Sneak Peek

Have you seen the new Holiday Mini Catalog yet?  It has some wonderful stamp sets in it.  Today I finally got some time to sit and play with 2 new sets.  Everything used is SU unless I say otherwise. 
Ingredients:  Stamp set-Snowbursts
Paper:  Cranberry Crisp & Whisper White   Ink:  Cranberry Crisp  Ribbon:  Cranberry Crisp double stitched.  Oh I almost forgot the best part of this
card – I was able to use my new toy – The Silhouette (a digital craft cutter by Quickutz).  It is awesome and after I get use to it I will post my samples.  For now I was able to cut out the letters "JOY".  Just notice how thin they are.  They were cut out using adhesive backed paper.  I painted crystal effects over it and sprinkled dazzling diamonds on for a little bling!  In the centers of the snowbursts I dabbed crystal effects and again sprinkled them with glitter.  One can never have too much glitter in their life.  The white gel pen is my favorite and I love using it to add a little extra to cards.  Here I used it to dot the end of the larger snowbursts.  A very simple card ~ one you could easily make a ton of for Christmas!

My next card took me some time to finish as I saw a card on SCS by Faithyc that inspired me.  I wasn’t happy with my first version at all.  After playing with it for a while I came up with this.  Let me know what you think.  As you can see mine turned out quite different from Faithyc’s .  I just love it.
Everything used was SU except the twine.  I am not sure where that came from.
The Ingredients:
Stamp Sets:  Autumn Harvest
Baroque Motifs, and Season by Season
Paper:  Garden Green, Wasabi, Whisper White, & Watercolor paper.
Pumpkins are done with SU Markers and water pen

Quote of the day:  In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
–Albert Einstein