Shabby Chic Christmas Card

How many of you are shabby chic kind of folks? I love the look and it's a blast to create paper craft projects in this style. It's so fun to get inky and tear up paper! 

My favorite shabby technique has to be applying Whip Cream ink to colored card stock. For this card it gives the Oatmeal Cookie a frosty appearance that invokes a chilly wintry feeling just looking at it! 

What do you think of the layered snowflake? Cute? While making this card, I discovered that the snow die included in the Journey Holiday Blooms Holiday Set and the medium sized die in the Snow Burst set fit together perfectly! Cool, huh? 

And how about these snowy white and silver sequins? Oh my...made for this winter cards! Love!

Fun Stampers Journey Supplies: 

Snow Buddy SS-0074

Tag Elements AT-130

Journey Blooms Holiday Set DI-0048

Snow Burst DI-0061

Journey Rectangles DI-0041

Oatmeal Cookie IP-0011

Whip Cream IP-0009

Journey Sequins Holiday Elements AC-0116

Candy Apple Satin Ribbon AC-0145

Whip Cream Journey Thread AC-0128

Winter Fresh Prints PP-0018

Lemongrass CS-0019

Oatmeal Cookie CS-0023

Whip Cream CS-0040

Shabby 25th Christmas Card

It's the Monday of Thanksgiving week and I wonder how many of you are taking off today or tomorrow for Thanksgiving? Perhaps you left this weekend already? If you are staying at home, like I am, hosting Thanksgiving, maybe you will have some time in between preparations to blog hop and craft? Yesterday I had a little crafty time and created this Christmas card.

The doily is actually a vintage find from one of my favorite local Antique stores, SuzAnne's! The gorgeous glittered patterned paper is new from My Mind's Eye. It's part of their new Lost and Found line. Oh is it ever fabulous! So fabulous that I want to buy several more sheets!

The chipboard numbers are American Craft Tinsel Thickers. I altered them by adding some silver glitter from Martha Stewart...she makes the best glitter!

That adorable tag with the young couple is from K & Company, part of last year's Christmas collection. And the little sentiment tag is old, old Making Memories.

Well, I'm off to do some cleaning. Shoot, it can't all be fun and games, right? Before I go however, I'd like to give a big Happy Birthday wish to my best gal pal Audrey! She's turning the 45 today! She thinks that's old, but I keep telling her it's just a number, right?!?!

Here's Miss Pettit on one of our recent junk hunts. She's gorgeous, huh? I think 45 looks great on her! Anyway, some of you know Audrey....and if you would like to wish her a Happy Birthday, visit her blog here. :)

That's it for today. I think I'll have to come back before Thanksgiving to post something fallish! Have a great week everyone and if I don't chat with you before the big feast...ENJOY! :) Kathy

2 Sketches 4 You - Sketch 38

It's a brand new week and that means there's a cool new card sketch over at 2 Sketches 4 You! They have the most awesome sketches! And this week you could win a gift certificate for some terrific rubber stamps at DRS Designs! Above is the new sketch and the card I made for it. For further details on this week's sketch and sponsor, jump over to http://www.2sketches4you.blogspot.com/. Hope you have fun and win that certificate! 

What to do with those Christmas Cards?

Here's a few environmentally friendly ideas for your Christmas cards now that the season is behind us. Recycling them provides companies such as Seventh Generation the post consumer paper it needs to produce their toilet paper, facial tissue, paper towels, and napkins. Whole Foods market makes their brand of these products under the 365 label. Even Staples sells printer paper made of 100% post consumer recycled paper. Don't forget to buy these items or it does little good to recycle.

Reusing your Christmas cards and to/from tags is an even better option. If you have to/from tags that open like greeting cards, keep the front of the tags and cut off the writing portion. Most of my tags this year were from the year before which also saves money. As for your holiday cards, you can cut out some of the pretty images and glue them onto a new piece of card stock to send out next year. This is a fun project for the kids to help you with.

If you like to keep your cards and all the photographs that come with them, the photo above is a scrapbook page made of Christmas cards. I saw this project a couple years ago on Two Peas in a Bucket. You cut up some of your cards into 1 1/2" squares and apply them to a 12"x12" piece of scrapbook card stock. This page has a pocket in it to hold all those cards with photos or handmade designs that you want to save. Now you have a beautiful scrapbook page and a safe place to keep those holiday cards and pictures.