Unto Us A Child Is Born

I just wanted to take this opportunity to say,  from my castle to yours, I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas.  May you be safe, healthy, and with those you love.  To quote Tiny Tim, "God Bless us Everyone!"

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

Do Not Open Until Christmas

Hello my crafty friends!  Are you ready for tomorrow?  I can't believe how they time has flown!  I think I'm ready.  So much running around shopping, wrapping, cleaning for our family party.  I have a niece who is due in February.  She was in the hospital Saturday and thought the baby would be coming.  Thankfully little Bella didn't arrive yet.  She is bound and determined to come early.
                                    
Anyway, on to the card.  This is a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card base.  The stamp is from the Cardz TV Stamps set "Christmas Joy."  The paper came from a Recollections paper pack.  I used Elegant Edges for the mats and ran it through the Cuttlebug.  It was cut out at 3 3/4 inches.  Elmo came from the Elmo and Friends Holiday cartridge.  He was cut at 3 /12 inches.  I used my favorite EK Success corner punch.

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope you are getting everything done that you need to.  Let us not forget the reason for the season.  And please say an extra prayer for the families of the children in Connecticut.  My heart aches for them.

Lots of Hugs,
Laura
(The Queen)

Christmas Popcorn Holders

Hello my crafty friends!  It seems like only a little while ago we were celebrating Thanksgiving.  Now Christmas is rapidly approaching!  Every year my Aunt asks me to make something she can give to her friends she worked with before she retired.  They go to lunch and give each other little gifts.  I had made some of these popcorn holders at Thanksgiving, so she asked me to make some with Christmas paper.  I said sure!  I had to make 14 of them.  I didn't want to embellish them too much because I'm sure they will get thrown away.  I didn't take pictures of all of them but here are some of them.
                        
                   
I used papers from different Studio G paper packs.  The elves and glittered trees came from Michaels.  The sentiments came from  four different Cardz TV Stamps sets.  I'm so glad they come together so quickly!  I have more treats I have to put together.  It's crunch time!!!!

I'm really glad you stopped by today and I hope you are having a good day.  I hope to hear from you!

Lots of Hugs,
Laura
(The Queen)

Cardz TV Challenge #21 "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas!"

Happy Friday my crafty friends!  I'm so glad you stopped by because today starts another Cardz TV Design Team Challenge.  Mary over at Cardz TV gave our Design Team a challenge to create a card, layout,or other craft project for Christmas with snow, snowflakes, or a snowman. 
                         
I used the Cardz TV Stamp set "Snow Day."  This is a fun set to use with snowmen.  I was in Michaels and they had these cute treat boxes.  I just had to have them!  I love to make treat holders but I thought these were cute.  The one with the large snowflake came with the cellophane bags.  For the red one, I used a small ziplock type bag.  Inside the red one are Hershey Almond Kisses, and the blue one's are Cookies and Cream Hershey Kisses.  Yummy!  Super simple and super fast.  That's the way I like it this time of year.  I have orders for some of the treat holders I have recently made that I need to finish, not to mention finish shopping, and wrapping the presents.

Now it's your turn!  All you have to do is create a card, layout, or other craft project with snow, snowflakes, or a snowman.  Once you've finished, head on over to Mary's Blog and enter your project into Mr. Linky.  She will be giving away a set of Cardz TV stamps.  The challenge runs from Friday, December 14th through Noon Thursday, December 20th.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope to hear from you.  Also, please stop by the other Designer's blogs.  They have created some awesome projects.  I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Lots of Hugs,
Laura
(The Queen)

Cookie Treat Holder

Hello my crafty friends!  Here's a quick little treat holder I had made.  The paper is from Bo Bunny.  The paper is two sided with red and white stripes on the inside.  I had to play with the measurements a little bit.   I used a Spellbinder's Nestability ornament to cut the shape.  On the inside, there is a small ziplock type bag with Mother's animal cookies.
                                    
For the sentiment, I used the Cardz TV Stamps set "Tiny Tidings."  This is a fun set because they are smaller to fit inside small punched tags.  I used Stampin' Up! punches.  I added a small piece of Velcro under the top flap for closure.  And I added some ribbon from y scraps.  These are really quick and simple to make.  You could really mass produce these for little gifts for friends.

I hope you are having a good week so far.  I know I have been extremely busy!  My daughter is in a basketball tournament that starts tonight.  It's been run here run there, buy this, wrap that.  Whew!  Thanks so much for stopping by and I would really love to hear from you.

Lots of Hugs,
Laura

O Holy Night

Hello my crafty friends!  I hope your Monday is going well.  I just wanted to share a card I made last week. It is a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card.  I had purchased the December 25th cartridge a few weeks ago and really wanted to cut this image.  I cut it out at 3 1/4 inches for both layers.  The sentiment is from the Cardz TV Stamps set "Classic Christmas."  The mat behind it I cut out from Elegant Edges and cut at 3 1/2 inches for both the mat and the shadow.  For the mat behind those, I used the Kassie's Brocade Cuttlebug folder.  I used some Recollections fine glitter on the star.  The flat back pearls came from Recollections

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I hope you've had a chance to enter into the "To Die For!" Challenge over at Cardz TV.  Have a great day and I would really love to hear from you!

Lots of Hugs,
Laura
(The Queen)

Gingerbread Men Card

Hello my crafty friends!  I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend.  Here around my castle, the wind is really blowing.  I hope you've had a chance to enter the Cardz TV Stamps Challenge "To Die For!"

For today's card, I used the Cardz TV Stamps set "Tiny Tidings."  This is a cute set that Mary has that has sentiments from a set she had last year but they are smaller, and there are a couple of new ones added in.  The card base came from a boxed card set I found at Bennion Crafts (a local store) that comes pre-folded.  The are made by Pebbles.  There are 10 different card bases and envelopes.  They have really cute patterns and have the envelopes included.  For the red mat, I used the EK Success punch Scalloped Scallop.  For the patterned paper I used a Recollections 6 x 6 mat stack that has some adorable papers in it. It is called Sugar Plums.   I used a 1 1/4 inch EK Success square scallop punch.  The other day I was at Joann's and found this cute Fiskars gingerbread punch.  I debated on getting it since I have several cartridges with gingerbread man cuts, but I knew if I didn't get it then it would be gone later.  I used a Peachy Keen stamp set for their faces, and some bling from my stash.

I hope you enter our Challenge!  You have until Noon EST Thursday December 6th.  Mary will be giving away a set of her stamps to the winner!  I will be posting again tomorrow so I hope you stop back to check it out.

Lots of Hugs,
Laura