Christmas Wine Bottle Tag Trio

Good morning friends!

Yesterday was a very exciting day, with the birth of our 4th Grandchild.  Baby Cohen joined us at 9:23 am and we are all just over the moon to welcome him into the family. Mother and Baby are doing well.  Our Son-In-Law, who just earned his PHD, sent me texts so I'd be 'in the loop.

The first one yesterday morning was "Born".

The second text was "Boy".

Men!!!!

I'm thinking he must have been speechless for the first time in his life.  Ha!

We came out to our cabin last night, just to get out of the house and get a break from all the renovation chaos. This company ... what a bunch of  ... well ... let's just say it's amazing that they are still in business.  OMG.  I checked the main bathroom Friday after the contractors left - it's upstairs and stairs are really hard for me to do.  I would have done it more often Friday if I'd known the number of screw ups.  The biggest one, is that they removed two bathroom drawers and attached - ATTACHED - false fronts. Really? They had to remove the tracks, there were openings cut into the cabinet - how could they not know these were supposed to be drawers? Never mind that their order sheet shows TWO DRAWERS.  That fix is going to take an entire day.

So next week - because they are so S*L*O*W they will have to come back next week - I will explain to them that they obviously need to be babysat, and I will have to go up and check on them every 1/2 hour or so. More fun times!

We ended up packing even more of the few kitchen dishes we'd left out, as it will be a week before I can have a functioning kitchen and then we will be days away from the move. Looks like we will be enjoying Take-Out or going to restaurants until after the move. We will pack up the rest of the kitchen when we get home tonight.

I'm so glad that we have a new baby in the family to bring the joy back into our life as these past 10 days with the contractors have not been fun.

Today's share is a project I love to make ... Wine Bottle Tags (Hangers).  I make sets of them for gifts, hang them on our bottles of wine to decorate the table during the holidays, and put them around gifts of wine, cider or gourmet olive oil.

These three were made before the holidays last year, but I didn't get the pictures shared. Thankfully I have a bunch of those pictures that will carry me through until I have a studio again and can make some new things!

Supplies:
Gold pearl card stock - Star Dream
Red pearl card stock - Star Dream
Embossing folders - Sizzix
Label Dies - MFT
3-d stickers - K & Co
Wine Bottle Hanger die - PTI
Bakers Twine

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C4C 253 Back to School

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Between my Mother-in-Law and our VERY pregnant daughter, yesterday we managed to get half of our store room packed up and ready for the movers. More progress!

Saturday means a new challenge at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog, and this week our hostess Danielle's challenge is 'Back To School'.

Oh My Goodness, this challenge gave me fits.  I have the cutest school themed stamp set - retired, by Stampin' Up - and I just knew it would be perfect for the challenge. I could not find it. That always makes me crazy - my Stampin' Up sets are normally kept together, and I just couldn't spend any more time looking for this one. As it is, squeezing time out of packing for our upcoming move just to make a card is hard enough!

It's also hard to 'change gears' when you have something in mind, never mind the fact that I was getting panicky because my free time was almost up and I had done nothing but tear apart stamp drawers.

Finally I decided to use Poppy the Owl with a ruler and an apple stamp. Well it turns out - after going through my entire food stamp drawer TWICE - that the apple I wanted to use was in the missing school stamp set.  I found the ruler stamp, but it was too big and grungy for the feel of the card. AACK.

Then I spied my (old) binder full of (old) stickers.  Ah - HAH -- felt apple stickers.

So this is my card and it's as 'school themed' as I get this week. But hey - apples count, right?

I have so much fun with Karen Burniston's Character dies ... I cut Poppy the Owl out of blue patterned paper, and tucked one of the felt apple stickers under her wing.  A couple of the apples were adhered to white card stock and fussy cut leaving a narrow border.

The Cloud Frame Edges were in the Summer 2014 die release - how cute are they?  I want to cut them out of purple and blue to make a Halloween card. To speed up the process of attaching them, I adhered white card stock to double sided adhesive then die cut the edges.

I stamped the lines on the oval (after masking the outer edges with Post-It notes), then added the hand lettering.  Those spectacles are on the Props 1 die and I thought they were a fun touch. Initially I was going to pt them on Poppy the Owl, but liked them better on the apple.

After I finished my card, I packed up a couple of boxes in my studio for the move. It's hard to decide what stamps and supplies I can live without for the next month, because of course I'm sure I need EVERYTHING.  However, I did choose some stamp sets to put in a box and in the baseball set there was a perfect ruler stamp.

We also found a packet of CUTE little pencils when my friend was helping me pack up the studio and a couple of those would have been fun to use too.

No, I didn't scream.

I might have said a bad word or two though.  Sheesh.

Make sure to check out what the rest of the Crazies have come up with for the theme this week.

Supplies:
Oval Accordion, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Poppy the Owl, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Props 1, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Cloud Frame Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Patterned paper - Doodlebug Design
White card stock
Double Sided Adhesive
Lines stamp - The Stamps of Life
Felt apple stickers - Sandy Lion
Copic markers

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Christmas Flip-It Duo

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It's Flip-It Friday here on my blog, and I have two Christmas cards to share today. I used patterned paper and stickers from my stash, and the Circle 2 Flip-It Framelit set. The paper has lots of sparkle on it, which I love for holiday cards.

The sticker on this second card is actually a little shaker with chunky glitter inside. You've gotta love K & Co stickers.

These went right into my Christmas Card stash!!

