Snow Globe of Joyful Carolers

Figured I better get in the couple of Christmas related cards I have made prior to Christmas actually being here.  Did it come faster for anyone else like it did for me?  I feel like I am just barely getting everything done in time this year...like I am walking a fine line of not making it.  Ugh!  Next year I will plan further ahead...yup I said it...think I say it every year...maybe this time I mean it!


The snow globe idea for this card came from the SCS Technique Lover's Challenge #356 (to make a snow globe) and the adorable Snowman Carolers from Hambo Stamps just seemed to be a perfect fit!  I did actually use a window sheet to make the globe part look a little more like glass...not sure it really added too much to the card or not.  You can see it in the other shot of the card.

Not much else to say...thinking about all of the other stuff I need to do tonight and tomorrow.  One more Christmas card to go, so until then, thanks for checking out my kind of engineering!


The Engineering Details
Stamps - Snowman Carolers, Joy Filled Sentiment (Hambo Stamps); Paper - Certainly Celery, Pacific Point, Rose Red, Whisper White (SU!), window sheet; Ink - Certainly Celery, Pacific Point, Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie (SU!), Brilliance Graphite Black (Tsukineko); Accessories - Circle Nestabilities, Fancy Tags Trio (Spellbinders), Corner Rounder (SU!), Cuttlebug Snowflakes embossing folder (Provo), dimensionals

Baby Shower Blog Hop for Lisa

The PMS Design team is celebrating a very fun event today! We get to celebrate the upcoming birth of one of our own's baby. Lisa McKinney is due any day now (she is hoping it will be sooner than later) and we wanted to surprise her with a Baby Shower Blog Hop! You should be getting to me via the lovely Anita. If you didn't, go get started at the beginning of the hop with the PMS Blog, so you don't miss a bit of the adorable baby creations!

I decided to give a new technique a try with my card. The Technique Lover's Challenge #283 this week on SCS was to make a T-Slide Card. Of course, true to my form, I didn't want to make my card the exact size that was in the tutorial. So it took me awhile to get everything cut correctly and get it to work...but now that I have done it once, it wouldn't be bad to do a second time....I understand how it works! See you pull the little tab and the main image flips open to reveal a greeting on the inside. My numerous pictures hopefully show what I mean.

Lisa is expecting a boy...and hopefully the ultrasound is right, otherwise I will need to make a new card! So I pulled out the very old Western Sky pattern paper from SU! and colored the adorable Jamie Fairy with ink pads and aquabrush. I actually didn't have the River Rock color that was used in the pattern paper, so I fudged it by combining Creamy Caramel and a little Old Olive...pretty darn close huh?! Finished off the card with some simple white gel pen stitching.

So now you need to hop...oh wait...I am the end! We hope you had fun celebrating with us. Please leave some love for Lisa on her Blog...and some fast delivery wishes! Thanks for checking out my kind of engineering!

The Engineering Details

Stamps - Jamie Fairy (Paper Makeup Stamps), Practically Perfect (Verve Stamps); Paper - River Rock, Blue Bayou, Ruby Red, Western Sky Pattern Paper (SU!), watercolor paper; Ink - Black Stazon, Blue Bayou, Ruby Red, Creamy Caramel, Old Olive; Accessories - Aqua Brush, White gel pen, Round Tab Punch (SU!), Tag Corner Punch (SU!), dimensionals