It seems strange to be making a winter card right now, this has got to be one of the mildest winters in Ky I can ever remember! But the challenge this time over at Lawnscaping is Winter Wonderland so I broke out my Making Frosty Friends and Critters in the Forest sets. This cute little snowy owl is sporting earmuffs and sitting on a tree stump that’s covered in liquid applique snow and glitter. The background paper is from Close To My Heart and I thought it went perfectly with the stamped images.

Here’s another collage inspired by Emily Dickinson. This one is on a chunky canvas and I tried something new for the background, I stitched organza fabric onto of the vintage music paper. I think it adds a nice soft romantic touch. The focal point is a stained wooden tag with vintage book paper, a silhouette on canvas, the quote and a bird charm. I also added a muslin flower with a vintage button and wrapped some lace around the canvas too.

Here’s another recent collage. Guess I’m on a quote kick, this one is inspired by a William Blake quote. It’s on 5″ x 7″ canvas board painted grey with vintage music sheet background. The cage is on a transparency and it’s embellished with a silver bird charm, metal key, metal clip, vintage measuring tape and letter beads.

I adore Emily Dickinson’s poetry. This collage was inspired by one of her most famous quotes. It’s on a 5″ x 7″ canvas board. The main images are of a bird cage and womans silhouette with a bird sitting on top of the cage. I embellished it with vintage measuring tape, a flower I made from muslin and a vintage button and a fountain pen nib.

It’s a little late for holiday cards but I had to share this one. It’s the card I made for my husband this year, inspired by the “Major Award” in a Christmas Story. All the shapes were die cut with my Silhouette machine. On the outside of the envelope I stamped a wood background and the word “fragile”, must be French.

Wow, where did the month of December go?……..:)

I’ve really been enjoying making more of the round glass bubble charms, they are so tiny and sweet. Here’s a few of my recent favorites.

These can all be found in my Etsy Shop.

I’m so very excited to be in the current (Winter 2011) issue of Take Ten magazine! They even gave my little stamped sachet it’s very own page!

I haven’t had much time to participate in any changes lately but I finally had some free time this week to make a card for the latest Lawnscaping challenge. It’s inspired from the photo, I used red rhinestones for the apples, all stamps are Lawn Fawn, pattern papers are from CTMH and My Mind’s Eye.

Wow, it’s been forever since my last post! Hubby and I have been sick with chest colds and bronchitis for a couple of weeks :( But I wanted to pop in and share a card I made this week for my sister in law’s birthday, she loves fairies too and I’d just gotten this wonderful stamp from Emerald Faeries.

Over at Craft Gossip I’m continuing my month of Inkadinkado stamps and this week I tried out their not yet released Background Cling stamps. These are cling mounted stamp sets and each has a huge 6″x6″ stamp which are perfect for home decor projects. There really aren’t too many stamps like these out there. I loved working with them, they stamp beautifully.

I wanted to share my favorite project I made, it’s a mixed media collage on fabric. I stamped the large butterfly stamp onto unbleached muslin and added some color with Sharpie markers. I stitched the top stamped fabric onto another layer of muslin and stitched around the butterfly with embroidery floss and before I got all the way around I stuffed batting in the layers making the butterfly puffy. I added a word stamped on sticky back canvas and buttons and then put the fabric in an embroidery hoop.