Happy 2012!

Looking back on 2011, I realize there are many "firsts" in the year.  My son finished his first year of college (yeah!) and I too my first pottery class- all my bowls are lop-sided!  I started stamping and cardmaking in earnst (I got into stamping a few years back and have many, many old SU sets).  I have been an avid scrapbooker for about 18 years and never had felt like I had enough time (or space) to do both.  Now that I am at a new place in life, I am thoroughly enjoying cardmaking.  A friend and fellow crafter introduced me to OWH this fall and I sent my first batch (a whole 12!) to OWH in October!  I tried to follow along with the Veteran's day blog hop, but found it difficult to do on my Blackberry.  I soon learned that stampers and crafters are also BLOGGERS! 
I bought my first laptop this Christmas (still need internet hookup) and started this, my first, blog.  I have discovered many new and woderful stamp companies, Our Daily Bread Designs and Sweet and Sassy Stamps being 2 of my current favs! 
Although I have barely enough cards that I sent to OWH this year to share on my blog (and even fewer that I have pictures of) here are my "TOP 10 favs" of 2011:



Have a Happ and Blessed New Year!  Here's to more stamping and cardmaking and to being a part of the crafting and OWH community!  Thanks for Looking!



Well, Christmas has come and gone, but it is not New Years yet!  Time to put a Christmas card or two on the blog.

This was one of my Operation Write Home cards made with my new set from Sweet and Sassy Stamps.  The image is on a certainly celery base and dp is from Stampin Up.  The snowman's scarf is paper pieced with the dp. A little bit of ribbon finishes this one off. 

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I have been wanting to try La Blanche stamps for a while, and when they showed up on the Blitsy website, I grabbed a couple.  I inked up this Santa with Memento black ink and colored his hat and face with copics.  I added a little bit of green to the background and then put lots of snowy glitter on the card, which unfortunately does not show up in the photo.  Then I border punched some old olive cardstock to back the image with, and then put it on a cherry cobbler card base.  I really liked the way this Santa turned out- I was unsure about such a large image initially.