Lilies as Poinsettias

I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was busy, but fun. The best surprise was to see a Kentucky Fried Chicken's first franchise in Croatia in our favorite mall! I know that is not a big deal to you all in the US, but for us who only have had McDonald's for the last 10+ years, this is a welcome change. We rarely ate at KFC when we lived in the US, but it's nice to have something new that's familiar. We haven't been, just because there were literally 100 or so people in line. I hope this is the first of many US restaurants coming to Croatia. I'm still wishing for a Panda Express or PF Chang's... :)

Today's card is one I made a year or so ago, but never shared here. It uses some Gina K Designs stamps and October Afternoon papers. These flowers were actually lilies and I colored them to look more like poinsettias.

If you missed it last week, I shared a download for printable tags. I embellished them with ribbons, lace and whatever was on my desk at the time. Here are two I made, one using a Santa image form The Graphics Fairy. I'm entering this to their Brag Monday challenge.

Click on the tag graphics below to download.

Free Tag Printables

In the spirit of Christmas, I have some printable tags for you to use. I had fun designing these and I hope you will like them. I tried to include all different styles, from vintage to graphic. I printed them and embellished with scraps of ribbons, lace, and whatever was laying on my desk at that time :).

For these two, I inked the edges with Distress Inks to make them look even older.

You can download by clicking on the photo below.

The Santa image is from The Graphics Fairy. The vintage flower is courtesy of VintageHolidayCrafts.com. Please take note of my Terms of Use (included in the download file) and leave me a comment if you use these tags, so we can all see. Thank you!

Victorian Christmas

I hope you all had a great thanksgiving weekend. Even though we didn't get time off here in Croatia, I enjoyed my self-imposed break from blogging and it was nice! We had our own "lite" version of Thanksgiving with our little family with fried chicken, sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce. We even did our own version of Black Friday shopping, but no such good deals here. I did finish shopping for my girls, so that's good!

Speaking of Black Friday deals, one of my favorite online shops, Two Peas In a Bucket, is having 20% off all their products (not non-digital, non-phaseout products). Specially note-worthy are their Copic marker sales, some are marked down 50% off!

Today's card is for Card Patterns sketch this week. The sponsor is The Craft's Meow.  I used my Vintage Snowflakes set, along with Melissa Frances papers and a vintage image from The Graphics Fairy. Some Want2Scrap bling, lace and twill tape accent the card.

Speaking of challenges, The Craft's Meow is also sponsoring the Lily Pad Sketch Challenge until Dec 1st!.

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Everything Beautiful card

It's Unity's Friends with Flair Friday and I have a vintage shabby card for you today. The paper is by Webster's Pages, the beautiful vintage digital image is downloaded from The Graphics Fairy, which makes it perfect for this:

The plant square stamp is from A Pocket Full KOTM, the crown is from the Believe in Fairytales Store KOTM and the Bible verse is from Something Within. The flowers and leaves are by Prima.

Make sure you check out the Unity blog for a list of participants and find the flair for a chance to win some Unity stamps.

I also have a challenge/giveaway going on now. Check it out HERE.