Winter Themed Cards

We had such a fun weekend! My brother and his family were in town for a long weekend visit. I love it when they are in town. We spend all the time we can with them while they are here. My kids love spending time with their cousins. They spend hours and hours and hours in the sandbox at my parents playing with cousins. The amount of sand that those kids were covered in was amazing. I loved hugging all those sand covered kiddos. Nothing makes me happier than spending the weekend with all of my family.
Unfortunately, a long busy weekend was the perfect storm for me to end up with some complications from my treatments...so I landed in Urgent Care yesterday. Yesterday was rough! I was really really frustrated and just mad. Today is a new day and I'm doing better. I'm excited to spend some time at my desk creating. That's the best medicine for me!
Today I'm happy to share a couple of cards that I created with the Carta Bella Bundled Up collection. This collection is perfect for winter photos, perfect! It's full of shades of blue with just a splash of red! It's adorable!

These cards were so easy to create! It's simply a few stickers, a doily, and some patterned paper backgrounds. I did stamp the sentiments on these cards but the stamped sentiment could easily be replaced with sticker sentiments to make them even easier.

Isn't that snowman adorable?!?!

 

 And who doesn't love a cup of hot chocolate in the winter? I know that's one of the only things I like about winter.

Happy Monday! I'm hoping you can spend some time creating too!

Winter! Wait, Where's the SNOW?

I know most of the country is buried in snow and cold weather. Here in Idaho it's been very mild. We've had a few really cold days  and a few snow storms but for the most part we're still staring at dry brown grass. Hopefully, the weather will change and we'll get some snow. Snow is vital for this small farming community!
When the winter theme was assigned to me for the American Crafts blog I had to dig out some photos from last year because I don't have any photos in the snow this year.  Here's what I came up with

 I created this project with the Cut & Paste collection

 The journaling on the page is on the back of the tag in the vellum pocket.

 The second project I created with the Peppermint Express collection. I went a little snowflake crazy ;) Die cut vellum snowflakes, snowflake stickers, snowflake stamps...lots and lots of snowflakes. I wish you all could see this one in real life. There's a lot of dimension and texture on this one.

Hugs, thanks for stopping by!

Sequins &Transparencies

Hi there! I hope you're cozy warm and safe today. It's -2 degrees at my house today with a windchill of -12. It's supposed to be a whole 10 degrees for the high today...needless to say, I'm not leaving my house today. It's a good day for me to turn the heat up and spend some time at my scrapbooking desk. What are you creating today?

I have project to share with you from Bella Blvd. I used the new Christmas Countdown collection to create this project. I also used a transparency, sequins and my sewing machine to create a huge shaker box that is the base of my layout.

I used a printable transparency and printed my journaling so it's on the top layer of the shaker box.

 I then built the rest of my layout on the transparency and stitched it to my background with a few sequins in between the cardstock and the transparency.

 And here's the completed project.

Stay warm and have a great Wednesday!