rustic silent night
If you haven't checked out the new releases at Sweet Shoppe Designs, be sure pop over there and check them out. I used a new collaboration kit for this card by Traci Reed and Penny Springmann called Away in a Manger. It is beautifully rustic with a vintage feel - right up my alley! I assembled the card

snowflake gift card pocket
I had to do another project using Zoe Pearn's digital Winter Wonderland kit (available at Sweet Shoppe Designs.) For these gift card pockets, I added the snowflakes images onto the red polka dot paper before I printed it out and then punched them out with an Extra Giga square punch.

winter snowflake wishes
I fell in love with the Winter Wonderlanddigital kit by Zoe Pearn at Sweet Shoppe Designs.It has such a fun mix of reds, blues, kraft, and white paired with whimsical wintery images. I created the card front digitally with 2 of the patterned papers and the ribbon image. I punched a half circle on the bottom to mak

2009 holiday tags
If you follow my blog, you know one of the things I do for holidays like Halloween, Easter, and Christmas is to make personalized tags for my girls, my nephews, and for some close family friends. They have definitely become a tradition that is looked forward to - to see what the tag will be this time. And I love doing them. It's a little bit of paper crafting love that I can give that becomes a bit of a keepsake to hold on to and/or tuck into a scrapbook.I finished up my 2009 holiday tags this week and am excited about how they turned out. Felt and glitter are a big trend in paper crafting r

glitter, snowflakes, and december
This past weekend I spent time stamping and scrapping (and shopping!) with friends at an Archivers in the Minneapolis area. My goal was to play around with some embellishment ideas, work on a December daily book, and a few other projects that I had packed. I was in my element die cutting, stitching, punching (punches are all Martha Stewart), stamping, and glittering to create the pile of embellishments in the photo above. I will useÂ