A Season of Hope

  A Season of hope, A promise of Peace. Christmas to me is a softening of the spirit and the presence of Christ. The Bible promises a peace that transcends all human understanding when we know Him and an opportunity to reach others with His beauty and grace. I can't image life without the promise of His Love.
  Back to the cards, I love the lights, the music and all the beautiful decorations and crafts you can make at this time of year. The Northwoods stamps are in at Make Time to Create and they are truly beautiful. They have a board of example cards made along with two I made Friday at late create. The one above is the first one I made. It has pretty snowflake paper ( My Little Yellow Bicycle-Once Upon A Christmas) on the bottom with the Northwood stamped image layered on top of it and the brown strip punched and applied and the cardinal wreath punched out of the My Little Yellow Bicycle - Once upon a Christmas paper line. The saying is also from Northwoods. This card has been glittered although the picture doesn't do it justice. There are lots of winter scenes from Northwoods at Make Time to Create and several sayings also. I bent the paper saying and taped it down in two different places to give it a wavy two dimensional look. There are many ways to use the winter scenes which I will be showing you the next several days, so come back and see them and hopefully be inspired.

Blessings

  At Make Time to Create on Friday night I bought a new pad of paper - Bo Bunny's Serenity pad. The style of paper has an oriental flair to it. I thought it was very calming and interesting to see paper inspired by a different country. My daughter went to China last spring break so I wanted to work with a new style of design. This pad has some unique colors put together and I liked the flowers, They reminded me of dogwood blossoms in the spring. The path was from clear sets from Inky Antics. My daughter said in China people aren't in such a rush and the path seemed to match the culture. This was a fun pad to work with. The Blessings stamp is from My Daily Bread - Mini Tags set. I have gotten a lot of usage with this stamp set. It comes with several different sayings and it makes this set indispensable.
  We has a design meeting Sunday so the team will be coming out with some new designs. Mind will be Christmas. Can't wait! Below is a peek of the new products I will be using. :)

The Sweetest Thing

 
 Make Time to Create has several lines of paper from My Minds Eye. This card is made from The Sweetest Thing paper, accessories and stamps. I love the fact that they not only have the paper but stickers, chipboard and stamps to go with the paper. It makes the card effortless to make and the scrapbook pages in the store with this paper are beautiful. My friend Melody made the pages and you have to go check them out. She is so talented. I love the chipboard pieces on the top right of the card they really add a lot to the card and they are adhesive also. I also stamped the envelop which peaks your interest when you receive the card. You know it is going to be something special.
  When you go into Make Time to Create it is hard to decide what you are going to buy, but be sure they will have what you need or they are able to order specific things for you. Dolly and Mary are great about helping your project to be a success.