Ornamental Cheer abounds

As you can see I'm back on this pattern. In fact, I have a few cards of this pattern and group of stamp sets. I also have a few cards with the tree grouping I posted yesterday.

I have found another favourite product to add to my arsenal....that is Close To My Heart's NEW pigment inks in all 40 colours! It makes jazzing any artwork up with coordinating ink that is brighter than our dye ink, plus you can emboss it with clear for more shine.

I started with Pacifica cardstock on the top, stamped with the script image from Universal Backgrounds. The sentiment is from Christmas Joy and is stamped with Black pigment ink and embossed with clear powder. The ornament is Sky cardstock stamped with Pacific pigment ink and embossed in clear. The image is from new Ornamental Cheer stamp set.

The patterned paper is from retired, Wonderland, paper pack. I added some Silver Shimmer trim and a wee bit of Colonial White grosgrain ribbon.

All supplies are Close To My Heart.
Stamps: Christmas Joy; Ornamental Cheer; Universal Backgrounds
Paper: Wonderland
Cardstock: Pacifica; Sky; Colonial White
Embellishments: Silver Shimmer Trim; Colonial White grosgrain ribbon; Clear embossing powder
Tools: Artiste Cricut cartridge

My memory has space for more cards!

I have spent the week deleting old posts; resizing and deleting pictures in the hopes that my memory of pictures was no longer full. With cautious joy, I'm posting this card.

I stamped the Twilight cardstock with an image from, Love Life, in Twilight ink. The sentiment is stamped with Black pigment ink and embossed with clear powder. The image is from, Christmas Joy. The gorgeous tree is from, Holiday Wishes, and is stamped on Sweet Leaf cardstock with Topiary pigment ink. I also embossed the tree image with clear embossing powder.I added some Burlap ribbon along with a Twilight button and my card is done.

All supplies are Close To My Heart.
Stamps: Love Life; Christmas Joy; Holiday Wishes
Cardstock: Twilight; Sweet Leaf; Topiary; Colonial White
Ink: Twilight; Black and Topiary pigment
Embellishments: Burlap ribbon; Twilight button; clear embossing powder
Tools: Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge

Out of Memory.........

Well, after reading what I thought was a crazy thing that happened to Vicki Wizniuk, I was too lazy and chose to NOT heed her advice. I was about to create some new posts for my blog, and while attempting to upload some pictures I got a message saying I was out of memory!

Well, I hope to NEVER be out of memory.....personally......but this is evidence once again, we should all take Vicki's advice and now mine. RESIZE YOUR PICTURES before posting them to your blog.

I use Photoshop in various forms and it is very simple to resize your image. You click on "Image", then in the drop down menu you will see "Image Size". I was told by my webmaster to resize pictures to 400 x 600 pixels....easy to remember as a 4x6 photo. If you are using Photoshop CS5, as you type one number, the proper size for the other side automatically keys in. This is wonderful feature, because when resizing in Photoshop Elements 5, I remember having to guess at the other number. It made me laugh sometimes, because if my guess was really off the picture would go from rectangular to square. I started just subtracting 1200 pixels from each number that appeared when I went into the image size and that seemed to do the trick.

I will now attempt to get into my album to resize or delete some photos. I could not get past the pop up box to create a profile last night, in the Picassa album. I may have to pay for more memory......or I will get my computer genius Son on it to crack the code/system for me! (I never imagined I would ask my 16 year old, or any teenager, to rescue me with a fix in our cyber world!) I will let you know how I make out, if it is something different than suggestions Vicki made.

So, until I resolve this, I guess my artwork will be temporarily unavailable!

Something completely different....

I thought I would interrupt my one design blue cards, to bring you this sweet one created with Pear & Partridge.

I used the stamp set from Pear & Partridge Card Workshop On The Go set. I stamped in Ruby ink, then restamped a portion in Olive ink. The other sentiment is from retired, Christmas Love. That is it......sweet and simple!

All supplies are Close To My Heart.
Pear & Partridge WOTG Card kit
Stamp: Christmas Love
Ink: Ruby; Olive
Tools: Artiste Cricut cartridge

Alcohol Markers RULE!

This is the last of 3 designs gals created at my Flakey Friends workshop, a few weeks back.

This must be where my love of this pattern got started. This card is simple with Avonlea paper on the top and Twilight cardstock on the bottom. The Twilight is stamped with the snowflake image from Flakey Friends in Twilight ink. The sentiment is stamped in Black pigment ink, then embossed with clear powder. The sentiment is from Very Merry Christmas, Oct stamp of the month.

The cute snowman is stamped with Black Memento ink then coloured with our Twilight and Crystal Blue Alcohol markers. I added Silver Shimmer Trim and Grey Wool Baker's Twine, also. There is also some puffy snow from some Liquid Applique.

All supplies are Close To My Heart, unless noted.
Paper: Avonlea
Stamp: Flakey Friends; Very Merry Chirstmas
Ink: Twilight; Black Pigment
Alcohol Markers: Twilight; Crystal Blue
Embellishments: Silver Shimmer Trim; Grey Wool Baker's Twine; Liquid Applique
Tools: Artiste Cricut cartridge
Other: Black Memento ink

Christmas Cards GALORE!

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm stuck on one card pattern. Here is another version.

 I have to make hundreds of Christmas cards this year. The cards I will need for family; friends and customers. In addition, I have been selling lots of cards at the cafe I work at part-time and will be selling at another cafe opening the beginning of December.

This card used Flakey Friends for the snowflake background on Twilight cardstock. The sentiment is from Pear & Partridge Card WOTG and the bulb is from Oct SOTM, Very Merry Christmas. I stamped both with our new Black and Twilight pigment inks. I then embossed with clear embossing powder.

To finish up, I added some Baker's Twine in Grey Wool and Silver Shimmer Trim.

All supplies are Close To My Heart.
Paper: Avonlea
Stamps: Flakey Friends; Very Merry Christmas; Pear and Partridge Card WOTG
Ink: Black and Twilight pigment; Twilight
Embellishments: Silver Shimmer Trim; Baker's Twine; clear embossing powder
Tools: Artiste Cricut cartridge

Christmas Challenge at H2H

We are having another Christmas Challenge over at H2H.

Here is one of the cards I created for this challenge.

I am caught up creating cards with a certain layout at the moment. You will see how caught I am as I post more cards.

So, I got out one what I think is the BEST EVER Christmas stamp sets....Holiday Wishes. It came with large, bold images to stamp on coordinating shapes from Art Philosophy. So I cut out some trees and went to town with other great CTMH products.

I inked this stamp with our new pigment inks in Blush. I added clear embossing powder and heated it up for a nice shiny appearance. I stamped the sentiment with our Black pigment ink, then clear embossed it, as well. Then I continued stamping the sentiment all over the Slate cardstock in Whisper ink.

I added a strip of Grey Flannel cardstock punched with our corner/scallop makers. Then some of our scrumptious Silver Shimmer Trim. I finished off the card with a Blush button tied up with Colonial White Waxy Flax.

Now it is your turn to create something with a Christmas theme for the challenge at H2H Challenge Blog.

All supplies are Close To My Heart.
Stamps: Holiday Wishes; Christmas Joy
Ink: Whisper; Black and Blush pigment
Cardstock: Slate; Grey Flannel; Colonial White
Embellishments: Silver Shimmer Trim; Blush button; Colonial White Waxy Flax; Clear embossing powder
Tools: Corner/scallop maker; Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge