A Few more Tags

My daughter got a last minute cupcake order this weekend!  So instead of making cards, I'm flying around making sure we have ingredients (we've never baked red velvet cupcakes before!) and a few other things to take to parties this week... so I just have a few tags to share.  They're similar to a set that I did last year, but I made up sets of these to give to my sisters:

Patterned papers are Mistletoe; Cardstock is Kraft, Colonial White & Olive; Inks are Olive & Cranberry; - all CTMH.  Stamp sets are Vintage Ornaments, Waltzingmouse; Charm Uppercase Alphabet; Just for the Holidays by CTMH; Charming Oval stamp set & die by Verve.

Card & a matching Christmas tag

This was my first time using a digi-stamp!  I love Paper Smooches' cute whimsical images, so I downloaded this a few days ago, coloured it with my red Copics, and made up a quick card & tag:

Patterned paper is Holly Jolly, Echo Park; Cardstock is Black and White Daisy, CTMH; Digistamp, Paper Smooches; Baker's Twine, The Twinery.

Masculine Birthday Card

I needed a quick birthday card for my nephew... so I used this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch and some My Mind's Eye papers:

Patterned papers are Six by Six, My Mind's Eye; Cardstock is Cocoa, CTMH; Stamp sets are Damask Tiles & Happy Birthday, CTMH: Inks are Grey Flannel & Cocoa, CTMH; Pearls from Michaels.

Holiday Magic Tags

This stamp set was Close To My Heart's October stamp of the month... and it's one of my favourites for tags this year:

Stamp sets are Holiday Magic and A Holiday; Cardstock is Kraft, Topiary, Cranberry :& White Daisy; Inks are Holiday Red, Topiary & Black; Red button - all CTMH.

A Christmas Tag

I don't think that I'm quite finished with cards yet... but I'm definitely in wrapping mode, so I have a tag to share tonight.  I really love this vintage ornament Spellbinder's die - last year's version:

Patterned papers are Season's Greetings, Echo Park; Cardstock is Cranberry & Colonial White, CTMH; Stamp set is A Holiday, CTMH; Ink is Topiary, CTMH; Button, CTMH; Spellbinder's Die.

Heart2Heart Challenge & Inspired By

I've combined two challenges for today's card... both Heart2Heart and Inspired By have holiday inspiration photos in classic holiday colours, so I dug into my Believe papers and this is what I came up with:

Here was my inspiration:

The wreath is for Heart2Heart and the cake is for Inspired By

Products: Patterned papers are Believe; Cardstock is Topiary & White Daisy; Stamp set is Holiday Magic; Inks are Holiday Red, Pear, Topiary & Black - all CTMH; Baker's Twine is from The Twinery; Martha Stewart border punch.

A couple more things to share... I was named one of the monthly Top Ten for November on the Heart2Heart Challenge blog for this card!

And I thought I would share a little bit about my day job :o)  I work part-time for my girlfriend Teresa who owns a home staging/interior decorating business.  I'm generally involved in the staging side of things, not so much in the decorating end, but I am the company photographer, so when a design job is complete I get to go in and take photos of the finished project.  Here is what we worked on today, a fabulous condo in downtown Toronto.  I'm really proud of my photography, I still make plenty of mistakes, but am getting better all the time and hope to do a bit more of this in the Real Estate business.  The company is called Design To Go - check out her website!

Have a wonderful weekend :o)

Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #76

I didn't want to pass on this week's Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge, because I love the little ornament sketch... so I'm just getting this done in time :o)  Claire Brennan is also having a tag challenge on her blog right now - so if you love your Waltzingmouse stamps as much as I do, you may want to play along!  I stayed fairly CAS this week, with some vintagey patterned papers from Cosmo Cricket, and a wonderful Waltzingmouse label stamp:

My inspiration actually came from a card that I made a couple of weeks ago, and wanted to make a companion tag:

I have one more of these little 'Joy' die cuts sitting on my craft table, so stay tuned - I think there'll be a 3rd project coming soon!  Here was our sketch:

Patterned papers are Dear Mr. Claus, Cosmo Cricket; Stamps are Holiday Labels and Vintage Ornaments, Waltzingmouse Stamps; Inks are Black and Cranberry, CTMH; Cranberry ribbon, CTMH; Spellbinders die.