My Christmas cards and my thank you cards are the same design. I was so busy this fall and I've just gotten back into town from visiting my daughter in Cincinnati, Ohio. I was staying with her for a while after she had her first baby.



I used paper from Daisy D's and I used Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 8 for the green mat and used Memento ink to stamp the corner leaves and to sponge around the edge. I used Memento black for the Sentiment. I used stamps from The Angel Company. It's a very simple card, I hope you like the way it turned out.

Diana

Christmas Sweets

I know it's been a while, and I'm going to do better posting. I'm now a member of Card a Day Blog were several designers get together and post a card a day. I'm really hoping this will motivate me into getting back into card making and posting my creations on my blog. Anyway here is my card. The theme is Christmas Food and whenever I get invited to dinner or just to visit at someone's house I bring a gift, during Christmas it's usually a dessert.



For this card, I kept it simple, I paper pieced a pie, I just hand cut it out. I used a retired stamp from The Angel Company. The paper I used is Heidi Grace "Jolly and Bright.

People are really surprised whenever I show up with my treat for them, I think I get some invites back because they need a dessert :)

Be sure and visit A Card a Day Blog every day to get inspired with all the different cards posted.

Diana

Yardsales

Every weekend I look forward to going to yardsales. I'm decorating my dining room/kitchen area in Tuscan style, so always on the lookout for cute grape stuff, I buy newborn boy clothes for my daugher whose expecting in December. My son has 2 children a girl and a boy that I buy stuff for. So here is my haul from this weekend.

Baby's first Christmas bunting and bib for $1.00
9 shirts, 5 pairs of pants, 2 pairs of boots, 3 dresses and a jacket for $4.00
2 nice pictures for my son's house $3.00
Washstand with a marble top that will look really nice once cleaned up $3.00. Not really a lot of stuff to find at yardsales this weekend, already looking forward to next week.

Diana

Pocket Peepers

Here is a card made from the new set "Pocket Peepers". I colored in the baby with prisma pencils, pop dotted him so it looks like he's looking over the border, and then used a thank you from "Thinking of You" retired set. I'm going to give this to my daugter at her baby shower so she can send out thank you's for gifts for the baby.

Diana

Bear 4

Here is another bear, I guess I can get going on them when I really try, I think I like this one the best. I used the bear and saying from Bountiful bears, and the border punch is from stampin up

Diana

Bear # 3

OK, this one I kept simple and easy. I'll be making these with my card club to send to Iraq for the Soldiers to send back home.

D-75 Mega Circle 2.5"
D-701 Giga Scalloped Circle 3"
SC900 Tuxedo Black Memento Ink
Brown Sheer Ribbon
Brown Plaid Paper
v-9983 Smoothies Cardstock Nougat
I used a saying from retired set Thinking of You
PrismaColor pencils

Enjoy,
Diana

Another Bear

Today's bear is using a retiform technique, put down 3 sides of sticky notes and sponge color into the design I used a oval for one of the sides of sticky notes and then stamped a bear in the center of it. Here is the supply list
Bountiful bears stamp
Memento rich cocoa
Memento Cantalope
Memento potters clay
Nestabilities Label #20
Nestabilities Oval
Hydra Sponge

Have fun making your cards, Let me know if you'd like to order any of the suppliels from The Angel Company.

Diana

Bountiful Bears

This week I'm concentrating on making items out of "Bountiful Bears" for a friend of mine that is having trouble using this stamp, I'm trying to do at least 3 projects for our stamp club. Here is the first one with instructions for making it




Dark Brown paper 4" x 5.5"
plaid paper 3.75" x 5.25"
off white cut with nestability label 20 2nd to largest die
leaving die on paper sponge memento rich cocoa
off white cut with nestability label 20 3rd to largest die
leaving die on paper sponge memento rich cocoa
Stamp Bear from Bountiful Bears on kraft with memento tuxedo black
Stemp saying "for someone "beary" special" on off white .75" x 2"
glue on 1" x 2.25" dark brown and pop dot

Let me know what you think about this card. Also let me know if you want to order any of the inks, stamps or nestability from The Angel Company.

Diana

Becky Fleck video giveaway

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Another Sunflower

I wanted to participate in The Angel Company's Card a day in May, so I followed their sketch and made another sunflower card. I used a swatch of Emma paper and used the Sunshine Stamp set for the images, colored with colored pencil and blended with goo gone.

Diana

I got this Sunshine stamp set about a month ago, cut it apart and filed it, never once stamped it, so I got it out and decided to use it, I made about 7 cards, a couple were cased cards and these are 4 of mine.

This one I used the stamp as a background and made a tag out of one, very simple.

Used the same stamp and just decorated around it.

Inked the edges with burnt umber palette and used a Martha Stewart punch for the border

Used another border punch and my newest 2 1/4" scalloped punch 2" circle punch and dew drops.

