Christmas Banner and a Good Bye

Hello Cardz TV Gallery friends, Brenda here from Friends Crafting with Friend and it is my turn to share a project with you. It is with a heavy heart that I tell you that this will be my last post for Mary's Gallery DT. It has been a struggle to create since the passing of my beloved husband and I just don't feel I'm giving a 100% to my DT projects anymore. I think I just need to focus on getting some scrapping done of my late husband so I can heal some and decide who I am without him. Sounds weird I know, but how I am feeling right now. Also my German Shepard, Savannah is keeping me very busy as well. I've never owned a big dog before and she isn't like my sweet little Pockets, who I had to have put down as well. Anyway, I hope to come back and design for Mary one day, but who really knows what God has in store for me. I hope I continue to do some crafting in some form, but one never knows. Right now, I'm just going to focus on getting crafty in my scrapbooking and gifts. It's been a pleasure and honor designing for you Mary, I will miss you and the design team very much!! I plan to keep up with both blogs as well cause I don't want to miss anything. Mary, you are awesome and I thank you for having me as a designer!!!!

Now that that is out the way, lets move onto my last project for the Gallery. I did a banner for my bathroom. I had a cute little one before that I hung at the bottom of my mirror, but over time (many years) it got wet and such, so I finally trashed it and decided to make another. This one I hung up high so water wouldn't be an issue. I'm sorry for the pictures, hard to get a good photo in the bathroom!!! The recipe is on my blog if you are interested. The Cardz TV stamp sets I used are: Glad Tidings and Merry Everything and you can find them here. 

Crafty hugs,
Brenda

Here is my banner before I put the gems on the letters.

With the gems and hanging on my bathroom mirror, up close.

Trying to get a pic of the whole mirror, didn't quite get it.

Another angle

A better view

Merry Everything Christmas Tags

Hello Crafty Friends, Jeri here today! Can you believe it is only 10 days until Christmas? I sure can't! Today I have a couple holiday tags to share with you using the new Cardz TV Stamps set Merry Everything. I have a fun version and a fancy version. I'm so excited to have whipped up my first project, these shaker tags, using my new FUSE tool. One of my favorite techniques to use to stretch my stamps is cutting them apart to use them to make different sentiments, or in this case pairing part of the sentiment with a die cut sentiment. I cut apart the Merry Everything sentiment and just used the word Everything which I heat embossed on a fish tail banner.  For more details on how I made these tags please visit my blog Bug n' Me Creations. Thanks for stopping by the Gallery today and I hope you return tomorrow for another fabulous design.