Leaping Reindeers!

The Angel Company is famous for their free hostess stamp sets - and monthly specials. I was thrilled when, due to popular demand, TAC decided to offer the Stamp Stimulus and this set (which you could only earn by being a hostess) was offered to the general public for just...$6.75!
I know at Christmastime a lot of folks like to make "reindeer" food, which makes the saying included perfect. And, I just loved this reindeer and flourish. Here's my first card with it...and again, I used some of the stamps from Vintage Santa!



Card Materials: all stamps from The Angel Company
Stamps: Date Disks, Reindeer Food, Vintage Santa

I embossed the reindeer before cutting him out, and the flourishes on the red panel are also clear embossed. This set is available until December 30th and you'll find the rest of the Monthly Specials here on my website!

Another Fun Sketch

I found this sketch over at Card Patterns and it called for stars inside the circle but I thought the homemade candles fit perfectly! This is actually a sheet of paper from the Kaleidoscope Girlz pad from The Angel Company but I think this would work for a boy's card as well! I hand drew the flames and then just filled them in with some yellow gel pen...super easy and very "birthday-ie". I say that because my husband thinks that birthday cards should always be with candles or cakes!



Card Materials: (stamps and paper from The Angel Company)
Stamps: Date Disks
Paper: Kaladioscope Girlz (only $6.95 for 36 8x8 pages!), palette ink, edge distresser

Well, I'm off to drive about an hour for my son's immunization shots. He and I are both dreading it!

CPS113

Finally I was able to play along with another great sketch challenge over at CPS! I was the sponsor of CPS109 just a few weeks ago and had so much fun there!

I am sure I didn't come up with this idea myself (I subscribe to some 50 blogs and probably saw this on one of those inspiring sites) but it really was kinda neat! I wanted a sparkly cupcake top but didn't want it too sparkly. Does that make sense?!? So I took just one drop of Icicle stickles and added one small drop of water and mixed them together with a paint brush. Note: our empty Gift with Purchase stamp boxes worked perfect for this. No mess!

Just a couple of angles to show you the sparkle and effect...I hope I don't bore you!

I made this card for my sister, Jennifer, who's birthday is...yup, May 2nd! I saw another angel use the Date Disk stamp similiarly and thought it was great. I always just thought of "scrapbooking" with that set but this opens new possibilities!

After I took the first photo of the card, I realized that once again I went with a minimalist approach. So, I added a flower/button...

Card Materials:

Stamps: Date Disks, April special (that set is only $7 for 4 cupcakes and 2 sayings!)

Misc: Pink Bazzill paper, flower/button from Ava Embellishment Jar, Tombow markers, aquabrush (niji is the best!)

The flower isn't glued down yet...which do you like better?!