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Holiday Card & Tag ideas from Laura Williams

Laura Williams designed this gift tag and coordinated card that is perfect for your holiday gift giving.  I love the brighter colors!    Very cute Laura!  Thanks for the inspiration!

Notice how Laura used the Large Banner Stamp (upside down) to create a holiday tree for her gift tag and the pink themed card below.

This card is so cute with it's non-traditional colors:

You can see more of Laura's adorable designs at her blog: www.lauralooloo.blogspot.com

Christmas Card Inspiration

Laura Williams used our Little Christmas Cottage stamp to create two very colorful and bright Christmas Cards.  The first one also uses the outline of the RicRac Circle stamp.  Laura used a second image of the house to add a some dimension to this card.  I love how the bold graphic papers give this card a more modern look. 

This next card is also very clean and simple in design.  The last thing you want to do when making your holiday cards is to create a design so complex that you are spending hours on each card.  This design has a good balance and some added dimension with the three buttons.  You could easily spend an evening doing the stamping part of the card on white cardstock, then another evening finishing the assembly of the final card.
 

Great designs, Laura, Thanks so much for making these cards for us!  Laura is still creating, so more to come from this talented designer. 

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Judi has landed in Nebraska and has started her very fun Silver Bella Weekend.  I can't wait to see all the fun projects that she comes home with!  She has been working for weeks on all the swaps and projects to take and share with the other Bella Girls.  The highlight of the event will be the chance to meet and hear some inspiration from Mary Engelbreit.  I promise to make her share her Bella creations when she returns! 

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Pink Persimmon Shipping Department closed from November 18th - 25th.
You are still welcome to place orders during that time, but the shipping department (that sounds impressive, but it really is just me!) will be taking a much needed holiday with my family.  I promise to have all the orders ready to go out on the 26th so you should get them in time to still do those holiday cards and tags. 

Little Christmas Cottage Winner!

Thanks to everyone who submitted some great ideas about how they are going to save money this holiday season!  I think everyone really appreciates hand-made gifts and it sounds like there will be lots of happy recipients this holiday. 

Our random winner is "scrappermimi".
 

Send us an email with your address and we'll get your Little Christmas Cottage Stamp Set in the mail right away! 

How are you saving money this holiday?

The big topic in our house is how are we going to save money this holiday season (and into the foreseeable future as well). We want to know what things you are doing in your house to be "thrifty" or just cut back a bit.  How does this effect your crafting dollars?  Homemade gifts for the family?  Tell us what you are making.  Share your tips and in return, we'll pick a random post to receive our Little Christmas Cottage stamp set so the winner can get started on their handmade Christmas Cards.  (That should save a few dollars!)

While all the trend watchers are trying to predict how our Society will change with the recession, this was quite amusing from the New York Times:   "A downturn, then, could result in benefits unmeasured by the market. “If people eat out less, the G.D.P. goes down,” Mr. Conley said, “but nothing in the G.D.P. captures what you gain if you cook and eat in a leisurely way with your kids.”

Post your tip before November 7th and we'll do the random drawing on the 8th.