Season's Greetings

First of all...

Steph, if hub's is near by don't let him see this post!!!

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I'll start with this card I made this morning.....

 It's an easel card...

I played with a bunch of stickles, in a clear, green & gold for the ornament.

I used some antique linen distress ink on everything...

 the paper, doily, lace, tag and fingers! 

A close up of the inside...

I used the platinum perfect pearls to mount the velum on top of the patterned paper.

I punched a small hole with my crop-a-dile and put the perfect pearls on the hole making sure it seeped down underneath. 

I love this card and want to keep it for myself.....

but I won't!

I'll be entering this in the Bella Creations Cartes Classiques November challenge,

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This is the sketch pad that I made for my son-in-law.

He loves to draw and if I remember correctly he has a small book that he carries with him. 

This one is bigger so he can keep it home and use it for larger sketches.

I used a piece of canvas for the cover that I painted with several different colors of acrylic paints, then I used my new Stampabilities-Faded Text Background stamp and my jalopy stamp from the 

Tim Holtz collection.

My Prima Mask and some 

Cashmere Texture Magic

 for the bricks in the corner.

I used a clear decoupage to add the skeleton leaves and title, then over everything to seal it.

Hope he likes it. 

Have a hard time looking for things to buy for him, never thought I'd come up with something to make for him!

I will be sharing both of these projects over at the Make it Monday blog.

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Thanks for stopping by!