Wednesday, December 31, 2014

My 10 Favorite Cards From 2014

Can you believe that it is already the last day of the year? I know I can't! It seems that December and blogging don't work for me–only one blog post in December so I thought I better get another one in before 2015!

Anyway, I decided to round up my ten favorite cards to share with you. Click on each photo to be taken to the original article.

Enjoy and Happy New Year! See you in 2015.


Linda Vich Creates: My 10 Favorite Cards From 2014


Linda Vich Creates: My 10 Favorite Cards From 2014


Linda Vich Creates: My 10 Favorite Cards From 2014


Linda Vich Creates: My 10 Favorite Cards From 2014


Linda Vich Creates: My 10 Favorite Cards From 2014



Linda Vich Creates: My 10 Favorite Cards From 2014


Linda Vich Creates: My 10 Favorite Cards From 2014


Linda Vich Creates: My 10 Favorite Cards From 2014


Linda Vich Creates: My 10 Favorite Cards From 2014


Linda Vich Creates: My 10 Favorite Cards From 2014

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Time To Catch Up

Wow! It's long time since I've been here! So busy this time of year with work, shopping, and prepping items for my Stamping Group which met last Friday for our last time before Christmas. I couldn't show you any of these items beforehand because it would have ruined the surprise but now I can!

I made some Tea Light Holders for each of my ladies, using both the Silver and Gold Fancy Foil Designer Vellum and the Curvy Keepsakes die. I made a different type of tea light holder in Candle, Candle, Burning Bright.

Linda Vich Creates: Time To Catch Up

Linda Vich Creates: Time To Catch Up

I also prepared Christmas cards for each of my ladies using the Festival of Trees stamps and punch bundle. That set is getting quite a work out this season! You can view another card using the bundle in Trimming The Trees.

Linda Vich Creates: Time To Catch Up

Linda Vich Creates: Time To Catch Up

Next are the two cards which we made at our stamping group on Friday night.

This first card was cased in entirety from Justin Krieger's wonderful creation. Justin's card was lovely and I just didn't want to change anything–colors, design, etc.

One thing I did do, though, was to use the digital version of the Designer Paper he chose from the Motley Monsters pack. When I read his list of materials, I was quite surprised that the Bermuda Bay star paper came from that package. Because I knew I would not use the other papers, I opted to purchase the digital version and printed it off on Whisper White card stock, a much cheaper alternative at $5.50 instead of $13.50.

Card Designed by Justin Krieger http://jkcardsonline.com/2014/11/paper-craft-crew-117/

The second card was cased from Stampin' Up! demonstrator Jan McQueen. I loved her card and as I had never made a shaker card before, I decided that this would be the one to try! Instead of using the muted colors of the All Is Calm paper pack, I opted for traditional Christmas colors of red and green. I had to add a few non Stampin' Up! sequins into the shaker because there were none available in the two greens or the red that I chose. The other sequins came from the Frosted Sequins pack. (My shaker card below does not have any red sequins because I didn't have any at the time I made my sample card.)

Linda Vich Creates: Time To Catch Up

My ladies definitely had fun working on these two cards:

Linda Vich Creates: Time To Catch Up

Linda Vich Creates: Time To Catch Up

After completing their cards, it was time for our annual Christmas Tag Exchange! Each lady designed one tag and reproduced it for each member of the group. We lay out all our tags so they can be viewed and then we take turns describing how our tags were made and what materials (doesn't have to be from Stampin' Up!) we used to create it. This is my favorite part of our Christmas meeting!

Linda Vich Creates: Time To Catch Up

Here are some closeups of the tags. Mine are the shaker cards after the snowflakes.

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Linda Vich Creates: Time To Catch UpLinda Vich Creates: Time To Catch Up

Linda Vich Creates: Time To Catch UpLinda Vich Creates: Time To Catch Up

Of course, the evening would not be complete without some Christmas goodies:

Linda Vich Creates: Time To Catch Up

And a group shot:

Linda Vich Creates: Time To Catch Up

A fun evening was had by all!


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