Our Family Christmas Card

Hello friends.  I wanted to share with y'all a very different Christmas card.  I wanted something different for our family this year.  Something that represents our family in a different light.  I tried to come up with something that would reflect all three of our personalities.  What did I come up you ask?

Yep, that's right..a card reminiscent of Duck Dynasty.  All three of us absolutely love that show. Si is Kierstynne's favorite.  I like Jase and Willy and Tim likes Phil.  Of course, we all love Miss Kay. 

I have to admit that I didn't come up with the tree idea.  I watched a video on YouTube by Kristina Werner showing how she made fingerprint trees.  I just took it a step farther and made it a camouflage tree and cut it out with pinking shears instead of doing it on a white card base.  Kierstynne helped me with the inking.  It took quite a while to get them all done.  For the background, I ran pieces of brown Recollection card stock through my Cuttlebug using a Darice Wood Grained EF.  I cut down some camouflage paper and added to the left side.  I used pop dots on the tree and start.  The sentiment is printed out from my Word Processing program.  I didnt' want to add too many embellishments to it because even though us rednecks like bling, the Duck Dynasty crew is kinda plain.

I hope y'all get a kick out of this card as do the recipients of our card this Christmas.  Have a wonderful day and God bless!

Marvelous Monday with Digi Darla

Hello there, friends.  Today is Monday and that means the start of a new challenge over at Digi Darla.  Our last challenge, The Holly Copy Cat image, brought in some beautiful creations.  Our winner of 5 images from the store is:

BASTELARENA

Congrats, Bastelarena.  This is an amazing little tag.  Make sure you contact Denise to claim your prize.

Our new challenge is "SNOWMEN OR SANTA".  That gives you quite a range of items to choose from.  There are so many different styles of Santa's and Snowmen out there.

The winner, chosen by Random.org, will win 5 images from the store as long as use a Digi Darla image.

I chose to use Snowmen as my basis.  Here's what I came up with:

I colored this cute snowman with BIC Markers and Sakura Glitter gel pens.  I used Labels 10 from Spellbinders to die cut the snowman.  I cut a red label of the same size and off set the image.  I used two pieces of patterned paper from K & Co's Mod Holiday stack.  The snowflakes are punches that I colored with a gold metallic pen so that they would match the gold on the snowman's scarf and hat.  Before adhering the background paper, I ran it through a Darice EF called Corner Swirls.  Adding some gems to the center of the snowflakes and printing out the sentiment finished off the card.

I hope y'all have enjoyed this sweet card.  I hope to see some of y'alls cards in our challenge this week.  Have a wonderful Monday and God bless y'all.

White Card

Well, it's nice to see y'all again.  Come on in.  I have a card for y'all today that is a little out of my comfort zone.  I don't normally do tone on tone cards, just because I am not good with them. 

This card is a white on white card.  No image this time, just a nice sentiment.

The picture is a little dark, but everything except the sentiment is white.  To make this card, I started with a piece of Gina K Designs Heavy Base Weight White card stock.  I ran the front of the card through an embossing folder from Darice.  I like this brand of embossing folder and it's cheaper than Sizzix or Tim Holtz.  Although I will never give up on Tim's products, sometimes it's nice to find a good quality product for a good price.   I took another piece of GP white card stock and ran it through the same embossing folder.  I used my Cutter bee scissors to cut out just the frame of the embossed card stock.  I stamped the sentiment (Tami Mayberry)  on the frame in Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  I used pop dots to give the frame some dimension.  I added four cream colored, flat back pearls from Queen and Co. to finish off the card.  I would definitely consider this one a CAS.

Thanks for stoppin' in today.  This is the last post for today.  I will back with some more creations tomorrow.  God bless y'all.

This card is for the Outlawz Challenges--Sunday's CAS