Thanksgiving Here & Gone Already?

I'm guessing (and hoping) it's not just me but once the first of November rolls around each year everything seems to just start a downhill slide and no matter how I try, things like crafting end up taking a back seat to the sudden, seemingly non-ending list of things that need doing. While I have a few minutes I thought I'd share a couple of cards, but don't get confused... the holiday deadline for OWH is long gone as are these cards. They went into an early November package shipment.

I did manage to get a couple of love themed cards made this weekend that I'll be back to share in the next few days. Remember if you're working on Valentine's Day & Love cards for the Archway Cookie Challenge that deadline is December 10th. The general Valentine's deadline is December 31st.


Happy Crafting Everyone!

Christmas Cards

We have moved on to making Valentine's, & Love cards for the next OWH deadline but these are a couple of the cards that were included with my shipments this season.

The design of this first card was CASED from Featured Cardmaker Ronni.  I  love this layout and know I will use it again and again. The stamps are StampinUp.

The other two use rub-on sentiments, which are something I don't use often but I had these in my stash and thought I'd see if I couldn't use them up this year. 

Because the OWH Christmas deadline typically arrives before the stores have much in the way of seasonal supplies I started a new tradition last year and went shopping for Christmas craft stuff once the big sales hit and tucked it all away in a box. It was great fun to open it in the middle of July and be surprised by the great deals I had found and I'm looking forward to doing it again this year!


Happy Crafting Everyone!

Ready for a Challenge

It's been  a while since I posted but I have been working on cards and even managed to take pictures of several Christmas & Winter ones before shipping them off in late October. I hpe to share some over the next week or two. In the meanwhile I was excited to participate in two of the current OWH Challenges. The first being the Midweek Throwdown where Jan posted a photo to act an inspiration. One look and I knew immediately thought of this tattoo style stamp (by Inkadinkdoo, I think). I pulled out my chalks and scroll stamps too.

The other challenge is a new monthly challenge that is being sponsored by Our Daily Bread Designs and not only will they offer gift certificates, they are also going to sponsor card shipments based on the number on entries. This month's theme is Love or Valentine's Day.

Happy Crafting Everyone!