Superbowl Shrine

So I haven't made a bunch of cards lately because my crafting station had to get stored to make room for the Christmas tree.  While the Christmas tree has been down since the st, I'm just now getting my area set back up.  Anyway, I am a huge Dolphins fan who married a huge Broncos fan so in honor of my husband and the Broncos, I made a little mantel display.

On the left is our Beethoven bust wearing a Broncos....hat.  The Bronco Logo was made with my Silhouette using this free file from Scrappy Cath.  I didn't like the looks of it on a plain, white background so I took a sheet of green cardstock and just marked some lines with a corrector pen (I don't have a white pen, lol).  The banner is from a generic pennant cut file and the letters are the Denver Broncos font found here.  I was going to use Easter grass in the jars, but I couldn't find any at the dollar store so I just used some rice and dyed it green (using this tutorial) with some Wilton green paste food coloring and vinegar.  Finally, the football was a cut file from the Silhouette store.  I didn't have any brown paper so I used part of a paper bag (necessity is the mother of invention).  Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

Happy Festivus!

 

This was made for a great friend of mine who LOVES Festivus and celebrates it every year.  Just for fun, I preinted up a donation card to the Human Fund (Money for People).

Deck the Halls

 

I fought myself the entire time not to add anything but since I was going for minimalist, that's just what I did.  I used a simple leaf branch punch and some circles.  The window was a file I had made for my mom and saved so I thought I'd use it here.  I placed the window on with dimensionals.

Santa Claus is coming to town!

I saw this mantle decor piece for sale at Terrys Village(Here) and fell in love.  I used the photo to trace into my Silhouette software to come up with this.  It's a pretty intricate cut but it did really well.  The moon is just a circle of cream cardstock and the blue background is embossed with the Swiss Dots folder. I'll probably add a sentiment later depending on who I send it to.

White Poinsettia

 

For this card, I combined three other cards I had seen on the web for ideas.  I  found a line drawing of the poinsettia and made a cut file.  I added some veins with my scorer.  The leaves were from a photo of a poinsettia leaf that I converted into a silhouette and the yellow are just dots.  I embossed the top and bottom with the same folder and added a few score lines.  As usual, I have no sentiment stamps so I just printed it.

Snowflake

 

I really can't stand photos where I have to use flash.  In this case, the blue square was embossed with plaid and it couldn't be seen in any other photo.  I just used my score pad to make the plaid pattern.

Merry Kissmas

This one I fell in love with and the shape is from the Silhouette store and the idea is from their blog.  I rarely buy any shapes, but I really love this one.  I haven't put a sentiment on it yet....not sure if I will.

Embossed Squares

 

I saw something similar on Pinterest so I through my own take on it.  I have these small embossing folders (less than 2" each) that I thought would look cute,

Reindeer

OK, So it's been a very busy couple of months (including one vacation) so I haven't posted in awhile.  I will make up for it today :D.

Happy Birthday

 

Simple Birthday card for a coworker.  I already had the birthday medallion (from Silhouette collection) and I used a piece of brown cardstock with a candle embossing folder from Cuttlebug.  I had a few scraps of orange cardstock that I used for 'ribbon'