Christmas Cards

Well it's almost that time!! Can you believe we are THAT close to Christmas already? Have you all made and mailed your cards?

Ok, brace yourselves.....are you braced?  I can't believe it myself but I made my Christmas cards this year!! Every single year for at least the past three or four I've promised to make my Christmas cards and without fail each of those years...yep you guessed it, it didn't happen. I am so happy I actually did it and I do really like them to boot!

Wait though there's more! Don't pass out....I really got on a roll and made matching gift tags! I can't wait to add them to gifts. I only made ten so I think I'm going to attach them to the gifts we give out to the family instead of putting them on any of our gifts for the kids. I'll make more next year (oh see there I go promising to make more next year without fail, lol....).

Take a peek below, tell me what you think for my first official making and mailing of my own Christmas cards.

This is the full set. There are five of each card and tag in a set. The envelopes are all stamped with snowflakes and embossed in silver (it is really pretty in person).

Here's all the little Santa's line up. The Santa is a stamped image that was colored in using watercolor pencils, embossed with black powder and white for the beard. The borders are all hand doodles and the glittery trees were cut from a piece of glittery patterned paper. The glittery card itself was premade and purchased from Michaels...could you imagine trying to glitter an entire card yourself ?...you'd be a sparkling mess for sure, not to mention you'd find sparkles in places you shouldn't for days!

Here's the little Santa tags. I stamped, embossed and water colored the Santa image and then cut it out. I used a 3-D dot to adhere Santa. I had a bunch of these little bells left over from another project and thought they were the perfect addition to the ribbon used to tie the tag on the gift. The backs are all blank so they can be used to write the name of who the gift is for.

 

Now my favorites! The snowmen...I love snowmen! These were created basically the same way as the Santa cards. Each snowman is stamped, embossed and watercolored in. Hand doodle borders and the trees all cut from glittery patterned paper.

And the tags to match, also created the same as the Santa tags. Really the only thing I changed besides the image was the colors, but overall they were the same tags and cards to make. 3-D dots work so well for a little dimension.

 

I also stamped the insides of each card with either "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays" and finished them with a "handmade with love" stamp on the back of each!

That's it!

I actaully can't wait to do next years now...maybe I should do it while I'm in the Christmas spirit soon....now there's a thought!

I hope everyone enjoys their holiday and I'll have another post in the New Year. I can't post it yet because it's a gift for Christmas and I know that certain someone visits me here sometimes!

Lumpy Page Designs,

Nicole

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRADY!!!!

love,
Mommy

Monster Party!

Did you expect anything less on my lack of timeliness with this post?....Things never go as planned, but I promise I had good intentions :)

So I finally have gotten around to taking some pictures of the party invitatons I made! I really am loving my watercolor pencils and crayons they add a soft touch of color to the stamped images and it's fun to watch them change with water.

The monster stamps (aren't they too cute?) came from Michael's recollection series. They made me smile right away and that's always a good reason to buy something, right?...ok, maybe that thinking isn't quite right but it worked to justify this purchase...plus they were on sale!

And check it out I found my doodle too! Anything you see on the cards other than the monsters is all freehand work.

The inside was also hand done, mainly because I didn't have a stamp with the information that goes inside a party invitation...I have since scored a stamp for party invites! Where? At Michaels AND it was part of the Recollection series, just like the monster stamps.

Here's a picture of each of the four different monsters. The set consists of 12 invitations all together, but I'm adding 2 more to each monster to make a set of 20.

That's all of em'. Each card also has it's own envelope with stamped and embossed monster eyes on the back.

Thanks for stopping! Hope you're enjoying your weekend.

Oh and I'm going to throw a plug in here for my other blog Firebug Beads since I also have a new post on there. (I've been busy!).

Nicole

Happy November

Wow I can't believe it's November.....the second week of November already! Man, time sure does fly when you get older doesn't it? I remember when I was little how it seemed like it took Christmas forever to get here and now it comes WAY too quickly, each year getting here faster and faster.

Anyway onto today's post. I haven't posted anything scrappy in ages, but that doesn't mean I haven't been working on scrappy things! I have a whole new style going with my card making and I am happy to say I think I've finally found my style with card making and stamping. I spent the entire weekend working away on a set of party invitations and plan to get some pictures of the finished set tonight to share with you all here. I would have done it last night but I finished up so late my eyes couldn't take one more minute of anything....so sleepy! So hang tight I'm going to try to get some pictures posted tonight of the card set.

It's Official

It's official, Firebug Beads is up and going! I'm very excited about this new endevour and I hope you will join me. Stop on by and check out my embarassing first beads and a much improved set in my first post!

A Confession

So....it's been awhile since I posted huh? Well that's because I have a confession to make....I've found a new passion.  For our annivsersary this year my husband got me a certificate to take private lampworking classes and I fell in love.

Everything else came to a screeching hault, scrapbooking, altered art, stamping, card making, all of it. I became instantly addicted to making glass beads.  You know the funny thing is I can't say I ever bought a glass bead when I made jewelry....I don't think I even realized, outside of the few glass beads you can find at the local craftstore, they existed and could be so gorgeous! So for a few months now I've been playing around on my torch learning the ropes to the art of flameworking.

