Happy New Year's Eve!

Wow! Another year has flown by and once again I have to learn to write a different year on my checks. It seems I just got used to writing 2019 and now I have to learn to write 2020.  But I am sure we will all adjust in time. At any rate I hope your 2020 is a wonderful new year for you. We will watch the old year out and the new year in by sitting in front of the TV.  We no longer do the party scene. We are lucky if we even stay awake until the new year arrives.

I got a reminder in the mail this last week of the upcoming drive for the Cards for Little Hearts so I thought I would share it with all of you as well. This way if you get a chance to work on some cards for the kids in between times during January you can find out all the details from the website. I hope you will consider making some cards. Even one or two would be of great value for this cause. When I make these cards I try to imagine in my mind that hopefully it will bring a smile to a little one who is having heart health issues.

So in the next days I plan on making some cards and in fact, have already gotten a few made for the drive. I have enjoyed doing that while we were in a blizzard. We got around 9 inches of snow again and it was very wet. So it was hard snow to push around and in fact, hubby took the tractor and loader to move it as the snow blower would not work with it. That was much better then shoveling it all by hand. I hope all of you who were in the line of the storms fared okay too. We were lucky and did not lose electricity but some of our friends did for a time loose their power. The only thing affected mainly for us was the internet as we were out quite a bit of the time. Also most churches canceled their services Sunday including ours.

Well, here's to a happy 2020. I wish you all the best and God's blessings.

Hugs,
Verna

Merry Christmas

Just a quick card to share and to wish all of you a wonderful Christmas holiday. A simple design with pattern paper from Gina K. Designs and a die cut from Stamplorations Cutplorations which I think is a great sentiment to place on it. It was die cut from red mirror card stock. But the shimmer does not show as much as I would have liked it to do.

I wish all who are traveling for the holidays to have a safe journey. I hope you have a great time with family and friends and enjoy celebrating the birthday of our Lord Jesus!

God bless,
Verna

O Christmas Tree!

I made a card with Impression Obsession products and will be entering it in their latest challenge, The Impression Obsession Challenge-Quick and Easy Holiday Cards was perfect for me as that is mostly the kind of cards I make these days. I just love the tree I used for it and also by masking made a few presents to put beneath it.

The Impression Obsession products used are the following:
Pine Tree-K16247
Presents and Sentiment from the CL980 Holiday Icons stamp set

Other Supplies:
Various brands of ink
Bic Markers
Rhinestones from my stash -unknown

I had to finish up a few last minute details for cards and such as I found out that tomorrow night I am getting company. I had not figured on any this year but it is my two grandsons who want to visit for a couple days so I had to say yes to them. The house is a bit disheveled but they won't care. I hope all of you are doing well and if I don't get back on again before next Wednesday I want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas.

God bless,
Verna

The Seventh Day of Christmas

I had to join the Double D Challenge-Twelve Days of Christmas: Part 2 and I chose to use the seventh day for my entry. I found a wonderful digital set of swan stamps which was originally made for sympathy cards but with the use of another digital set I managed to make my swan look more like a Christmas design. I know it calls for seven swans but I am only using one swan for my card.

I printed out the large swan and then using my blending brushes added some color around it. This was then die cut with a stitched rectangle die from Maker's Movement.  Next I took poinsettias from another digital stamp set and fussy cut them as adornments and also fussy cut some very small poinsettias to make a garland for the swan's neck. I computer generated the sentiment. I added this main panel to a layer of printed poinsettia paper and only used the very edge of the poinsettia pattern so that it resembles more of a colored stitched outline too.

Stamp Sets used:
Artsystamper Poinsettia Pair Stamps & Paper
Sweet N Sassy, LLC-Be Still stamp set

Well, my cookies and dinner rolls are baked and ready to go. Now I want to coat a few pretzels and that probably will conclude my holiday baking. I might still make a few no bake cookies as they are easy to do and always enjoyed. Most of the goodies except for the dinner rolls will be put in containers and given as Christmas gifts.

Everyone have a great rest of the week and a pleasant weekend. Christmas is soon here so I hope you are catching up on all you wanted to do. I guess I am about done so I am good in that department. Thanks for visiting.

God bless,
Verna

Cute Penguin Card

I love this stamp of that cute penguin  and all those floating hearts. I got him at Jan's Digi Stamps. The set he comes with is 3225J Puttin' On The Ritz. I know he will make cute Valentines but I was hoping I could use this set also for the Cards for Little Hearts Drive which is in January. For this particular card I once again went with the pre-colored version but I can see me coloring with my markers the line versions for the kids too. I would go with different colors of hearts for sure. Try to get away from the Valentine look. What do you think? Would it work for the kids?

I die cut the panels out with Memory Box Cross Stitched Border Dies and added some washi tape from Stampin' Up! Then I mounted all of these layers onto a pink card base.

I am entering this in the following challenge:
Challenge #4-Anything Goes Jan's Digi Stamps

No bread baking today. My arm was sore and I did not think I would care to make it worse by kneading bread. Maybe tomorrow. I am sure it will soon be better. The gal who gave the shot told me to wiggle my fingers while she gave it to me. That way my muscles would not get sore. Well I must not have wiggled the right way. LOL That was the first time anyone had told me to wiggle my fingers.

Nice and sunny here and we love it. Warming up too. So that makes us happy! I hope wherever you are that you are having a wonderful day too. Thanks for stopping by.

God bless,
Verna

Digital Gift Wrap

I did not get much done as far as crafty work today as I got the call from the pharmacy that my shingles shot was available now so I went in and got that done and also did a few other errands. But when I got home I did wrap some gifts with some pattern paper that I made with digis from Artsystamper. I used the pine cone, evergreen and the poinsettia digis from Artsystamper to make a few sheets of paper to wrap my smaller gifts in. So that is what I am sharing with you today.

I think they look very festive with the images I used. These were already colored so that made it even easier to create with them. I found some pretty bows to top them off with and that makes my pretty gifts ready for giving.

I am entering this in the Artsystamper Digitals Challenge #6-Wrapping and/or Tags.

I hope you found this post interesting and maybe inspiring you to create some simple wrapping paper. I just printed them all out on some regular computer paper so they were thin enough to bend and shape rather then using any card stock.

Well, I hope your week is off to a great start. Last night we attended the children's program at church and they gave a wonderful performance and told the story of the real meaning of Christmas--the birth of our Lord Jesus!

Until next time God bless,
Verna

Snowy Christmas Scene

Before I quit with making Christmas  cards I wanted to create a snowy scene to enter into the Impression Obsession Challenge: It's Snow Time! So using some IO stamps and a die I created this card.

I masked off the bottom of the panel so I could brush on my sky. And then when I removed the mask I lightly brushed on the bottom with the same color but in not as intense coloring to make my snow. I then stamped one of the trees, masked that off and then added two other trees along side of it. With my Copics I colored the trees. I added snow with a white paint pen to the trees and also added some flakes to the sky. Then I die cut the panel out with an IO die and also cut another one of the same size out with some red glitter paper to make the frame. I finished the card by placing it on a white card base.

Impression Obsession Products:
CL980 Holiday Icons Stamp Set
DIE805-YY Checkered Frames

Other Supplies:
Inks of Various Companies
Copic Markers
Stampin' Up! Glitter Paper
White Card Stock-Gina K. Designs
Crafter's Companion Glue Runner
Life Changing Blending Brushes

I hope you like my clean and simple scene. I know it works okay for me. Happy Saturday to all of you too!

Thanks for visiting and God bless,
Verna