Hope you enjoyed my stamps,
Diana

New card

The Angel Company just came out with a new list of stamps that are being discontinued. Wouldn't you know the 2 sets I just bought last month are in that list. I've made a card with 2 of those stamps, hope you like it. I used Emma Paper, coordinating bazzill and stamps from Delicate Florals and Swooping Sentiments.
Let me know what you think.
Diana

I'm working on making page kits to teach at classes and to sell at crops. Here are my 2 newest ones, the castle digital cutter file you can find at my store in Paperthreads

and the Ballet digital cutter file is a complete collection with more in it than shown also
at my store at Paperthreads

Let me know what you think about them, I'm selling the kits for $10 each. If you want to purchase the digital files, I can make one up for the My Little Princess, just let me know.

Diana

Baby Layout

This is a layout I made using TAC stamp set I Heart You. I also punched out hearts with a fiskars punch and cut out the title baby with my klick-n-kut.
Enjoy,
Diana

Happy Birthday

Here is a new file I've uploaded to the store, it includes a cupcake, shot glass and balloons, and several titles and birthday years. I did this layout for my son's 21st birthday, we went out to dinner and when the people at our table found out it was his birthday, they bought him a drink.
You can purchase this file here

Have a great day!!
Diana

New Files Available

Queen Anne's Lace Files


Love Birds and Cages




Also have a new Butterfly collection, can you tell I like butterflies, there are even a few dragonflies thrown in.
Butterflies and Dragonflies


I'll update when more files are in the store, thanks for looking.
Diana

Christmas Layout

Here is a very simple layout I did of Christmas 2009. I used paper from Hobby Lobby which already had Christmas dates on it, and I used a punch from Stampin Up to make my flowers, I inked the edges of them and used buttons as centers.
Enjoy,
Diana

New Files

I've been working on some new files and the first of them is this layout with my Queen Anne's Lace on it. I'll post here when it's ready to purchase in the store. I'm also working on birds, greenery, flowers, they will all be in a bigger collection called Silhouettes once I have them all done. Let me know what you think.

Diana

Sorry

Sorry I didn't get my blog hop addresses posted on Friday, everything was happening all at once when I was leaving for the weekend crop I went to, it was awesome BTW. I did get my free file uploaded and will leave it until Monday. Be sure and check out all the other designers that are participating in this blog hop and get their free files. All the files in my part of the store are on sale 50% off through Monday, so be sure and stock up while they are on sale.
http://www.paperthreads.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=6

Shirley Clark
http://www.paperthreads.com/blog/shirleysdesigns

Chrissie
http://www.keepsakes-by-design.blogspot.com

Shelly
http://shelly-shellysart.blogspot.com

Eddita
http://accentsbyeddita.blogspot.com

Ileana
http://iscrapdesigns.blogspot.com

JennieBean
http://jenniebeancrafts.weebly.com/blog.html

Jen Adkins Designs
http://jenadkinsdesigns.blogspot.com

Just Laury
http://justlaury.paperthreads.com

Sam and Hailey Designs
http://samhailey.paperthreads.com

Roses

Sorry I haven't posted much lately, but here is my latest delight,,,my grandaughter, not the roses, although they are pretty too, but she is just too precious. I used paper from www.papertemptress.com I just love her mica/metallics for cutting out my files. You can get the file here Roses-N-More Or if you just want the page kit with instructions on how to make the roses Order kit on ETSY

Blog Hops

How exciting is that, every day there is a blog hop showcasing the stamp set by many other TAC Angels, I know I don't have time every day, but here is one I had that fits with True Beauty.

Enjoy,
Diana

Snow

We've had more than our share of snow here,so I made a couple of layouts with snow themes in them, below is one of them, I've also assembled page kits and am going to teach this one.

Diana

Here is a page I made using files I made for the membership club, I'm also going to teach a class with this, already have 10 page kits made up for it. I'm also doing 4 crops where I will sell page kits, I'll have this file available for purchase soon in the store, soon as the memberships run out. I'll have another page kit availabe for you to see sometime the first of the week.



Diana

Procrastination

I'm so bad at this, I wait til the last minute to do anything, sometimes beyond that. Deborah I'm mailing your package out today, sorry :( I have a doctors appointment today, I'm supposed to go every 3 months, and it's been about 6 months, only reason I'm going,,I ran out of some of my medicine and need refils, is that sad? I have been working on some files and page kits (I teach at hobby lobby) and I want to do a beginner scrapbooking class. Have any of you done one? What should I include in this class, it will be all show and tell. I'll post some of my layouts I've been working on later.

DIana

Hope your January is starting out good

I've had a wonderful start to the New Year, I almost have my membership files finished. just one more file and then I'm done, but you can upload them until the end of January. Thanks for everyone that signed up to my membership club. I have a few layouts I want to show you that are in the membership club after I've taken the pictures, that is. Here is a sneak peek of one of the files that I've uploaded to the membership club.



You can still join the membership, it would be wonderful if you did.

Diana

It's a new year

Happy New Year to everyone, I'm on the last leg of my membership club and need to get the rest of my files done by the 15th. My friend and I are also trying to get a bunch of cards done so we can send out another box to soldiers overseas. If you have any old card fronts that you don't need anymore, we would love it of you'd send them to us and help us out. Just e-mail me at Akadi14@aol.com for my address. I probably won't have much to post before the middle of the month, but keep checking back I have a surprise for you.

Diana