Merry Christmas!

Merry Happy Merry Christmas!

Hope you are all cozy and tucked away with your loved ones on this Christmas day! We are with spending time with family and are enjoying a White Christmas as the snow still falls and the piles up outside! Perfect for hot cocoa and sugar cookies ;) and to build snowmen later!

Here is a Christmas card with one of my fave sets: Holiday Wonder from Taylored Expressions - I was inspired by all the snow we were having and decided for a white on white kind of card with some glitter (can't go wrong with glitter :) Can you see all the snow falling outside?

Here is a closer peek at the snowflakes both big and small and the litter one the curtains....

I love this stamp of Santa and the reindeers (and btw - our kids were totally excited when they saw that the plate of cookies that they left out for Santa last night was empty - and just had crumbs on it.... and then they saw all the stockings hung on the chimney with care and were amazed that Santa brought them what they really wanted: Legos and a Cinderella cup :)

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Choice Buttercream cardstock from Taylored Expressions

Ink: Ladybug and Tuxedo black Memento

Stamps: Holiday Wonder from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: snowflake punch from Martha, pearls from Kaiser, stickles, ribbon from stash, corner rounder/chomper and copics.

I hope that you are all enjoying time with family and loved ones! Wishing you all joy and love!!

Thanks so much for visiting!!!

Big hugs to all!!!

Merry Christmas!

Sankari :)

2 Sketches 4 You - #37 - The Sweetest Season

Good Morning Everyone,

Today brings another awesome sketch from the lovely ladies at 2 Sketches 4 you - which this week is being sponsored by Just Rite Stamps. This is sketch #37 from Kazan and I can't even tell you how much I love this sketch! The first time I saw it - I was like "Wow"! what a cool sketch - and then I was like.... hmmmmm.... what am I going to do??? ack! I actually made a different card with a different circle element - but I didn't end up liking it - so I kept that aside for later. I created this mini snow globe-y card instead. I used the Just Rite Stamps: Old Fashioned Christmas Borders and Centers for the sweet image of the snowmen feeding the birds and the sentiment is from the Something Sweet Borders and Centers. The snowglobe is a clear favor circle/bubble fromTaylored Expressions and I stamped the snowmen, colored them with copics and then cut them out and placed them and adhered them to the inside circle of the favor circle. Then I adhered the papers to the card and cut out a circle for the favor to pop out of . Then I put the top of the circle on and adhered it with some tombow and then covered it with the papers with the circle part that was cut out, easily slipping over the clear globe.

The sentiment was stamped and then cut out with spellbinders and then after card was "done", I pleated the ribbon around the snowglobe (using the sticky tape and some tombow). and then of course - I had to add some liquid pearls :) lol! I am seriously loving these My Mind's Eye papers - they are so fun and bright and merry!!!

I had SO much fun making this card and I loved playing with my Just Rite stamps with Kazan's awesome sketch. I hope you have a chance to join us this week - there are some yummy goodies involved!!! For more details and to check out the amazing creations from the design team, head on over to 2 Sketches 4 You.

Happy Monday Everyone!!

Thanks for stopping by to visit today!

Stay warm and big hugs!!

Sankari :)

Holiday Monday - The Magic of Christmas

Good Morning Everyone,

It's Monday and that means its time for another holiday Monday card from the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog. This week, Maria is our hostess with an awesome sketch challenge. I used the newly released Holiday Wonder Set from Taylored Expressions .

Card Ingredients:

Paper: My Mind's Eye Colorful Christmas

Ink: Memento lilac, cottage ivy, expresso

Stamps: Holiday Wonder from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: crystal stickles, oval punches from Marvy, bling, rest from stash

I am so psyched to add another holiday card to my stash. I am so psyched to be part of the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long group - because its given me a chance to create a card through the year - and now I can't believe that this year is coming to a close... wow! how quickly time flies!! We would love for you to play along with the challenge this week - you can stop by the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog for more details and also check out the wonderful smasy creations!!

Thanks for stopping by my blog this morning! Big Hugs!

Sankari :)

Happy Holiday Monday :)

Good Monday Morning Everyone!

Its Monday and that means its holiday time! I am so happy to be part of the Christmas Stampin All Year Long blog, where every week we create a card on Monday - each Monday there is a different challenge for your card (so you can always keep it fresh - I don't know about you but it is SO hard for me to make 50 xmas cards that are all the same). This week, Debbie from The Paper Garden challenged us to use this awesome sketch where the bottom portion of the sketch is patterned DP and the top portion is embossed. 

