2 weeks till Christmas and where AM I!

Hello and Welcome to my Blog,

Today is December 9th with only 2 weeks till Christmas and I have just know started making cards (at least I did the shopping last month or this would be bad) I hope to have more made by tomorrow but who knows.... So for now here is my cards and their details:

This snowman here is a new clear stamp I recently bought at my LSS... actually he came out last year during the holiday season but was bought out immediatly but this year I found him quite by accident and he was the last on the shelf too. You ask, "what is so special about this stamp ?"

well he is a strechy snowman made by Stampendous, and strechy as in you can stamp him tall and skinny, short and fat, or even melting, that is what I call cool!

This second one here was actually inspired by winter herself(though it isn't officially winter yet)

the swirls represent the howling wind blowing the snow around. what I did here was stamp the swirls on blue shimmer paper with chestnut roan and color the insides with a white watercolor pencil. As to the actual swirly stamp I don't know which company made it, A friend gave it to me.

But the sentiment is part of a clear Hero Arts set CL232 Jolly Christmas.

For this one I used more stamps from the CL232 Jolly Christmas set. And for some reason this picture didn't turn out very good, but here is what I did to make it:

for the snowy hills I took 2 pieces of white paper and tore the tops unevenly, then I layered them and glittered the edges(unfortunatly you can't see the glitter) and the blue piece I dotted with white pencil marks to appear like snowflakes, as for rudolph I used a gem for his nose and you may notice he has no antlers, that is because I do horrible at cutting out tiny details, so I gave him stubbs instead. LOL.

Here is another card using the CL232 Jolly Christmas. All I did here was emboss the card with a cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder, then added a strip of red paper with gold ribbon and a sentiment.

For this last one I used another Hero Arts clear set, borrowed from my mother, so at the moment I don't have the item number, but what I did was cut a strip out of the card and replaced it with a piece of acetate embossing the stamps in gold.

So yeah that's all I got done and I'm already running out of idea's, it's so hard to keep up with chores, school, and cardmaking, not to mention the holidays. I don't ever remember being this busy! Anyway I hope you enjoyed these cards because they will be soon mailed off to 5 lucky(or unlucky 8 ~) people. OH MY GOODNESS and before I forget Over on the Hero Arts blog there is lots going on and on their flickr group is a little frog prince hunt, check them out and go see!