Tiara is beautiful and its a joy to see such a gorgeous bloom first thing this morning. Its sunny here today and the temp is supposed to be 60. I was planning to work in the yard today but my 16 year old got up with a fever of 101.6 and I'm trying to cough up a lung so something tells me we'll be going to the Immediate Care clinic. Strep is going around his school. Yuk. As always your pictures are beautiful and always a joy to wake up to. Thanks Lucy.

I love your card! What a cute idea. I've been planning to make some cards with raised designs. I'm not sure what they are called, but the end result is a 3D scene. I think I'll try the movable parts cards too. Do you have any other ideas? I've been wanting to make the puppets from photos. I'll try to find the website with instructions and post a link. they are so cute!

Hi Kathy, I did this card last year. I used Picture It Publisher but I think you could do it in any program. We took a picture of our family. Then I found a cute graphic of a Santa that had a nice round head. I then duplicated the graphic four times and changed the graphic up a bit each time by sizing and switching it. I added the text and border on the front and put a greeting on the inside under where the photo would be. I placed the family picture onto the card to place each Santa where I wanted him and then deleted the photo and printed out the card with just the Santa's. I cut out each Santa's face with an exacto knife (actually my DH did this part) and checked to make sure our faces showed through. The Santa's are on the front and our family picture is on the inside. I attached the photo with double back tape so the people that I sent the picture to could take it off and have it for posperity. LOL The card was really fun to make. I did one similar with snowmen another time but I can't find it in my files. I actually found a card that had four snowmen on the front so it wasn't as complicated. I think the snowman card was in a different program. Can't remember, too much water under the bridge. LOL That time I cropped our faces, cropped out the snowman faces and put our faces in their place like the photo cards you see. Great thread. I love hearing other people's ideas. Here is a link that might be useful:

I haven't seen any stamping on Mulberry before. I knew I wanted the paper but tried to use a vellum on top and that didn't look right so I just tried it out. I was happy with how it turned out. The crinkled paper I got in package of Decorative papers by Black Ink from Michael's. I think there was only one sheet in the pack. I did have some other very nice gold papers which I used on some of the cards. I also got some gold tissue that has dull/shiny surface from the tissue area at Michael's. I cut it to the size I wanted and then crumpled it up into a tight ball in my hand and then spread it out flattening it. I used the same techniques on cards a couple of years ago.