A Few More! (Catch-Up Part 5!)

I still have several cards or rather, days of cards, to post before getting through the second to last batch of samples and swaps that I never got posted. Thanks for hanging in there! I will try to keep it short!

This first one was made by Vicki Towell.  It was a fast and easy one, made so, by the stocking punch and glitter paper.  I also like her detail of the scored "square" to offset the stockings.

 

This polar bear card was made by me.....but I'm not sure I should admit it!  :)  Mostly because I was having some trouble getting the gel pen to work on the glossy cardstock.  At least consistently work well.  But also because it didn't photograph well.  Those spots that look....uh.....spotty..... are actually snowflakes, stamped in Versamark and Iridescent Ice EP.  However, my powder had some kind of flecks in it, from when we do not know.  Sometimes it looks, er, not so great, and other times it doesn't seem to bother the design.  So I intend to use it up, regardless.  But I really should get a new bottle, don't you think?  ;)  I actually "CASEd" this card from somewhere, but since it was so long ago, I can't even remember if Vicki brought the photo or if I had found it, so I certainly can't tell you where it originated.  ::Sorry!::  At this point, the artist would probably not really want to be associated with my crummy-gel-pen-and-speckly-EP card anyway!  ;)

Last but not least (by any means!) is this one made by Vicki!  If I remember correctly, she "won" this stamp set for FREE from Jerilyn's team meeting so had to give herself a challenge to use it right away.  Very nice, very easy, and best of all, very fast!

I am still trying to get my Christmas stuff packed away.  I am thoroughly, and I mean thoroughly going through all my ornaments right now.  Actually I am done, with the exception of a few stragglers that I have to peg the owner of.  I always labeled the "gifted" ornos each year before putting them away, but over time, some have come off, unfortunately.  And, truth be told, I am just sick of looking at some of them! 

Plus, I think they multiply when the box is shut and the lights are off.  It is cold up there in storage you know.  I can't prove it, but it sure seems like it!   ;)

But it's definitely getting warmer around here already.  Besides not having really, one extended, "When will this weather end?" stretch of cold this year, yesterday brought me into contact with not one, but two, boxelder bugs.  ::Oh yay.  Can't wait for them to start again.::