It is on Stampboard - which I love working on, and has nice thick sides that are great to decorate (see second photo) and the piece hangs easily on a wall.  I used one of my favorite characters - nesting girl and have her sitting on a wall of vintage wallpaper.  I made a paper ornament that has a banner and glitter letters saying "Comfort and Joy".  It was a lot of fun to make! 

I also did an ornament swap and they are all ready to be shipped tomorrow - here is a photo of them in the works - they are sugar plum fairies!

I usually do not do many swaps, but I have been in a swapping mood lately!  I even convinced (though it took no arm twisting at all) Melfie to do a Christmas Music CD swap with me - since we are both Christmas music nuts!  Can not wait to get together with her and exchange (and have coconut cake - that is our thing)!

Lastly, my mom always wants me to make her Christmas cards - which I love to do - she really loved the HO HO HO Santa that is on one of my Christmas gift tags so I made here these:

Other things to share...

new card in the shop

A sneak peak at some of the new cards coming very soon

Hangtags and Business Cards I just finished designing for the talented owner of Mood Swing Studio!

And now,  every other entry was put into a hat for a drawing.... drum roll please.... And the winners are....

suesue and Annie!

Congrats to the winners - I will be contacting you in a bit... but for everyone else, a little parting prize... if you purchase 3 collage sheets between now and Sunday night, I will include the 4th for free!  Just enter "Parting Prize" in the comments section of check out.

Thanks for playing everyone!  I plan to do this again in a week or so when I have another collage sheet ready - which reminds me, don't forget to let me know what you look for in collage sheets so I can make it wonderful for  you!

Cheers!  And thanks to Dan for drawing the names and letting me use the hat your mom made!

The contest is almost over....  Winners will be posted tomorrow am!  Today is the last day!  Tomorrow morning I will pick my favorite name from the suggestions submitted and that person will win a free sheet and some other goodies... then, the remaining names will go into a hat and 2 names will be drawn by my friend Dan (and we are using the hat his mom made for him to keep with the handmade / indie spirit) and they will also get a copy of the newly named collage sheet and some other goodies.

I have had a lot of fun with this - so I think I may have to make another collage sheet (that is not all hats or wings) so we can have this contest again!  What do you think??  And, so I can make sheets to better suit your needs - what do you look for in a collage sheet?  What do you love??

Here is what I have been up to...

Custom lockets made for a friend to give her family members.  The backsides have family photos.  The lockets were handmade by Bloomstyle and are sterling silver.

This collage was made for a company to display at the Craft and Hobby show in California this January.  They made this new art panel and the surface was so wonderful to work on. 

That is really it.  All my Christmas shopping is done and everything is wrapped and under the tree.  I love this time of year, the goodwill of others, Christmas music, holiday decorations, seeing delight on someone's face when they open a gift I gave them...  I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!

I ordered my first ever kit from Bella Paper Studios and had so much fun with it I had to share.  There are actually three projects, and I have only completed one so far.  I added some vintage/antique paper to it (go figure) and am debating on adding wings - it is so very hard for me to create something without wings! 

If you have never ordered a kit - you should - it was so fun working on it, and I look forward to the other 2 projects I still have left to do!

Oh, and here are pieces of my childhood I thought I would share...