The past few months of cards...

Hi Card friends...

Happy Monday, hope it finds you feeling inspired to make something cute! I need to find more time to feel inspired and crafty, I find I've been making cards only when I need them, not when I just want to. I find I make the card not feeling inspired, and I think I need to start trying to just make cards when the mood strikes. Then I can tuck the cards away for when I need them. I think making a list of cards I'd need in the future would be a good idea, then when the card making mood strikes, I can look at my list and start crafting. Then I won't feel so rushed when I need a card for a specific reason, I'll already have them done. Just some random rambling from me this Monday morning!

A card for Brandon's Nana's birthday... stamp sets used, Every Little Bit & Think Happy Thoughts... Love using my stamp'n write markers to color it in!

This was my first BIG all in the family creation... don't know if I shared this before... it was for my father-in-law's birthday... it's the whole BING family!

Another "All in the Family" creation, used for my friend Kerry's Birthday, had to finish this one off in the dark since the power went out!

A little Christmas Card for my friend Terri... again used "Every Little Bit" and "Think Happy Thoughts". I love using a stamp to create a back drop!! Also loved this color combo... why can't pink be for Christmas- right??

This was a little welcome baby card for my new niece Alexis back in November... "Every Little Bit" used again... it's a stamp set that I would recommend for sure... so many uses!

This was a goodbye card for a friend who was moving to Australia, I thought the little world people was a great choice since she was moving across the world... "The World Over".

Hope my moments of inspiration, inspire you to make something cute today!! If you have a card you'd love to share with our card making friends, please e-mail them to Kathy or I and we'd love to post them on here for everyone to see!

Have a great day!

Karen

Merry Christmas with "All in the Family"

Please continue down after this post to view Kathy's card giveaway... it's fantastically cute! There are three ways to enter and each entry requires a comment!

So as many of my stampin' club friends know I have been starting to collect the "All in the Family" stamp sets, I've loved them for a LONG time and knew that there was so much I could do with them. What kept me from buying them in the past was that I had no idea how you would build the people, because there was no way to see where you were stamping. Well then I was introduced to the Stamp-a-ma-jig (pg.198 in catalogue) which is amazing. I'd love to know who came up with this idea. Anyway, it allows you to line up your stamps perfectly, so these little people can be built!

I decided this year for my family cards to use "All in the Family" to create holiday family pictures, for our family members. It was fun to create the people and try to create different clothing looks using the few options your given in the set. I'm hoping in the future that they'll bring out a set with more clothes options. For these cards I also used the tree from "Loads of Love" and the present from "Family Accessories". Hope you enjoy a look at my cards and that your inspired to use this set. More posts to come with what this set can do!

This is my little sister Laura and I

a card for my mom and dad...

A card for The Nelson Family... there are seven in the family... so the kids made the cover and Kathy and Jeff were inside!

The Bing's: Jaccob and Sarah and their cat Addy

The Fielden's: Chelsey and Ryan... so sad they have a bird named Petie and I didn't think I had a stamp for that, but it turns out that I did... so bummed not to get to add it on here.

Brittany and her boyfriend Ian and her dog Lucy

The Stewarts: Meaghan, Jason and Baby Alexis with their dog Buddy

My in-laws The Bings: Peter and Laureen

The O'Hearons: Mike, Keah, Finley and Emmy

I LOVED how they turned out!!