Cottage Lane Stamper

 Check out this new addition to the Kits Collection!  These are only available online. This kit is stamp free!  No inky fingers.  😊 It also includes sentiments in English, French, German & DUTCH!   This kit has three designs with three cards of each design.  Join me as I put three of the cards together.  My sentiments are in Dutch for my Dutch cousins.  Card one on the left says "Wishing the happiest birthday to you!"   Card two in the middle says: "Thank you for your kindness" and card three on the right says: "I feel blessed to have a wonderful, kind and amazing friend  like you!" You can purchase this is as well as others at my online store:  SHOP HERE Thank you for stopping by.  Make sure to like, comment, share & subscribe! Images: Stampin' Up!© 1990 - Current

Christmas is over but not for me.  I won't be celebrating Christmas with my family until after the 1st of the year.  This year I'm giving my daughter, her husband and their three sons along with my son a pillow covered with one of my dad's flannel shirts that I saved after he passed away.  I have a cousin who is a treasure and great quilt maker.  She did the same thing with her dad's shirts so she offered to turn my dad's flannel shirts into pillows for me.  Many years ago my dad had a heart attach when he was in his 50's and to help him to stop smoking he always had Chiclets in his shirt pocket.  The grand kids would always hop on his lap and help themselves to one.  They no longer make Chiclets in a box with 10 pieces of gum, but I was able to find mini Chicklets in a small package. So each shirt has a package of Chicklets as well as a laminated photo of my parents' last Christmas together.  I didn't know when I took that photo that it would be ...

It's gotten me a little bit to get into the Christmas card making mode and right now I'm in a gnome mood. This set came out last year with the dies and then in the spring mini they came out with a spring set. I bought both sets and the dies go with both sets. They've been retired, which is too bad because they are so cute. I posted a gnome card the other day. This morning I woke up around 3 and couldn't get back to sleep so I thought I would play with the gnome sets again. I also used the retired paper for both cards as backgrounds and this first card I also used the dies to cut out three of the gnomes. I die cut the gnomes, the die cut some rectangles and layered those on card stock that coordinated with the gnomes hats. I used a little Night of Navy ribbon and layered it all on Night of Navy. I embellished them with some little snowflakes. The inside I stamped the Christmas greeting and another little gnome with a lantern. I also used an ink that was retired sev...