**If y'all rather not read my blabbing you can scroll down to the dotted line - I've posted a card below it!!**
And yes I AM proud of it!! With all the craziness in my life these past couple of months - I am SO glad that I started EARLY with all the Christmas shopping.
I've been getting things here and there, setting them aside and mentally taking stock of what all I've purchased so far and what all else I need to get. I am thisclose to being completely done! YAY!
I LOVE Christmas, and I LOVE getting gifts for people (especially when I can find things that I know that the person really wants and I end up finding it on SALE *grin*) - but I HATE shopping last minute. I also hate shopping in huge crowds and it's already like that.
I took my Mom to Costco on Saturday as we had to stock up on supplies for the coffee shop (she does a TON of catering too - so we go through tons of produce/meat/etc etc etc) - and man what a nightmare that parking lot was! We got the very last handicapped parking stall (the only bonus for her having a broken foot!) and then had to navigate the warehouse - **I went into a whole rant for a good couple of paragraphs about how adults are SO RUDE there - all they do is stare and I can't tell you how many weird looks we got - but I deleted it!! Let's just say if someone looks funny to you - be discreet!! You don't need to stop what you're doing or nearly walk in to other people b/c you're staring at someone with a cast on - it wasn't like she had an alien sticking out of her head or something LOL!!**
ANYWHO - all that to say I am VERY happy to be nearly done with the presents-shopping. That is just one less (rather large!) thing for me to do/stress about/whatever.
Now I just have to figure out what we're going to do with a new cat and me and my Christmas trees and other decorations!! I can't NOT put them up (I'm for sure hosting my side of the family here this year - not sure yet if I'm hosting for Tim's side yet) but I can't say what I'd do if I came home to a wrecked tree/trees/broken ornaments/etc etc. Any advice from all you cat-owners out there??
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SO - since my sister is better and back at work (yay for her and me!!) I actually have today to be at home and get things done.
And of course I HAD to make at least one card:
This is card number three made with the new Swiss Pixies Holiday stamps (you can check out #1 HERE and #2 HERE) - and I think this one is my favorite of the three!
I stamped this Swiss Pixies Nora stamp onto CCD White cardstock then colored her in with Copics.
COPICS USED:
E50, E51, R20, E25, E27, R83, R85, R39, R59, YG25, BG000, BG01, BG0000
I made the design on her coat with the colorless blender (video on how-to HERE), die cut the image with my labels 4 dies then masked and airbrushed the blue around her.
**I've received several comments and e-mails about masking - you can check out one of my old tutorials on masking HERE - and I will hopefully have a video how-to up really soon! I did a video the other day and just haven't had the chance to upload/edit/get it onto YouTube yet! I'll try to get that done this week.**
I blinged her up with Stickles (for those that don't know Stickles are glitter glues in all different colors. You just apply them to your projects (they all come in squeeze bottles with narrow applicator tips) and they dry pretty flat and all sparkly!) on her wings and boots and whatnot.
The snowflake is a felt flurry from SU that I dabbed with a Copic marker to tint it the color I wanted (FYI be careful using Copics on felt - the felt can wick out a lot of ink - and it can take a LONG time to dry - even with using Copics!) then attached to the card with a MME brad.
The patterned paper is all from the MME Colorful Christmas line.
The sentiment is from the Christmas Card Greetings set. I decided not to add a sentiment to the inside of the card but instead just add the two strips of patterned paper to "finish" off the inside.
As always I gotta run! I have mountains of laundry to do plus I'm cleansing today so I need to keep busy so that I don't lose focus and start snacking!
TTYL!
**sorry this was posted so late! I had it typed up and ready to go a couple of hours ago but SaskTel showed up to fix my phone line and I've had no internet (and of course they showed up literally just as I was finishing up this post and ready to publish!!). Now that it's fixed I'm good to go (and hope I've finally got a phone line that WORKS - in the past month I've had maybe only 2/3's of it with a working phone!)**
