It's beginning to look alot like Christmas..

Every etsy store you go..
Or something.
Well my shop is decked out for Christmas anyway. I usually wait until Thanksgiving week to add a new banner and all, but I'll be super busy then, so I figured early is better than late right?



I've already sold some tags this year, but there are plenty more in the shop, and it's the perfect time to get your own. We have lots of new designs this year, and many more are coming soon.

Today I listed these adorable Nordic inspired tags. Sweet and simple, but oh so pretty. (and guess what, any time you order anything in the shop during the christmas season, you'll get one of these beauties free!)




My favorites in the shop however, have to be these silver jingle bells.

I L-O-V-E them! And other must like them too, because I've been featured here, and here, and here, and here. So much love, I am so thankful!!!

There are also new journals coming this week, they make excellent christmas gifts! Two years ago I made over twenty fairytale inspired journals and gave them to my friends. If you are trying to come up with a great gift, these would fit the bill.

If I can find time, I am also going to list a few of these nifty gifts for readers. So cute, and filled with customized bookplates and bookmarks. So great for the bookworm, and the perfect size for a stocking stuffer!

Remember, I love love custom orders, but my cut off date for filling them will be soon, so if you want anything special, be sure to convo or email me soon!

I know this is a shameless self promotion blog post, but never fear there will be a new "etsy finds" blog post up soon!

It's raining hearts!

Hey everyone! I thought I'd pop in and show some of the stuff I've been creating recently.

With Valentine's day right around the corner I've been making lots of things with hearts and such.
My newest umbrella card is a valentines card.

Whimsical pink clouds drop hearts instead of raindrops...


I made this cute little box about a week ago. I wanted to list it in the shop, but mom pointed out that we didn't have a box to ship it in and we didn't really know what to price it as far as shipping goes, so I'll probably be giving it as a gift or just keep it for myself :)


I found this cute vintage-valentine paper at hobby-lobby a couple months ago when we were in Phoenix. I used stickles glitter on the top to accent some of the cute images. I also took some vintage red ric-rac and wrapped it around the sides of the lid and completed it with my favorite red polka-dot ribbon.


This is another card I made a few weeks ago, it was originally for my shop, but we had heard that shipping square cards cost more to post, so I would hate for someone to buy a card and then have to pay more than usual to ship it, so we need to confirm that before we list any square cards. :) So I'll just keep this one to myself. The pink mini valentines in the shop match this card though!


Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a grand day!

~Elissa

You make me Happy

So I know I promised a post way more than week ago, but then I got sick and didn't feel like doing anything. So here is the promised post, albeit a bit delayed.

I wanted to give you a peek into the newest card in the shop "My Sunshine"

A few days ago, I think it was Wednesday, I was too sick to craft, but after seeing a poster with some of the lyrics to the song "You are my sunshine" in bright sunny yellow, I had the inspiration to make this card. I've been itching to use our adorable new stamp set from PTI called "Scattered Showers" that has an adorable umbrella, so even though I couldn't craft, I grabbed my sketch book and roughly sketched this out.

eek. My umbrella makes me cringe. But give me some slack, I hadn't slept in a while, and I sketched it in about 10 seconds :)



Which a day or so later I cleaned up into this


That is not my normal handwriting, but I knew I wanted something simple and so I printed instead of my cutesy handwriting :)


I finally started to feel a bit better yesterday, so I whipped up this prototype, and while I love it, it wasn't quite shop worthy. I absolutely loved the rounded corners on the word box, So I decided to make the next card with rounded corners.
The Card in Progress. As you can see I'm a rather messy crafter. My scrap paper makes me giggle. A sideways owl silhouette, half- stamped umbrellas and yellow scribbles. :)




So after the sketches and prototype, this is the final result.

I went a little crazy on the clouds, there are certainly more than I intended, but I still love the card. I have another one in the works - the same design, only with a red umbrella with tiny polka dots!

I hope you enjoyed a look into the creative process behind my latest design!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/66938550/yellow-and-teal-umbrella-and-clouds-card

Have an Amazing weekend!

~Elissa

This is an original design and is the property of Delightfulhands Please do not copy this design to sell.

New items in the shop!

I'll be popping in later in the week for a more substantial post, but I just wanted to share some new items in the shop.

Pink Mini Valentines.


Fairy Tales Can Come True journal.



Shakespearean Buterflie journal.
Buterflie is the middle English spelling of Butterfly, so I thought since it was a Shakespeare inspired journal, that the title would be fitting.


My love is like a rose greeting card. This card was inspired by my favorite love song "My love is like a red, red rose." All I knew was that I wanted a big red rose card, and this is the result!


Butterfly Bliss Journal. One of my favorite journals I've made lately. In fact, I'm on my way to the craft room right now to make a similar one for a birthday gift.

Papercrafting Wednesday

Hi all! I owe a couple of friends some letters, so I thought I would make a cute note card to write the letter in. I love these colors right now, every time I go to make something I grab this aqua blue. ;o) Hop on over to Kelli's and see what everyone else has made!







~Heather

Kelli's Papercrafting Challenge~ Birthday card & Bookmarks

I am finally back on track (for now) and able to participate in my friend Kelli's paper crafting challenge. This week I made a birthday card and matching bookmark for my friend Therese for her birthday. Elissa loved the bookmark so much that I made her and I spring bookmarks.

~Heather

Valentine Cards

On one of my Yahoo Groups, we had a valentine exchange. Here are a few of the valentines that I made. I made several of some of these. I think I ended up making about 35 valentines altogether.


This is the one I made for Steve.

I made a lot of this particular one.

I also made several different styles of this one.

This was my very favorite, it was very shabby chic! ;o)

Thank you cards

These are some of the thank you cards that I made for Christmas gifts. The stamped images are from Stampin UP! and Paper Trey Ink.

~Heather