live, love, laugh, create: A Card And Cookie Swap

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A Card And Cookie Swap

I have been suffering from a lack of creative mojo lately. It might be the lighting class I am taking which is all technical and no creativity. I admit that I am also a procrastinator. But I work well under pressure, so I got 10 cards done for the card swap tomorrow night in about 2 hours. I had chosen my materials a few weeks ago based on something I saw in the 2peas gallery. This card had a lot of detail and seemed pretty labor intense, but it is really cute. I changed mine up a bit so I could use what I had on hand.

I have had these My Mind's Eye and Bazzil paper packs for quite a while, saving them for "something special", of course. So given the fact that the card swap is Monday night, they fit into the "something special" occasion without a doubt.

I purchased these stamps from Technique Tuesday with plans to include them in my December Daily album pages. They worked well for this project too.

I bought this Basic Grey Jovial stamp set from 2peas. I actually had better luck buying it through Amazon.com. ,although it did still come from 2peas. Go figure....

The cards were a little labor intense, at least for me. I don't have the patience for cutting at all, and there was 10 snowmen, 10 hats, 10 scarves, 10 carrot noses, 10 pairs of eyes and 10 pairs of arms to stamp and cut out.

All in all, I think they came out pretty good given the fact that I am not much of a card maker any more.

Here is the inside sentiment

Now its on to the cookies....I have a recipe for the Starbucks Cranberry Bliss bars, so I thought I would make those...5 dozen to be exact. The beauty of making bars is that you can cut them up small so you don't have to make nearly as much as you would for drop cookies. I'm all about saving time since I also have to study for my final and upload my photos for print for the final project.