Over at Jingle Belles Rock blog site they do a weekly Christmas card Challenge! this week is to make a Christmas Card without using designer paper!!! It's a CARDSTOCK CHRISTMAS!!!
These are my cards for this Challenge! 
I drew inspiration from Splitcoaststampers Weekly Inkling #258 for a really cool side step card! It's really easy and quick! I can also see it with sand but that's another card. Since each card starts out at 5 1/2 x 81/2 you get two from one sheet of cardstock!! I then used my cuttlebug and embossed white cardstock with the Winter Village folder and 2 different snowflake folders.
I drew inspiration from Splitcoaststampers Weekly Inkling #258 for a really cool side step card! It's really easy and quick! I can also see it with sand but that's another card. Since each card starts out at 5 1/2 x 81/2 you get two from one sheet of cardstock!! I then used my cuttlebug and embossed white cardstock with the Winter Village folder and 2 different snowflake folders.It's hard to tell in these pictures but I cut the Winter village down to be the big step on the left side of one card and for the other I used it as the last step on the right for depth of field...
The snow flake folders were hand cut with my decorator scissors to mimic snow drifts. I used some stickers from my stash for Christmas Joy and found some rub ons clear in the bottom of my stash for the share Joy! Both images were colored by mom, who is 99 and still coloring strong!!! I used glitter everywhere on the Christmas Joy Card for Lauren at Jingle Belles and sparkly ribbon for me.
On the Share Joy card I used stick on bling that I won from over at Betty Bee's Buzz
Hope you like them they were fun to do and really easy! Check it out!! and give it a try!!!
On the Share Joy card I used stick on bling that I won from over at Betty Bee's BuzzHope you like them they were fun to do and really easy! Check it out!! and give it a try!!!check out over at Jingle Belles Rock and see what the other papercrafters came up with sans designer paper!!! should be lots of great ideas!!!
Let me know if you have any ideas to make my photos better. I've tried editing them on Picnik but still not happy with the results.... what am I doing wrong!?! The cards are so much better in person!!!
This is an easy and flashy card to make for any 
Supplies: 5 1/2 x 11 
Put a small f in the center section to mark the front of your card as a reminder. 
Wrap around 
Adhere together at bottom of card - apply adhesive generously but only to the plastic strip do not get any on the 
Do a Dry run - TA DA!!!
Put 1/4 sticky strip on edge.
Take off sticky strip cover. Wrap around slider mechanism (bottom slider) 
I colored my Renaissance Angel with 
Happy sliders to you!!!! 
Enjoy! Thanks for looking! 
I used my Give a Hoot Expression/Cricut Cartridge. You can get freezer paper at your grocery or wallyworld store. Put the dull side down on your cricut mat, the shiny side doesn't stick quite as well. If you use words make sure you hit your flip key on the Expression before you cut it out. Very carefully remove your stencil, make sure you don't tear it! You then iron the freezer paper to your project, shiny side down. Check to make sure you have all the small inner pieces if your stencil is very intricate. Make sure it's ironed down tight so you don't get any bleed under! 
Then your ready to paint your project! I used 1" foam brushes and glitter fabric paint.
Let set for a few minutes then carefully pull your stencil straight up and 
Judy Ford 
Shark infested waters off the gulf coast of Tampa Bay.... oooooooo...... aaaaaaahhhhhh..... was really fun to catch.... we let him/her?? go right after snapping the picture cuz he/she didn't snap off any fingers.... 
the grunts and black bass were not as lucky.... they became our supper!!!! 
The background is ghostly white cuttlebug embossed with Snow circles. The Red Frame is cut out with Sizzix hanging frame with scallops that I got as a door prize from 
My husband Don and I went out to Eggmont, near Tampa Bay on April 7th and I caught this bee-utiful 19in grouper. Too small to filet but a ton of fun to catch!!! 
My good friend, Henrietta Hoffman, and I donated 16 quilts to the local branch of Florida Baptist Children's Homes that we had made over this winter season. they were so excited to get them. They are completely funded by private donations and the Bradenton Florida branch deals only with foster care homes. 
Sherri was so excited to get these quilts and we could tell she was picking out the children that would receive them as she excitedly looked over our donation. 
She said these children are all ages and are coming out of crisis, abuse, violence, horrors to awful to even imagine. So many come to them with only the clothes on their backs or with a few things stuffed in garbage bags. Our hearts go out to these children. 
Henrietta and I are making this our ongoing project. Each month we will take over the quilts we've completed. Next year, we hope to expand our efforts with help from other members of our trailer community by doing a weekly sewing project at our hall. Sherri also said they can use small suitcases, bookbags or totes so the children can put their things in something other than a trash bag! Garage sales here I come.... bags, batting, material.... wow retail therapy for a good cause!!!! 
