Stempel Spass

Hi everybody, today I have a card for you, which I made for the Paper Smooches  Picture Perfect challenge. Here is the gorgeous inspiration photo: And here is my card: I just love that little Santa gnome from the Forest Whimsy set! I have used it several times this year for Christmas cards, Click  HERE  and  HERE ,if you want to see them. This card is also going into the Stamps&fun=Creativity challenge - combine two stamps  into the CHNC challenge  extra for December - Anything Christmas and the   regular CHNC challenge - whatever is urgent to make Ribbon Carousel - Anything Goes Its snowing here in New Jersey today - its just beautiful outside with fine, pulvery snow coming down - perhaps we'll be lucky and have a white Christmas this year! Stay warm and thanks for visiting! Supplies:  Paper Smooches - Christmas sampler,  Paper Smooches - Forest Whimsy,  Memory Box ...

My time in Chicago went by very quickly - too quickly..... Every year I wish I could spend more time in this wonderful city. But its nice being back home too. So I had some time today and made a card for Dynamic Duos  and combined it with CAS-ual Fridays : All the die cuts, except the stars (Simon Says) are from Memory Box and the sentiment is by Mama Elephant - Merry Greetings. I hung the ornaments with silver thread - which required some fiddling around....and lastly I elevated the ornaments with foam dots.  And of course this card is largely made with snippets - it going into the  Snippets Playground ! --X-- I want to share some pics from Chicago with you: The modern Santa..... The stairway in the Contemporary Art Museum. The "Bean" by Anish Kapoor - one of my favorites... A view onto the side gallery of the Art Institute - looks almost like a picture, don't you think? And lastly the lions in fr...

Its my favorite part of blogging  - to welcome 2 new members to my blog: Annelies and  Cammy Annelies is from Belgium and unfortunately I still can't look at her blog - google does not let me - perhaps you are going to be more successful than I.... Cammy is from New Jersey - close by to where I live and we met at the Mama Elephant Birthday bash in Hoboken. We went to the Edison stamp show together and had a blast! Her beautiful blog is linked  - pay her a visit if you have time.  Of course I have a welcome picture for both of you: I took it last year at the Grounds for Sculpture , which is just a fantastic place to visit! Unfortunatley I don't know the artist who made this sculpture. I really like it - it looked gorgeous in the mist..... --X-- Guess what - it going to be more Holiday cards - I just don't think I'll ever have enough......I am so happy I started early this year - my pile has been growing nicely......... I ...