Today's Card

Had a few minutes to spend in my craft room. Still using up some scraps and another new Cuttlebug embossing folder. I used my sanding block on the embossed design. I've had the sanding block forever and hardly ever remember it.

My new tools

My new addition to my tools was the Marvy mega circle scallop punch and the Cuttlebug embossing folders. My first project with them was my Christmas cards. I've been getting together with my dear friend Cindra for 13 years now designing and mass producing our Christmas cards. I'm so glad we've kept that tradition going. Here is my Christmas card for 2009.

And because I needed another reason to make more cards with my new tools, I made Thank You cards for all the wonderful, thoughtful gifts I received.

New die

I just discovered Spellbinder dies. Love them. They have nice shaped nested dies that double as a diecut or embossed or both. Papertrey Ink also has a clear stamp set that fits these dies perfectly. That's next on my wishlist. I used up more of the same birthday paper.

Getting Ready

I've finally been able to walk into my craft room. With a little rearranging and reorganizing I can actually see my table. Since it was time for another family birthday it was a good excuse to get in there and create a card. Plus I have to get jazzed for Christmas cards.

Gift Idea

I was in need of a little something for someone's birthday and I found great inspiration from www.twopeasinabucket.com. This is the idea I was inspired by.

She reused a Heidi Swapp flower case. I didn't have one but I was able to reuse a brad case - even though it was much smaller. And to think how many of those cases I've thrown away over the years. If anyone knows where the empty cases can be purchased from, please let me know. I would love to have some on hand for those quick and easy little goodies to give out.

More Cards I've Made

I'm glad I'm getting the motivation to make more cards since I have two more events coming up to give me inspiration. Here are two cards I've just recently made. Again just using scraps and the Mother's Day card was even pieces I recycled from a card my Mom gave me.

Great Site for Inspiration

I found a new site that I love to look at for inspiration and wanted to share it with you. It's called Pencil Lines (http://www.pencillines.com) and they post a sketch and several design layouts showing their interpretation to the sketch. There are a ton of links to other great sites and links to the blogs of the featured designer. You can spend hours getting lost in all the resources. I love looking at other people's work so this is a great site to visit often. Look to the right of this page and I have a list of links. I added Pencil Lines for easy access.

If you haven't already signed up with Google "Reader" it's a service that you can link your favorite blogs and when they are updated it will flag it for you so you know to go visit that site. If you go to Google look under the link "more" and it's there. It helps keep me up to date.