Thursday, December 16, 2010

Christmas Stockings

Ho-ho-ho, a quick post to let you know I'm still alive ... hanging in ... OK, drowning in responsibilities if you must know the truth.

Somebody should have reminded me that it is unwise to try to become a grandmother (and want to spend time gazing into the perfect little eyes of a newborn!), do anything at all for Christmas (e.g., shop, wrap, cards, decorate, bake), AND start a new full-time day job, AND be an elected official in my community who is struggling to get to a balanced budget by year-end....

... and craft and sleep ... and ... and ...

Well, anyway, enough whining about me. How's your life? Here is a relatively quick card I made where I cut the stockings out using a Cricut cartridge, embellished with ribbon and sliced paper ... velvet ribbon (yum, my favorite!) ... and a badge that was printed with the sentiment then cut with Cricut Cake Basics and machine stitched. I mounted the badge with foam dots for dimension. Oh, and added a punched border just because....

I hope you enjoy!

2 comments:

Carley said...

I love the card but yeah newborns tend to have some kind of cuteness spell they put on you. When I had both my boys I just wanted to stare at them for hours! Congrats on the new grandbaby!

Shawn Mosch said...

Focus on the grandbaby . . . the rest will wait.

As always, I love the card! Happy Holidays sister!