With that all being said I've obviously gotten VERY sidetracked from scrapbooking so......  Lumpy Page Designs isn't going away.....I'm just on a bit of a hiatus. I will definitley be posting anything I make related to scrapbooking so I hope you stop by once in awhile, I know there are a few followers :) (love ya girls!). If you are interested in seeing what I'm doing now there will be a new blog called Firebug Beads very soon - almost done getting set up!

Thank you to everyone that visits!! I love your visits! Hope you stop by the new place :)

Nicole

New Kit! Snorkle - Cosmo Cricket

I know I always say the kits from morethanscrapbooking.com are fantastic and I'm going to have to say it again - FANTASTIC new kit at MTS!! I had so much fun with this, how can you not? Look at how happy the papers and embellishments are. It makes you smile. The alterable frame was a lot of fun to me and the chipboard stickers made creating great things easy!




























Here's some more pictures from my trip. I did so many things but I think my favorite thing from the trip was getting to feed the little chipmunks right out of my hand. They aren't quite chipmunks..their tails are much longer than any chipmunks I've seen where I live. They were still adorable and very friendly. The ground around me was covered with sunflower seed shells, fruit loops, crackers.






































Here's a picture from the Garden of Gods - a must go see if ever in Colorado. Very beautiful. I believe this rock is called Balance(d) Rock .
















A beautiful sunset

My husband did a 14,000 ft climb while we were there (I wasn't feeling crazy, so I didn't go, lol) and near the top he came across these ladybugs in the middle of the snow!

Colorado

Hi all!! I'm still on vacation but I woke up pretty early today and thought I'd post a few pictures of my trip so far. We've done a ton of things (it has been an action packed vacation) and I have a ton of pictures to go along with everything! Colorado is simply amazing! I've enjoyed every second of this gorgeous state so much that I'd love to move here. The Rocky Mountains are a sight to behold and there is wildlife everywhere to see.

One of the first things I got to do was actually scrap related. The owners Penny and Heather from MoreThanScrapbooking live right here in Colorado and they are not far at all from where my sister lives. They invited me over to their fourth of July picnic and of course I had to go meet them! I had such a fun time with them and I also got to meet a few other people from the MoreThanScrapbooking website. Paul (he's the man behind it all) and Jen, she's on the Design Team. Everyone was just so sweet to us and really made us feel comfortable and welcomed. Thank you so much Heather and Penny for inviting me over (hopefully we'll get to do it again!)Starting from the left: Heather, Me and Penny.














On Sunday we went to visit Estes Park and along the way we stopped at the Stanley Hotel. Remember the movie the Shining?? This is the famous hotel that of the Shining movi were filmed. I didn't see a ghost, BUT I'll tell you that it creeped me out a little when I put new batteries in my camera right before coming here only to have my camera batteries read low as soon as I turned in on to start taking pictures of the hotel (spooky!!). Luckily I did manage to snap a few before my camera died entirely. The hotel is beautiful and big! There is an amazing view from where it is located (but then again I don't think there is such a thing as a bad view anywhere in Colorado). It was overcast this day so my pictures are a bit ominous here but I think it just added to the allure of this place.


























That's all I'm going to share today, otherwise my post will be five pages long! I can't wait to start posting the pictures of all the wildlife we've seen. Yesterday I got to go feed some chipmunks (whooptie-do right?) except they eat right out of your HAND! I'll try to post more before I leave on Saturday but if not I will be posting when I get home. Thanks for stopping!!

Thank you card and things

From the BG card kit comes another little card! This card kit is great, I really like the results of each card so far. This one is pretty simple but with such gorgeous papers who needs more?














Ok, on to something fun! The other day I was given the award "Your Blog Makes Me Smile" and now I want to pass it around to eight great girls and their blogs that make me smile everytime I visit - truly inspiring work from each and everyone of them! Grab your award and wear it proudly. Thank you for the inspiring work you do.












LG - My Scrapbook World

Mel - Melz Scrappy Junk

Angie - My Scraptastic World

Heather - Rhymes with Magic

Linda - Card Challenges and More

Ginger - Paw Prints and Paper Crafts

Julia - Belle Paper

Darlene - Darlene's Scrapbooking

Thanks for visiting!
Nicole

It's Friday!!

What a long week!! I'm so glad it's Friday.


I wanted to let everyone know that next week starting on July 3rd I will be on vacation visiting family (super excited). I will be gone until the 11th of July. I am going to take my laptop with me but I'm not sure how much time I'll actually get to post anything. I'm hoping to at least post some pictures while I'm there visiting because we're going to Colorado and I hear it's simply gorgeous!! I've never been there but most of my family now lives there. I kept promising my sister I would come visit her but it never seems to work out and this year I just had to make it happen. I can't wait!! We are going to go white water rafting and we're going to do the Skycoaster at the Royal Gorge (yeah crazy!!!). I keep watching videos of this skycoaster thing and I really should stop because I'm not so sure I won't chicken out once we get there but I do know I'm taking TONS of pictures. I need new pictures to scrap so I'm also very excited that I will have lotd of new pictures to scrap.


On another note check this sweet little award out that my pal Jean Marie so generously gave to me. Thank you Jean! You're too sweet and I'm honored to be on your list, cause I know you're on mine. Now I think the idea is that I too need to pick eight ladies that are deserving of this award (not that everyone isn't deserving, which makes it even harder to choose!).,.....so I'm going to take some time to pick out the eight ladies and I'll post who I picked here so check back - you might be on the list!! If