New Year's Cards

Since I'm really loving my new Old West Cricut cart, I made these New Year's card for family members. The inside used Quickutz dies. All the paper was from my stash, the shiny papers inside were from DCWV Metallic Stack. I pulled the embellishments from an assortment of places and it's impossible to give the references since they have been sitting around for years & years. Fun, though!

Happy New Year everyone!

Yee-Haw Thank You Cards

Yee-Haw!!!! For Christmas, my parents (with a LOT of help from my scrappin' sister) got me the Old West cartridge. Wow! What a fun cart!

I made our thank you cards for our Christmas loot using this AWESOME cart! The "Yee-Haw" is from the Cricut cart, the cactus is from an old Sizzix die cut, the cowboy hat is also from Sizzix and cut from foam. The cactus stamps are from a wonderful store in old town Santa Fe, NM (sorry, but I can't remember the name of the store but it is right on the main plaza and is always a lot of fun to visit). The ribbon was from my stash and the brads are Making Memories which have been in my stash forever, I think!

This was a lot of fun to make and I am totally LOVING Old West!!!

I've also included a photo of Big Bend National Park (bleow) which was my inspiration -- such a wonderful, beautiful, peaceful park. One of my favorites. The photo is taken from the Chisos Mountain Lodge area toward "the windows" -- this was the first time we did the hike but the sunset view is quite famous and during busy seasons, you have to stake out your viewing spot up to an hour before sunset. Luckily, the park was not so busy when we visited this trip so we had some awesome views to ourselves!!!

P.S. I found a free program called Picasa that will allow you to downgrade your high res photos so they can be posted on the internet. How cool!

Christmas Cards

Here are TERRIBLE photos of our Christmas cards. I took the photo with my cell phone while we were writing the cards. There are several "types" using the Joann's paper pack Peppermint Forest. I had cut the "Peace" using Cricut Winnie-the-Pooh font and just 4 fit on a 6x12 sheet. So, there ended up being 7 sets of 4 -- each a different color combo or "type". The tree is from Cricut Christmas Cheer cart, the star bling is Martha Stewart from Michael's, the bling on the "peace" is from Heidi Swapp, ink from Quick Quotes Powder Puff, and ribbon is from my extensive ribbon stash. The brad, metal loop, and flower & pearl are from Stampin' Up.

I enjoyed the fun pink & blue of this festive paper pack.

I cut all the pieces in the evening during the week of December 7, then assembled in the evenings of the week of 14 December while we were on vacation. This was no easy task since we were staying in the Big Bend National Park lodge and spent the days mountain biking. I had body parts aching that I didn't even know I had body parts -- obviously, I am not getting younger!! One night, my husband and I fell asleep playing Yahtzee and didn't wake up for 2.5 hours. The Yahtzee and Battleship games were also interfering with the card making, but what else can you do in the middle of West Texas with no television (not a big deal for me but it is for most people), no wifi access, and no cell phone signal? Besides, games are a great Christmas or camping tradition!!

Crappy pictures but I hope whoever gets a Christmas card from us this year will think they look better in real life....otherwise it's time to hang up my scrapbooking hat -- ha ha!! P.S. The card front in the upper right was the prototype -- it had velvet ribbon on it and I used Sizzix letters. I think the improvements were good ones from the prototype!

And, just for fun, I've included a photo of hubby with the well-dressed Fort Stockton, TX, roadrunner!!!

Merry Christmas and a blessed 2010!