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102nd Birthday Pop Up Card

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So it turns out that my Mother-In-Law is a packing WHIZ. She has been working like crazy here. We decided since the kitchen cabinets were empty anyhow, we might as well pack everything up. Well, we left out a couple of plates and bowls, one pot and one pan. :-)  Tuesday was a really productive day, and after a morning of babysitting we tackled more of the upstairs yesterday. The loft, the sunroom, most of the spare room and spare bathroom are pretty much packed!! Progress, progress, progress.

Today's share is a card I donated to Seniors Secret Service, to celebrate Doris' 102nd birthday. I really enjoy making cards for Seniors for these milestone birthdays.

I used the new Lorna Label Pop Up, a Pop it Ups die by Karen Burniston  for Elizabeth Craft Designs. I know I show a lot of cards using that die, but it is so a useful!

Card size: 4-1/2 x 6"
Supplies:
Lorna Label Pop Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Fishtail Banner and Stitched Edge Panel die - MFT
Alpha Dies - Lawn Fawn
Number Dies - PTI
Birthday Die - Pti
Stamps Outside - Stephanie Barnard
Stamps Inside - Papertrey Ink
Patterned Paper - Stampin' Up
Tombow Marker

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Christmas Ring Accordion Card

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I have a Christmas card to share today, made using the Ring Accordion die set. This is such a fun Accordion - so many different looks from one die set!

This card base was made from a subtly patterned red heavy paper, and the scalloped frame & circles were cut from patterned paper.

The little ornament topper comes in the set - it's just SO perfect! I outlined it with a fine point silver marker.  The smaller circles have glitter glue around the outer edge, and a clear plastic snowflake as a decoration. The snowflake was die cut from a piece of transparency and attached in the centre with a Glitter Dot.

Here you can see the card open ...

I cut the Merry Christmas from White Velvet, and since it's self adhesive the words are easy to adhere!

Finally, here is the view from the top and the back ... I will write a message on the back side when we go to send the card.  One of the red stitched circles isn't permanently attached, so I can remove it to write on it then reattach it with permanent adhesive.

Supplies:
904 Ring Accordion, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
745 - Merry Christmas, Elizabeth Craft Designs
405 White Velvet Sheet, Elizabeth Craft Designs
7018 Glitter Dot, Elizabeth Craft Designs
Red card stock - s.e.i.
Patterned card stock - s.e.i.
Glitter Glue - Stickles
Silver marker
Red heavy Bakers Twine
Transparency Scrap

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Sparkly Polka Dot Birthday Cards

Good morning friends!

They started on our kitchen cabinets yesterday, and we had not one but TWO sets of out-of-town guests. My Mother -In-Law arrived in the morning, as unimpressed at all the S*N*O*W as we are. Brrrrrr. That was our first nasty surprise yesterday.

We got some packing done, while keeping out of the contractor's way ... then we found out that 'yes, we DID have to empty all the cabinets'.  Now if the salesperson had told us that we would have been prepared but to find out on one of our busiest days? NOT AMUSED at this second surprise.

We were out until late last night, meeting the 2nd set of guests ... so it took until midnight to move everything. It wouldn't normally take that long, but I have boxes everywhere and I need the dining-room table to wrap fragile items in paper. The obvious choice was that table, so we had to get creative.

My third surprise, was that it is going to take the better part of the week. GACK.  I thought it was going to take two, maybe three days. Max.  Their flyers state they can do it in one day, with minimal disruption to your kitchen. HA!

So today I have no microwave, no dishes in my kitchen and as soon as they get here I won't even be able to get INTO my kitchen.  Sigh.  I'll be doing food-runs in the snow.  Good Times.

Today's share are Birthday Cards I made for Seniors Secret Service.  I used this cheerful polka dot paper with some sparkle, and an embossing folder for the fishtail piece.

I had three 12x12" sheets, and got three 4x6 cards from each sheet. Yes - I was able to donate NINE of these cards!!

The patterned paper was a little flimsy, so I lined the inside with a smaller folded white card and stamped the greeting on that.

Supplies:
Patterned paper - MME
Green card stock - Stampin' Up
Flag die - MFT
Happy Birthday embossing folder - Cuttlebug
Happy Birthday stamp - Fiskars
Words inside - unknown

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'Hello There Hoppy'

Good morning friends!

I am happy to report that I have one room - one complete room - done and ready for the movers. It's a room we can add packed boxes too as we finish them, and keep them out of our way - I'm SO excited. It may not sound like much, but with all the renovations and all the moving of furniture and boxes that has been going on -- finally getting one complete room FINISHED gives me hope.

There are two more that are close to being done - the spare bedroom and spare bathroom. However, we will have a house guest for the next 10 days so those two rooms need to be functional. I should have them completely ready in a couple of hours after our guest leaves, so I'm not too worried about them.

It's Masculine Card Monday here on my blog, and I have a quick and easy card to share today. The critter is printed right on the patterned paper, so I cut that to be my card front.

Inside, I cut the Lucy Label Pop Up but chose not to use the optional bump out. I cut a Hoppy the Frog to add to the bump, and stamped the greeting above him.  The grass, clouds and little bird were also printed on the paper so that helped make this a quick and easy card.

I have so much fun cutting the Character dies out of patterned paper, in fact it's my favourite way to make them!

Tomorrow I hope to have another room ready - or at least close to being packed. Our daughter is coming to help, even though she is 38 weeks pregnant. :-)

Supplies:
Card size: 4-1/2 x 6"
Lucy Label Pop Up, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Hoppy the Frog Character Die, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Hello there stamp - Stampin' Up
Patterned paper - DCWV
Blue card stock scrap

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