Xmas card my son made

Here is the card I promised to show you all yesterday, my son made this card and wanted me to share it with you all. He is 8 years old, and is a great beginner card maker in the making :D!!!

Inky Hugs,

catherine

MERRY CHRISTMAS :)

Just thought I would post a quick note to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas from my family to yours and please stay safe over the holidays :)! Have some exciting news to share with you in the New Year (and NO I AM NOT PREGNANT!!!) :)!

Will have a post later on today of more cards :D !

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

Christmas card

It is a rainy wet grey day here, and I wasn't in the mood to be wrapping presents with my three children running around the house. Lol, that could be asking for trouble :p! So I decided I would make a Christmas card, while 2 of my 3 were having a snooze out in the living room and my oldest was also making his own xmas card behind me.

Here is the Christmas card that I created, am very happy with how it turned out :)! I will be posting my son's card too later, as he asked me if I could show all my crafty friends out there what he can do. Lol!

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

my Christmas cards for '09

I hadn't been into one of the crafty stores that I frequent in awhile, so one day about a week ago I decided to head on over to Carousel Rubber stamp store to check out if she had anything new in. Well, I found this AMAZING Santa stamp in there and Dejah(the owner of Carousel) helped me figure out what I could do with this image. So here is what I did with this Santa image:

1) stamped him out using Archival Jet Black ink

2) used a clear glaze pen on all his beard/mustache and hair

3)colored in his beard and hair using my gray Tombow marker

4) used a gold glitter pen for his glasses

5) used the glass finish on his glasses lenses and eyes

6)used puffy paint on his hat

7) colored in his face using my SU skin colored marker

8) then I attached him to green cardstock that I picked up from Photo Memories

LOVE how he turned out too...can't wait to play around with this stamp a bit more to see what else I can do with him. This last picture you see, I wanted to show you what his puffy hat looked like up close :)! Thanks for stopping by :)!

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

xmas tree

Here is our Xmas tree that we got from our backyard, what a great looking tree :)! The kids decorated it, they put all the ornaments in clumps as high as each of the 3 could reach, then I had to go and re-decorate. Our middle guy, made the tree topper and he wanted us to use it, so we are :p!

Stockings hung by the chimney with care, check! My dh made the wooden hooks that hook onto the mantle of the fireplace for our stockings to hang from. Yep, there's my dd still trying to hang ornaments in clumps on the bottom branches.

MERRY CHRISTMAS from my family to yours, be safe!

Inky Hugs,

Cathernie

Hand Stamped by Lacey blog candy giveaway

Please head on over to the blog called "Hand Stamped by Lacey", she is having a giveaway over on her blog...check out the goodies what she is giving away :D!!

Inky Hugs,

Catherine

Crafting in Croatia blog candy giveaway

Mary G. is celebrating her 9 month blogaversary on her blog called "Crafting in Croatia" :), by giving away Gina K's "Lovely Shelf" stamp set and a sampler pack of Gina K's Pure Luxury Cardstock.

Inky Hugs,

Catherine