Every year I go thru the agony of trying to figure out what in the world to make for a Christmas/Holiday Card. Not everyone I know is Christian and PC Girl that I am, some years I make two seperate cards, some years I make one for everything. Now this year I am making two cards but not because I am being a PC Girl, but rather because I just got a really cute new stamp in. Enough about that...come back next week to see it.
This year I was inspired for my first card by a Food Network Show that featured gingerbread houses and a stamp set I got a month or so ago from Martha Stewart's line. The stamp set has gingerbread men, round candies and gum drops (and more). I cut the house itself out from a pattern I made at work on Monday (boss is in Orlando, shhhh don't tell him LOL). I stamped and cut the gingerbread men and the candies, and then I used Liquid Applique that I got from CTMH and heated it to create the snow (ahem icing) on the roof. I also used LA for the snow under the gingerbread me as well as for their icing. I used Candycane Stickles for their eyes and buttons. I also used Stickles on the candies (stardust and diamond)
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I liked it but it just didn't look icing enough for me, so back to Mike's I went on the hunt for something a little different. I did find a dimentional paint in the paint section that worked, but stupid me used the whole bottle and then threw it out before I remembered to write down the name. So my apologies but I am not about to go rummaging around in the dumpster at the bottom of the street where all 144 of us townhouse dwellers put our garbage. (Although it would have made for a hysterical scrap page). I added some course Martha Stewart glitter to the icing to look like course sugar crystals. These cards are for my immediate and extended family. I hope they like them.
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On another note, today I was reading a blogging thread on SCS that just burned my cookies (no pun intended based on my card) about a blogger who stole an original banner from another blogger, cropped the original bloggers name off the bottom and then called the banner her own! Even put a copyright on it. I just don't understand people. Several SCS sistahs went to the culprits blog and posted that she should do the right thing. And you know what? Not a word from the blogger. The original creator of the banner has asked her repeatedly to take down the banner since September. I just don't think this is right. On top of that, its a SU demo who is the culprit and the blog is her SU blog. I just don't think that this whole mess is becoming of a SU Demo, and thankfully I know that most demos are not like this one person.
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