Let's Make A Christmas Card

It is almost mid November.... time to get thinking about making some Christmas Cards. I typically mail out around seventy five cards each year. My Mom always had her cards written out, addressed, stamped, and  ready to be mailed the day after Thanksgiving. I have desired to do this my whole adult life, but I think I only pulled it off once in my forty-five years of marriage, but I keep dreaming and trying. Never giving up. 

I knew the first minute I first saw this stamp set that I wanted to make it appear that the Angel was placing a beautiful star on top of a Christmas Tree. My card went together quickly....until I got to coloring the Angel. I think I colored the Angel four to five times in several different shades, but nothing clicked. When my daughter came over I asked her opinion on it and she suggested a gold gown. Initially I thought the gold was too much with the two gold glittery stars and a piece of gold foil used on the strip of designer papers, but in the end I went with it. I stamped the image on card stock and then paper pieced the Angel over a white base layer using the coordinating die. 

I am a Close To My Heart Maker. If I can be of service to you, please don't hesitate to contact me. Here is a link to my website. cherylarbo.closetomyheart.com

Happy Scrappin and card making!

Cheryl

Deck The Palms

I am REALLY excited over this Christmas collection "Deck The Palms". We normally annually celebrate our wedding anniversary over Thanksgiving at Orange Beach in Alabama, but my husband was not able to get off work in November, so we are going for a few days after Christmas instead. Winter in Alabama is January and February, so I am sure it will be pretty chilly, but hoping to still roll up our pants and have a walk or two along the beach. Plus the restaurants, condos, and the beach go all out decorating for Christmas. We are not sun worshippers. We actually enjoy going for the fresh seafood. We have our delicious stand-by restaurants that we love going to, but with each visit we will try one or two new venues. This past July we were stuck in the tourist traffic.... it was awful, so we stopped and went into a Mexican restaurant that was in the parking lot. It was totally wonderful and amazing and reminded us both of our favorite restaurant that was located in Hueytown many years ago when we lived in Birmingham. We normally only eat seafood while at the beach, but we actually went twice here that week. It was delicious! Sorry for the lane swerve! 

This collection special is available from November 1st to December 31 2021. You can purchase individual beach and/or beach Christmas themed pieces within the collection. There is also an option to buy the full kit that includes both themes and all of the pieces offered in the collection. The colors are bright and beautiful. I am really enjoying our two recent paper collections using our new "color of the year" Wild Berry. I am not a pink gal, but I totally LOVE this color and even after it retires this fall, it is a keeper. This collection will be perfect for our vacation. I cannot wait to create using it. I placed my order yesterday and will be stalking my mailman for it's delivery. Listed below are TWO newly released YouTube videos showcasing this new Christmas collection and my pictures of the collection.

I am a Close To My Heart Maker. If I can be of service to you, please don't hesitate to reach out to me. My website is cherylarbo.closetomyheart.com

Happy scrappin and card making!

Cheryl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6KHgcGzqwo

https://www.facebook.com/CloseToMyHeartOfficial/videos/892559458299017/