Christmas card making time!

I normally started making Christmas cards around August. Since the additional family member keeping me busy (I'm not complaining ;) ), i just got the time to make a few.  Hope i can make them in time this year.

I'm playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.  Got the snowman stickers awhile ago.  Couldn't believe there's some good find at dollar store.  Hope you like it. 

Freshly Made Sketches

It's been a busy summer, so it's quite hard to find some time to make some cards.  Today, I'm playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches  challenge.  It must be the fact that I haven't made a card for quite a while.  It took me quite some time to get the right set of pattern papers that go well together.   

Hope you like it. 

Less is More 2 legs challenge & Freshly Made Sketches challenge

Father's day is coming, I guess a lot of the fellow card makers are making father's day card.  This one is for my hubby. 

I'm participating the "Less is More" 2 or 4 legs challenge, and the Freshly Made sketches challenge this week. For the 2 / 4 legs challenge, I was thinking about some kind of animals to put on my card initially.  But then inspired by the guest designer's card, I wanna make my own monster card too.  It might look a bit better if my handwriting is more artistic.  I guess it's time to get some calligraphy books to learn!

EDIT: I've also linked my card to AAA cards challenge.  Thanks for Sarah's suggestion! 

Freshly made sketches -- thank you

Baby L recently starts to sleep less, which also means I have less time for myself including making cards!  I hope he would take longer naps once starting on solids. :) 

There are still a bunch of thank you cards I need to make for my son's school year end.  I'm playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.  Hope you like it. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Preparing for 2015

Made another card today with the Freshly Made Sketch challenge.  Here's my take.  I find it a bit blank.  Perhaps I should add some germs to it.  

Freshly Made Sketches

I'm playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.  I got a set of glitters from last year's Halloween sale.  Surprisingly this red color fits the Christmas theme quite well. 

Haven't tried to mail out cards with glitters cuz I don't know how it will turn out when the recipients got it.  So usually those cards are reserved for the "local people" that I just need to hand over to them.  If you have any experience of mailing out cards with glitters, pls let me know how it turns out or whether it's "safe" to mail.  I'm just using stamps with glue stamp pad.  

Here is the complete look of the card. Hope you like it.   

Freshly made sketches

It's this monster cardstock again!  I figured that instead of remembering which card I give to whom (so that they won't be getting similar paper patterns all the time), I'll make most cards out of the same cardstock at the same time. Of course to give it out within a couple of months.  

This time, I'm playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge. 

I was trying to make each word with different colors.  Since it's a clear stamp, it doesn't work very well with my colored markers.  So that's my solution.  

This is the original sketch:

Sketch challenge

It's been quite stressful and hectic at work these days.  So I decided to take a break tonight.... i.e. making some card.. of course, I did some chores too! :(

I made this card fairly quickly, because I have the recipient in mind, and then I thought of the "cupcake" paper I have.  Looking for challenges to participate, I found the Freshly Made Sketches.  Excuse the quality of photo -- the room is a little dark and i'm using my phone to take it, so that I can guarantee to make it to the challenge. :P