Creating for Christmas

Creating from the heart

is the way I try to create!

It's certainly why I just love to 

purchase these adorable metal hearts

so

I always look around for these when I see

Christmas decorations starting to appear at our

wonderful local nursery and gift shop.

I do love the plumpness and smoothness of this particular shape 

as well as its shiny silver tone.

It really puts me in the right frame of mind

as I start to create some Christmas Cards for friends,

family and a few orders too.

I don't see myself as a religous type of person, however,

I am very drawn to images of the Madonna and Child

at Christmas time or any other time for that matter!

I love the images used here from these (Holy) cards

where they sit amongst a few gifted pieces like these 

 vintage watch faces, brown embroidered lace and 

rhinestone pieces which were recently given to me from

Lisa  (Tarnished and Tattered Blog) as part of a 

recent swap - more about that in a later post!

Besides using some favorite images, I included stamping

but I do love the no fuss - simplicity of these finished cards.

as well as Washi tape which I rarely use at other times.

On the cards below I used some tiny scraps of

some special vintage laces 

that will be going off to some special friends.

These last three I created as part of an order

for a local shop. I just love the combination

of the blue/grey and browns

in these ones.

 I'm linking my post to Grey Dey Thursdey

over at Petite Michelle Louise Blog where you will see

some stunning Winter greys of Christmas.

Thank you always for your lovely comments - they truly

are always appreciated!

xox Suzy