And still more holiday cards!

As I posted on Wednesday's WOYWW post, I am working on getting my holiday cards done so I can start writing in them and getting them sent out.  I leave to have a visit with my mom on Friday, so I'm in a bit of a time crunch.  I'm using the City Sidewalks paper from Close To My Heart and various embellishments. I am actively trying not to use any card stock other than white so that people can see what can be made with one pack of paper, one pack of white card stock, some card bases with envelopes, and various stamps and embellishments.

The first few cards are all made using the two sheets of "cards" meant for pocket scrapbooking.  They come as one sheet of 12x12 paper and you cut them out.  Each is printed with a horizontal and a vertical side, so I played with that a little.  Obviously, the 4x6 cards had to be trimmed down to fit the standard 5.5" x 4.25" card blank, and I made a little boo-boo on the Merry Christmas one... I'll let you see if you can see it.

The cards are on the lower right.  You can see the "zip strip" at the top of each piece of paper is different.

Just the printed paper, a little shimmer trim, and some gems to liven it up 

I love playing with the "zip strip"

I loved these snowflakes and wanted to keep it simple!

How gorgeous are the wreaths in the background?! 

Such sweet papers that all go together beautifully

Check back Friday for the rest of the cards... I'm just getting started!

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Z4008 - Cozy Christmas Thin Cuts & Stamp Set bundle

D1697 - Perfect Presents My Acrylix Stamp Set

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Z1985 - Gold Shimmer Trim

Z1848 - Red Shimmer Trim

Z1799 - Silver Shimmer Trim

Z3024 - White Shimmer Trim

Z2013 - Silver Sequins

Z2012 - Gold Sequins

Z3274 - Sparkles

Z1263 - Bitty Sparkles

Z3090 - Red Enamel Gems

Z3089 - Grey Enamel Gems

Z3094 - Poppy Thick Twine

X254 - White Cards and Envelopes Value Pack

Z553 - Bonding Memories Glue Pen

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Z2060 - Thin 3-D Foam Tape

Z1836 - Non-Stick Micro-tip Scissors

Z1783 - SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer

Y1501 - My Acrylix Block Starter Kit

New year... Life Book 2014

At my mother's urging, I've decided to participate in Life Book 2014.  Life Book is the brain-child of Tamara Laporte and consists of weekly lessons and inspirations to help you grow as an artist and as a person.  I haven't gotten access of my own yet, but mom came over the other night and we worked on our week 1 pieces.  There was guided meditation (which we kinda failed at because of critter and husband distractions) and then we were supposed to create a picture of our inner art guardian.  She (he/it) is supposed to guide us and protect us from criticism and encourage us to continue creating.  We were also supposed to choose a word - something we want to focus on in the next year. 

I chose "Confidence" because I would like to have more of it.  I never believe my work is good enough, I feel like I'm imposing if I try to join a conversation, and I especially don't like "pushing" my work on others.  I KNOW mentally that I am a good artist, that people like me, and they like when I share my work, but it's hard to make my inner critic shut up long enough for me to accomplish much sometimes.  Please let me know what you think... but be kind, as I'm just starting to work on this confidence thing.