Attempts for C&S Christmas Cards

Hello Blog Ppl,
I wanted to share a few REALLY quick cards I made.  I got the idea from the Clean & Simple posts over at Stamping 411.   They are really great for a nice card in a short time.  Anyway here are what I came up with:

One of the ladies from the MFRC community asked me to come up with some ideas for cards to sell at one of the charity events we Canadians annually participate in here in Belgium, and I've started with the most basic, and will get progressively more detailed (read: expensive) as I go.  And for these the only cost is half of a sheet of CS each!  I dont think a card can get any cheaper to make than that!

I will post the next batch when I'm finished them!

Ciao

Gift for 1st Birthday

Hello again Blog World,
Now that I have this blog, I couldn't help putting pictures up of this really cute gift I made for one of my best friends' 1 year old girl.
I got the idea when I was giving my son's room a good organizing, sorting toys, etc.  I found a little block set that was not only missing a block - which was important as each block formed part of a picture, like puzzle pieces - but with which he was way past too old to play.  Then I got to thinking... Hmm, there are five blocks left, I bet I could cover them with cute girly papers and things and conveniently there are five letters in the name Jenna, who's birthday party I'm going to in a few weeks!  Perfect! :)

I started by ripping off the paper that was on there because it was glossy and I didn't think things would stick very well to it.  Then I covered it with all different styles from the Sweet Pea DSP Stack.

For the front - where the letters of her name are - I used two layers of mostly random Sweet Pea paper or correspondingly coloured CS, then added a Whisper White Scalloped Heart of Hearts before sticking on the letters.  I coloured the letters from the Loads of Letters Chipboard with Chocolate Chip Stampin' Write Marker.

For the top I used some Sweet Pea Stitched Felt, the Modern Label, Curly Label and 1 3/4" Scallop Circle Punches.  The Stamp sets I used are Little Angel, Tiny Tags, Vintage Labels, Short & Sweet and Outline Alphabet Lower (which is from 1998!).

I really love this gift!  So much in fact that I'm asking my Dad to make me some more blocks out of any scrap wood he might have laying around... they've been renovating their house since they bought it in 1988, so I think they might have some!  I would love to make these for other people, they'd be GREAT baby shower gifts!

Cheers,
Mandy

First Crafting Post!!

Here it goes... I've been checking out the blogspot.com blog called Stamping411 lately and it has hugely inspired me to get my butt in gear and start doing some of their challenges.  It's mostly just for fun, but it will hopefully get me going enough to book a class at the MFRC or with Andrew's class moms or something.

So I have done this Thursday's Color Inspiration Challenge #150!!   with one exception... the colours were Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery and Wild Wasabi and I have nothing in Wild Wasabi, so I swapped it for Old Olive.. I hope that's okay!

I'm going to try to post the colours on here:

And now I just have to take a picture of my card...

Stampin FUN!! (I hope the links work!)