Crafts glitter available in all sorts of colors for you to try your hand at this!

Stop by and pick yours up today!
           ~Anna

White on White Christmas with a bit of Color

Hello Everyone!
Sorry I haven't been posting............yet so glad to be back!  We lost power here for a week because of Hurricane Sandy and even though it was rough, I'm so grateful that was all I really had to deal with.  So many people lost everything and were without power for so much longer.  Thankfully, things are getting back to normal and today I got to take pictures of some projects that I had wanted to post.

As you know I love the color scheme of white on white with a bit of color and I came up with this new card using Dee's Christmas tree die and Marianne's reindeer.  In addition, I used Nellie Snellen's pine punch and red stickles for the top of the tree and "Rudolph's" nose!

I hope this picture shows you the texture from the embossing folders.  I even ripped the card stock with the swiss dots to make two snow banks.

 And here, you can see the dimension with the layering I did with the fancy and the solid trees.

Thanks for "stamping" by and stay tuned for my next post.  Surprisingly, it will be of lavender Christmas trees!
     ~Anna

Great Christmas Tags

Thought I'd get you into the Christmas mood with these great tags.  They were fun to make and will make your gift truly stand out!

Here, I used Stacy Stamps, Mini Poinsettia and attached it to the middle of a JustRite Christmas Ornament stamp. The poinsettia was colored with Copics and the ornaments were cut out using Spellbinders 2010 Heirloom Ornament dies.  To make it all sparkle, I used stickles!

For the next tag, I used JustRite, O Christmas Tree stamp set.  I also stamped the Holly Background with Hero Arts and then used the matching embossing folder to give it lots of dimension.  This is a wonderful set from Hero Arts and Sizzix!

I also saw somewhere that someone had used a part of a rosette and so I tried it here, using one of the smaller rosette's from Tim Holtz.  Also used lots of stickles and Elizabeth Crafts, Canadian Blue micro fine glitter for the finishing touches!

For the third tag, I used Dee's Candle die (from Elizabeth Crafts), the pine punch from Nellie Snellen and Spellbinders Large Ovals. 

Of course, stickles was added to the pine branches and the flame.  It's a simple design yet impressive.

Hope this gives you some ideas for the upcoming holidays and get you started on your projects.  Christmas will be here before you know it!

Thanks for stopping by,
       ~Anna