New Member of The Hens Den

Merry Christmas everyone !!  I hope you are all enjoying this wonderful day - I am just blessed beyond words and thank God daily for each of them.  This year has given me and my family many obstacles but with the help our faith, family and friends, it has gotten us through.  I am excited about the new year and ready to  get started.

Speaking of excitement and the new year, I have some very wonderful news to pass on.  A few weeks back, I received an email from Charlie over at The Hens Den asking me if I would be interested in being a part of her design team and I couldn't say no :)  I am so excited about getting started in January because I can see this is going to be a new beginning for me with regard to my creative process.  There are some great ladies on this team who have different styles and know I can learn so much from their creativity.  Thanks Charlie for letting me be a part of this great team and can't wait to get started.

I hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas and enjoying your day with family and friends.

Janet

Crafty Friends Challenge Take Two

Good morning everyone:

It's time for another challenge over at Crafty Friends Challenge and I love this challenge (but then I love them all).  It is to create a white card and "add a splash" of color.  I was asked to make some cards for a friend at work and one of them was to create a card for her grandmother with purple in it and this is what I came up with.  Now, after I look at it, it may have too much purple in it for this challenge, but I'm going to go with it.  I have found a new love for lace and can see myself using it more often in the coming days.

Well, I'm off to go learn how to use the inlinkz link manager (I have seen everyone using it and want to give it a try) and then do more creating.  See you soon. Janet

Kidney Christmas

Funny title, uh?

Yeah, that's what I thought when I was asked by a lady from work to create a card for her where "kidneys" was on the front of the card.  She wanted it to be a Christmas card with lots of green, red and glitter, but when she told me what she wanted on the front, I literally asked her 5 times if I was hearing her correctly.  I know she was frustrated when I kept asking her :)  She explained that she has a friend who needs a kidney transplant and she wanted to let him know that she would be willing to give him one of hers if needed.  Now that is true friendship, isn't it?

I didn't have any problems designing the Christmas aspect of the card, but it took me forever to figure out how to get "kidneys" on there, but after several tries, thought of taking stickers I have had forever from Creative Memories (I was telling my friend Stephanie today that I have been using a lot of stuff I have had in my room for ages but haven't used - I am doing much better at using forgotten stuff), putting glitter around the letters and then smudging around them to give it this type of look.  I thought it turned out okay.  I do see after looking at the picture that I need to go back and touch up around the ornaments with some gold as well.

I hope everyone is well and enjoying your weekend.

Janet

Carlene's birthday

Hi everyone:

It has been a very long week for me and I am very glad Friday finally got here :) but I am sitting here thinking Saturday is over already and Sunday is coming way too fast.

My great friend Carlene had her birthday a few weeks back and made her this card.  I used a sketch challenge for this card, but can't remember which one.  I did a new technique (well, to me it was) in that I took some seam binding, wet it and crumbled it up, but it doesn't look like some others that I have seen.  I will have to keep working with that.

Well, I am off - I have been going through my photos to try and clean them out again :)  It seems like every time I sit down to do this, I go, goodness, when did I take this, it's been so long since I have looked through them :)

Have a great one

Janet

Crafty Friends Challenge

Morning all:

Today I was talking with my great friend Beate on Facebook and she showed us a beautiful card that she created for the Crafty Friends Challenge she is hosting this week.  We had talked a while back about Simon Says Stamp because she had created a card using one of their exclusive dies (they are all so wonderful) and of course had to head over and take a look.  I purchased a few of the dies and am finally playing with the curvy snowflake die and thought Beate's challenge would be a great way of breaking it in.  Beate's challenge was to create a clean and simple card, which I thought would be so easy, but to be honest, I don't believe I have created too many clean and simple cards before.  I am so used to layering and putting so much on my card, but must say, I do like doing these.  After I figured out what I was going to do, it took me no time to put this together, which is great.

I hope you all will head over and participate in Beate's challenge.

Have a great day.

Janet

Supplies -    SU whisper white cardstock, SU champagne glitter paper, 

                 SU silver glitter paper

                 Curvy Snowflake die from Simon Says Stamp

                 Small folded banners holiday stamp and banner die

                 SU cherry cobbler ink

                 SU dimensionals

                 want2scrap pearl

Wow, what a day :)

It has surely been busy here, grocery shopping this morning, cleaning up the house, putting up Christmas decorations, creating with Elizabeth, Madison & Halie and cleaning up the house again.  Elizabeth has a craft fair coming up at college this Friday and she asked me to make her some things to sell; so she came over to help me get started.  Here are just a few things we made today.

My good friend Stephanie showed me an ornament she was going to make last week and knew that I must make it for the craft fair Elizabeth was having.  After figuring out how to work the Rosetta die in my cuttlebug machine, I think they turned out very nice.  Thanks Stephanie for letting me borrow them as well as the idea. 

My other good friend Jennifer let me borrow her pillow box die and I am going to work on some fun things tomorrow that I'll be sure and post.

I'm exhausted after all the fun, so I'm going to call it a night :)  I hope everyone has a great evening