Pinterest Inspired Christmas Card

My card for today was inspired from a card found on Pinterest created by stamping up north by Laurie.

The original appeared to have been cut using dies and the sentiment I believe was a stamp.

Here is a Photo of the original card,

Using My cricut Exp;ore I tried to recreate it and here is my version.

To create the sentiment I used the writing feature on the Explore and added a swirl to the begining and end of the word Christmas I also wanted the three trees to stand out a bit more  so I embossed them . There is very little waste with this card . and I can get 4 cards from one 8.5 x 11 piece of card stock. Love that idea.

Thanks for stopping by would love get your thoughts on my recreation.

Big Blog Hugs, Janet

Happy Veteran's Day!!

Today is Veterans Day and I am going to share a Layout I created using My Memories Suite software. I actually started this in Creative memories Storybook creator but lost access to it when my computer crashed earlier this year, so i attempted to recreate it.

It covers 3 generations of Service WWI , WWII and The Vietnam Era.

The background paper is from "Create With TLC" and the embellishments are from a digital scrapbook file "Proud To Be An American"

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day and celebrate those who have served our country in both times of war and peace!!
Big Blog Hugs, Janet

The Countdown Has Begun

It's time to start planning my Christmas cards, I don't want to find myself running around at the Eleventh hour wishing I had started earlier. I Luv, Luv, Luv the CTMH cricut cartridges and this years is a great one. It's called "Artfully Sent" and I got it from Melanie Brown . The sentiment is also from CTMH and is called "Frosted". This card is so simple to make it is scary, just 2 cuts and you have it! Can't get much simpler than that. I chose to use a pastel green glitter paper to back up the card front. and just to be safe, since glitter doesn't always stick well I cut a second piece of white card stock slightly larger than the glitter piece and sandwiched the glitter paper between the card front and this piece. I really love how this turned out.

Hope you enjoy my first Christmas card for 2014, I have more in the works!!

Thanks for stopping by and would love to hear what you think!!

Big Blog Hugs, Janet