Christmas | Paper Garden Projects

Garden Party for December 9, 2009

Posted by Cathy on Dec 9, 2008 in Garden Party, Odd Bird Planet | 3 comments

Its Tuesday – Garden Party Day. If you remember, this was our Christmas inspiration clipping from last week. And here is my card made from it. I used the new Basic Grey Wassail paper for the background. If you like vintage Holiday themes, this paper pack is wonderful! I used Odd Bird Planet images for the card – Charles left and Charles right along with Cathrine’s (that’s me!) Pine Bough. Charles and Pine Bough are also in the Homemade Holiday...

One Stamp – 3 ways

Posted by Cathy on Dec 5, 2008 in Impression Obsession, Quick Tips and Techniqies | 3 comments

I’ve been struggling with “being creative” lately. I think I’m just too busy and feeling a wee bit stressed out. So I decided to take a little time to play around with the Manger Circle stamp by Impression Obsession – just trying different stuff to see what happens. So here are 3 cards I came up with. For this first one, I stamped Manger Circle in Memento Tuxedo ink and colored it with Copic markers. I cut around the image and then mounted it on 2 circular...

Homemade Holiday Project 7 (and 8)

Posted by Cathy on Nov 10, 2008 in Card kits, Tutorials | 4 comments

Well, much to everyone’s relief this may be my last project from the Homemade Holidays Kit (unless my fiendish little mind dreams something else up – I still have supplies left, so look out). I decided I wanted to use the chipboard snowflakes included in the kit to make little Christmas Ornaments. I plan to use them in place of bows on a package, so they become part of the gift too. Holly Ornament Supplies from Kit: Holly Sprig Stamp Chipboard snowflake Maraschino and...

Home Made Holidays Project 6 – Gift Card Holder

Posted by Cathy on Nov 7, 2008 in Card kits, Odd Bird Planet, Tutorials, Uncategorized | 3 comments

Yes, I’m still at it. The Homemade Holidays kit is really big – so its easy to make a bunch of projects. Project number 6 is a Gift Card Holder made with one of the 4 clear pillow boxes included in the kit. This holder makes the gift a little more significant than just placing the gift card inside a greeting card. The insert in the pillow box holds the gift card on one side and the greeting and to/from information on the other side. The picture mounted on the front of the box...

Homemade Holiday Project 5 – Holiday Card Set

Posted by Cathy on Nov 5, 2008 in Card kits, Odd Bird Planet, Tutorials | 3 comments

On to the fifth project I made with the Homemade Holiday kit (I still have more, hope your not sick of them by now!). The kit includes a clear card box for making a gift set of cards. The box easily fits these 4 cards and will hold more. I made my cards with the same layout, just varying the colors. Supplies from the kit: Popcorn Tree and Charles Cardinal Stamps Clear Card Box Holly Jolly Stripe and Let It Snow paper Maraschino, Leapfrog, Harvest and Announcement Cream cardstock Snowflake...