The weather outside is frightful!

Happy Monday!! My thermometer reads 35 degrees right now. At least the sun is shining! My boys had to wear their.......*shiver*......winter jackets to school today. I'm just not ready for cold weather!!

Well, in the spirit of the colder weather, I made a card using my new Tilda from my wonderfully generous friend Dawn. I LOVE this stamp & am so grateful to her for sending it to me.

I stamped Tilda onto Shimmery White paper, colored her with Prisma pencils & cut her out. The circle is also shimmery white, embossed using the Cuttlebug snowflake folder. The papers are from Provocraft's Holiday pack from last year, along with SU's Real Red. The two corner pieces are Cuttlebug's Vintage Corner dies, & I used my clear Spica glitter pen to give it some shimmer. I also added Stickles Frosted Lace to Tilda's "fur". It was shimmery enough from the paper, however I made a boo-boo & needed to cover it up so she's extra sparkly :)


As usual, I had a hard time getting a good picture of the inside, but I really wanted to show you how I used my new Martha Stewart snowflake border punch, also from Dawn. It cuts AND embosses, although I think I flattened out the embossed snowflakes when I smoothed it out after gluing, lol. See how blurry it is? Now how come my camera worked fine for the front of the card, but my insides are always blurry?? Is it all the white space? I even tried taking a picture of just that bottom part with the punch ~~ blurry!! I welcome any suggestions!!


Finally, here's a picture of my kiddos yesterday before they went Trick or Treating. Doesn't my 10 year old look thrilled? I'm sure he's thinking "I can't BELIEVE I still have to go Trick or Treating with my little brother & my MOM!!". And don't you love Darth Vader's snowflake sweatshirt? I had just a black long sleeve shirt for him to wear under his cape thing, but it was wayyyyy too cold. Ya gotta be flexible in Wisconsin!!


Well I'm off to help out in the school library for a few hours. When I come back I'm hoping to finish my High Hopes challenge card that should have been posted......ahem.....yesterday!! Have a great Monday!!

EDIT: I wanted to let you know I have a few stamps for sale on Ebay. Thinking about it now, I should have offered them up here first, but I'm just so used to just selling on Ebay, so that's where they are. I don't have many, although I hope to get more listed, but there are some fun winter & Christmas ones, if you want to check it out. HERE IS THE LINK.

ANOTHER EDIT: Well I retook my pictures & they came out better. However, I have to use the .3 setting on my camera, instead of the 2 which is what I usually use for blog pictures. Using the 2 is suppose to mean clearer pictures, but I guess in the case of the color red, that rule doesn't apply. Unfortunately, it means you won't get a larger image if you click on the picture, but I'd rather have a clear, non-enlargeable picture than a blurry enlargeable one. LOL ~ did that make sense??