I was cleaning up a few days ago for our guests this weekend and found (or re-found, I should say :)  this Martha paper from last year hidden at the bottom of this pile that was behind another pile :) and was psyched to be able to use it - I LOVE this gum drop paper and thought it would go perfectly with this sweet gingerbread house from Taylored Expressions. 

The top really is embossed (in dotted snowflakes)

 but you can't see it come through because of the light on the picture).

I had so much fun making this card! Its officially August folks - so if you would like to get crafting on some holiday cards - check out the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog and play along - and check out the wonderful holiday merriment that was created by all the wonderful women on the DT for this week's sketch!

Please come back later this morning where I am SO psyched to be able to show you something "berry" special (wink!) 

Hope you had a fantastic weekend!

Thanks for visiting!

hugs!

Sankari :)

Card Details:

Paper: Martha Stewart

Stamps: Gingerbread house is from the Home Sweet Home stamp set from Taylored Expressions

Ink: Stazon Black

Accessories: liquid pearls (5 different colors), spellbinders dies, frosted lace stickles, candy cane stickles, crystal stickles, brad for the door knob, ribbon from stash

Create a Holiday Card with Numbers!

Good Monday Morning Everyone,

Happy June 1st!!!! Can you believe its JUNE!!!! We are half way through 2009 and I am psyched to have almost 20 holiday cards - thanks to Maria's inspiration to start a blog where we do different challenges every week to make holiday cards all year long: known as the Christmas Stampin All Year Long Blog!

Today is Monday and that means its time for another card from the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog - where today - I am your hostess!!! I thought for Challenge #19! to mix it up a little and have some fun with numbers :)!!! So the challenge is to create a card where you use numbers (either in the embellishment, stamps, paper, etc) as the main focus of the creation :) As soon as I thought of that and sent it to Maria - our awesome blog coordinator /creator/genius :) I suddenly panicked and thought... Uh-Oh, I don't think I want to play along in my own challenge :) because suddenly it felt a little hard to figure out what to do with numbers - 

 but I tried by playing around on my computer and came up with this card that is for Season's Greetings All Year Long (24-7-365 meaning: 24 hours of the day, 7 days a week, 365 days in a year). I downloaded a calendar for December from this site and flourished it up with a little blue flourish and added a little pinkish red dot on the 25th of December for accent. The Tree is a craft stamp and paper pieced and is a Tara Reed Design from Janlynn. Oh and by the way - I just found out that Janlynn is having a HUGE blowout sale - I mean huge!!! Check it out!!

This tree is part of a 7 tree cluster craft stamp called Joyful Trees but I just used one for this card and embellished it with some pink rhinestones. I had to use some liquid pearl (I tried my best not to... but I couldn't resist!!! lol!) and created a little half circle element with the liquid pearls and some glitter :)

Card Details:

Paper: Scenic Route (Sonoma) and 

Ink: Martha Steward Brown

Stamps: Joyful Trees (by the artist Tara Reed from JanLynn)

Accessories: RicRac ribbon from stash, silver marker, Kaiser Rhinestones, Martha Green Agate glittler, liquid pearls, dimensionals

Show Watched: Pride & Prejudice for the 400th time :)

I hope you play along! It's really been helping each week to add a card to my holiday card pile :) yay! I am psyched to be able to actually have cards to give out during the holidays :) yay :) unlike last year where it was just a last minute holiday shopping, wrapping, crafting frenzy ... ugh!

Check out all the fun numbered creations from the lovely ladies over at the Christmas Stampin All Year Long blog!!!

Hope your Monday is off to a great start!!!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog!!!

Ciao for now :)

Sankari 

Happy Holidays

Happy Monday Everyone!

This week over at the Christmas Stampin All Year Long blog we had a sketch challenge from Maria for week 18 of our weekly holiday card challenge! I am still on vacation right now - but didn't want to miss out from being part of this awesome blog - so I literally scrapped together some paper - got a cute little christmas tree at the nearby craft store and borrowed my MIL's scrap tools to create this little card - luckily the craft store had some liquid pearls - so I felt set! Its hard to craft in a space that's not yours - but I had fun doing this card - sorry for the poor lighting - I took this picture sunday night and will have to take another picture when I get home :)

Don't forget to check out all the other wonderful creations over at the Christmas Stampin All Year Long blog - we would love for you to play along!

Happy Memorial Day to all! Hope you are all having or had a wonderful weekend!!
Will write more soon after getting home :)
Thanks so much for visiting my little corner :)
Sunshine smiles and Hugs,
Sankari :)