Trying to get a few greeting cards finished that I started a year ago or so.  Here is one of the cards I stitched back then and is now completed.

Several weeks ago, I started playing with Circle Flip-It die-cuts to create new greeting cards.  Wow!  Am I having fun!

Whew!  These are fun!  However, I have a problem with them.  Regular card stock is too weak for the folds of the cards. They separate in no time.  I have tried several varieties of heavier card stock, but not much better.  After visiting Urban Scrapbooker, I picked up a couple of sheets of heavy card stock that may work.  I need to work with it a little bit more to be sure.  Stay tuned on this.  In the meantime, here are some more greeting cards created for our Holiday Craft Show stock:

Love this two-layered Seattle skyline design!

Since we live in the Puget Sound area of Washington state (Seattle area), there are a lot of Seahawks and Sounders fans.  I almost sold out of Seattle greeting cards at a show in September, so I had to restock for our November and December shows.

And now for some non-sports greeting cards....

Have you checked out our new website yet?  Greeting cards, etched glassware and handmade chocolates are up for sale.  Currently, the choice of stock is small. It is difficult to keep a website well stocked when caring for a loved one and attending all their medical appointments; and still create for shows and/or upload website stock.  Thank you for your patience as we continually work on this.  Of course, if you see anything on our blog you want to buy, just let us know and we'll email you an invoice.

Our new website also lists craft shows the next few weeks.  I'll list them here for your convenience:

St. Pious X Holiday Bazaar

22105 - 58th Avenue West

Mountlake Terrace, WA 

November 14 - 15

Saturday 10:00 am to 7:00 pm

Sunday 10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Many of the items you see on our blog will be at the craft shows; what is on our website will not.  Hope to see you at the Bazaar!

We now have a website where you can buy our handmade greeting cards, hand-etched glassware and handmade chocolates.

All greeting cards are handmade using a variety of scrapbooking papers; rubber stamps, templates and die cuts; ink, pastels, embossing pastes and powders; and ribbon/twine, beads/pearls/rhinestones, buttons, brads, flowers and other bling.

The stamps on the postage stamp greeting cards are real stamps from the USA and around the world.

The stitching on cross stitch greeting cards are all done by hand via the counted cross stitch method.

Designs on all glassware is drawn by hand on a mask, design cut out and then etched by hand using the acid paste method.  They are dishwasher safe (as long as the glass itself is dishwasher safe).

Our White, Milk and Dark chocolates are sweet like Belgium and Swiss chocolates.  The chocolates come in a variety of shapes (animals, seashells, flowers, etc.). We also make Dark Chocolate/Caramel Truffles and Milk Chocolate/Vanilla Cream Truffles.

Remember, our chocolates are Celiac safe; and peanut, tree nut and egg free.

Late August and early September, I sat down in my work room and made up a bunch of my stamp greeting cards.  At my last show, a customer commented that I didn't have any new cards.  Oh my -- they are paying attention!  So here is what I created over several days of work....

  Base paper Travel Documented (teresa collins)

 Base paper White Wash (core'dinations). Found the Seahawks ribbon at Hobby Lobby.

 White glitter Seattle skyline on metallic dark gray base.

 White flat Seattle skyline on black tie base.

One customer at the last show bought 6 of these Seattle skyline cards.  Now I need to make more before the next show in October.

 Base paper is Life's Journey (K&Company)

 Base paper is The Heirloom stack (DCWV)

 Base paper is from World Traveler stack (DCWV)

 Both Monkey cards base paper are from Safari paper pack (the paper studio)

Single Butterfly card, Rose card above and this Cactus Flower base papers are from Life's Journey paper pack (K&Company)

 Base paper Peach Blossom (wild rose studio)

 Base paper from Butterfly Garden (wild rose studio)

 Base paper Letters from Paris (wild rose studio)

 Both the Star Wars base papers are from Tattered Time (tim holtz) paper pack

Love these cards!  I'll probably do another batch of stamp greeting cards before my holiday craft shows to ensure I have enough to get through the season.  Now on to other cards....