Xmas Again

yes, I have been making lots of Xmas cards this year.

Invited a friend over and there was a lot of painting of papers.  We cut,glued

and went crazy at the work table.

For over two weeks I have been adding 

ribbons,fibers and glitter.....seems like it took forever to finish all of them.

Seems I am very into pink and orange this year.

 Also copper and blue...............

and then started quite a few in silver and grey.......

Now I have to address all of these.  I wonder if I will get it all finished in time for

old Saint Nick.

I have not blogged for such a long time.  Life gets in the way sometimes....months went by

and it eventually turned into a year and then more months and here it is ......Christmas time,,,

again.

I hope you are well and thriving.

Enjoy the holiday season.

Be Merry!

Be Merry!

I hope you all had a wonderful day!    

I hope Santa was good to you. 

Merry Christmas-Frohe Weihnachten

Merry Christmas

Frohe Weihnachten

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and all the best for 2013!

A few images from the Christmas Market in Augsburg, Germany.

Ho,Ho,Ho........

BE MERRY!!!!

Tis the Season

Tis the Season....in a rainbow of washi tape colors. 

Pick a color. 

Any color. 

 Maybe you are a purple person.

Or a pink person. 

I love the color orange.

I had fun using up some of my assorted washi tapes.

Some quick and easy Christmas cards.

I am sharing this with Take a Word.

You  know what they say don´t you...

A girl can never be too rich, too skinny or have

too much washi tape.

Is it Snowing Yet?

Where is all the snow?

It seems strange that I have not yet had to

shovel my driveway and it is December.

December and almost Christmas...and no

snow in sight. I had to add some snowflakes

to these cards in glimmery, glitzy metallic inks.

I wonder if we will have a white Christmas this year.

How much snow have you had so far?

I am sharing my snowflakes with The Three Muses, Stampotique

and Less is Moore.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, Frohe Weihnachten, Joyeux Noel,

Prettige Kerstdagen,

Feliz Navidad and Buon Natale

Wishing each and everyone a very Merry Christmas!

This is one of my necklace tags. It is the perfect accessory for any
well dressed tag this season.

Crazy Amigo, The Three Muses and Something Completely Different
have the theme of Christmas this week. Tag Tuesday is also featuring
the Colors of Christmas with accents in either silver or gold.
Go have a look at all of them for a last little bit of Christmas cheer.

Season´s Greetings

Season´s Greetings

I made this tag using one of yesterday´s Freebie papers.

Scroll down to yesterday´s post to see both of the hand painted papers.

Snowflake Delight

This is the sheet that I used.

Wednesday Stamper is featuring the Snowflake this week.

Handpainted Paper Sunday Freebie 4

Snowflake Delight

Here it is the weekend before Christmas.

Considering the fact that we all might have last minute cards or things to wrap, here is one of my Christmas presents to you. A hand painted snowflake paper using gesso, acrylics, salt, watercolors and a snowflake stamp.

Bavarian Snow

This piece has been sprinkled with authentic Bavarian snow.

I dropped some watercolors and a touch of silver metallic onto watercolor paper and took a handful of snow and gently sprinkled it onto the surface and let it dry.

If you find a use for these papers in your projects, please show me your creation. I would like to feature it in a future Before and After post. You can also see previous Freebie Papers here.

My Kind of Santa

Santa

For all my cat-loving friends...........this is our kind of Santa!

A quick postcard for Sunday PostCard Art....Santas galore.

Noel 4

Frohe Weihnachten, Joyeux Noel, Merry Christmas........

This background of Red and White was done with oil pastels and stamping.

Red and White week comes to a close today...time to move on to other colors.

Jingle all the way...........

Inkurable Stampers is featuring other One Layer Cards...go have a look.

Noel 3

Noel

This is going to be a Red and White week.

This card was made using the assembly line process.

Lay your cards on your work table. Get your watercolors ready. Grab that two inch wide brush

and W-H-OOOOOO-S-H it across each consecutive card.

Remove your cat from the worktable....important step!

Of course,,,laughing all the way and making spirits bright,,,don´t forget a splash of water here and a spritz of paint there. I told you to remove the cat didn´t I. Add a few fibers and presto....you have yourself a one layer card ready for the post.

Over at Keep It Simple they are displaying lots of Christmas cards,,,go have a look.

Red and White

Red and White Christmas

Red is one of my favorite colors....so when Christmas rolls around I never tire of making

cards using the color Red.

Wednesday Stamper has lots of red and white creations this week....

go have a look.

Noel 2

Noel

This Christmas card was masked and sprayed with red ink then stamped with various stamps. I attached a strip of music and a little square of watercolor paper edged in gold with a star and a small piece of red ribbon. On top of that I stapled a gold fabric star with the words Noel.

I finished it off by inking the edges with brown walnut ink.

Are you busy making your own Christmas cards this year?

If you need more ideas ....go check out Inkurable Stampers Shabby Chic Christmas.