Diamond Dotz - Snowman

Taking a side step from the cards to show you another diamond dotz. This is a snowman I did for my daughter and gave it to her for her birthday. It really looks wonderful matted and framed. I really think that wooden frame brings it altogether.

 You just can't capture the bling factor in a photo but trust me it shines without being gawdy.

Now if I could just finish my Santa, sigh.

Feliz Navidad

Originally I picked out and planned to back this cute doggy on some plaid paper but at the last minute I decided to add the string of lights and sadly the card just didn't look as good as it did on this wood panel so I had to make a slight change. 

The dog is from Tim Holtz, my lights are from Papertrey Ink and the sentiment from Simon Says stamp, and if you noticed there are no enamel dots. I am a little shocked myself since I use so many of them. 

Hope everyone enjoyed their Turkey day and had a wonderful time with family and friends. I for one am ready for Christmas, my calendar is already getting full and I hope the month doesn't fly by I really want to enjoy it. 

Christmas Advent Calendar

So every year I go to the expo, well twice a year and I always visit this one booth and lo and behold I found some Disney dies one year so I bought one, then sadly I lost it so next time the expo rolled around I searched for this booth to repurchase my die and the more time I spent in there the more money I ended up spending.

She had these Kaiser Kraft advent calendar displayed and I thought oh how fun it would be to do one in a Disney theme for the boys so I bought one plus the pull handles and some lights. But then I couldn't find any Disney Christmas themed paper so opted to search through my stash of paper and found all this Basic Grey and knew it would be a perfect match.

I began by painting the pieces (except for the boxes), then assembled the main structure and added on my pp. For the boxes I painted the inside, made a template then cut all the pieces out and attached all of that paper to the boxes and finally distressed the boxes and inked them. Yes it was a lot of work.

After I assembled  the calendar I knew I needed to add some other objects and I did use tinker bell for a bit of Disney and also my Tim Holtz star die with the word letter Believe that I glittered.

 I also poked some holes for the lights to shine through and a wreath

 

and I wanted to make a little scene on the ledge, again having a hard time finding what I wanted but finding stuff I could settle on like these cute snowmen. 

and of course I added 2 of those guys to represent each of the boys

and even though mom will be filling the boxes with treats, notes about what they are doing for the day or perhaps a poem I thought it would be fun to hide additional little characters in some of the boxes themselves. 

If you've read this far, be sure and enjoy your Turkey day tomorrow and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Noel

I want you to know that I bought a set of ornament stamps and tag dies from Papertrey Ink a good 5 years ago always thinking I will make my own tags for presents and never do. Sadly I saw them sitting there and figured I needed to give em some exercise.

I decided the round tag would work as an ornament and then scouring over my pp pads I found some distressed plaid from Tim Holtz and knew they would work well together.

The ornament die by itself looked a little bland to me and I saw these enamel holly dots I bought last year I think so time to put em to use.

I'm really digging plaid for some reason right now, I even bought my hubby a plaid tie to wear at a Christmas party and my dgd some black and white plaid pants as a Christmas gift and did I even mention all the throws I am making out of yep plaid fleece. I think I may be a little plaid crazy even.

Believe in the Magic Of Christmas

I confess I originally bought the Believe die and stamp set from Simon Says Stamp to use for Disney pages and when Tim Holtz came out with his starburst die set I was all over it for the exact same reason but marry the two together for a Christmas card and they have a magical effect. Once I die cut the stars I matted the card base over some glitter card stock to add the magic effect then used my stamps to complete this card. I did have to search way back for this red pp from Basic Grey but am always happy to use up my older product.

Hello December

Back to using my KI Memories pp I cut the trees using Pink and Main dies and gave them a snowy hillside from MFTS, and decided a little Lawn Fawn deer was in order to complete the scene. And since I thought it should be snowing I used a Simon Says falling snow template to add a bit of snow dimension on to the card. I also die cut the sentiment from Penny Black out of a bit of silver card since it went with that lovely purple so well.

Holiday Wishes - MFTS

I wanted to keep using my KI paper but thought I'd give it a break and use some Pink and main pp since they have such yummy pp. Using MFTS Elf stamps and dies for this card. I popped up the white banner with the sentiment along with the tree and elf. And as usual there's those enamel dots to finish off the card.

Are You Yeti for Christmas - MFTS

As promised my KI paper along with MFTS Yeti stamp. I decided to use all the products as they had intended eons ago and just added my Yeti, sentiment and a couple of enamel dots.

I didn't have a banner die long enough so I cut it and then just attached it neatly hiding my cut edges so it gives the appearance that it's longer than it really is.