Holiday Cards

Instead of doing housework, I'm creating cards!  I used stockings from the Very Merry Tags cartridge using my Gypsy (I'm still learning how to use it) and the Recollections Holiday Traditions paper pad.  This card was one mistake after another.... I wasn't going to put a greeting at the top, but I dribbled Glossy Accents and had to cover it up!

I'm entering this card in FCCB's Challenge #88 - Holiday Card

My second holiday card used a SVG from Lettering Delight's Holiday Lights set.  The snowman was sooo adorable.  I cut out all his layers and then embossed the white layer in my Big Shot.  The acetate background has snowflakes that I stamped with Staz-On white ink.  I learned this technique in the Holiday Boot Card Boot Camp.

I'm entering this card in the 2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Holiday Card

Thanks for looking!

A Nordic Christmas Card

We're up to Day 9 of the Boot Camp!  I had a short time last night to work on a card and thought a sketch from Day 6 would help me put together a card quickly.  Here's the sketch:

Using Basic Grey's Nordic paper and images from Lettering Delight's Nordic Christmas set, here's my finished product:

The sentiment is again from PTI's Stylish Sentiments - Holiday.  There's so many great ideas from this class that I'll be making cards for a while!  (If I can squeeze that in between all of my band volunteer activities!)

Thanks for looking!

HCBC - Day 4

Hello!  Today's day 4 of the card boot camp and I loved the look of Jennifer's card, BUT....

a. I didn't have the tree stamp

b. I didn't have the acetate note card

SO....I improvised. I used my Staz-On to stamp snowflakes onto a piece of transparency.  This was the first time I used Staz-On and it came out pretty good.

Next, I used an SVG image of the "Merry Christmas" tree and drew it on a blue paper with my Cri-Kit pen.  I colored it in with Smooch Sundance and inked the white dots with the Uniball White pen.  Then I adhered everything onto a piece of gold paper stock.

The picture isn't very good, but I'm satisfied.  Jennifer McGuire's technique taught me how to use acetate on cards, which I'd never done before.   I also found time to make Jennifer's card from day one of the camp:

The more I look at this card, the more I enjoy its homey feeling.  I've done 5 cards so far in the camp and can't wait to see what goodies we'll see tomorrow!

Thanks for looking.



 



HCBC - Day 3

We had another great day of instruction and ideas in the Holiday Card Boot Camp!  I have to admit that I struggled waaay too much over embossing and just couldn't get anything to work right - the colors looked wrong or the embossing didn't work.  I ended up using the card pattern idea without embossing.

The inspiration card had a circle cutout with an image hanging within the circle.  However, I decided to use a stamped image that I made from Kristina W's Holiday Card Series (card #5) as the background that peeks thru the circle.  I love the bird and soft background.

Here's the inside of the card:

I created an SVG file of the card with a circle, which you can download for free: Card with circle

Now I'm off to try making another card!



Holiday Card Class!

I signed up for the Holiday Card Class that starts November 7th!  I can hardly wait - this is my first online card class.  I hope to post some beautiful cards and use up my holiday paper from last year.

Anyone else attending??  Let me know!  I'm off to buy my class supplies!



Birthday card using ruffle technique

Using a tutorial from Operation Write Home on the dimensional ruffle technique, (Ruffle Card), I made a birthday card for my mother-in-law.  It's a great technique to use up my scraps, which I have waaay too many of!  Here's the card:

I don't get to make too many feminine cards, so I just had to go with a pink sparkly butterfly that I cut out using SCAL.

Lots and lots of ruffles, with dimensional stickers to pop them up a bit:

I'm entering this card in these two challenges:

Birthday Sundaes: Birthday Sundae Challenge #12

Card Making Mamas: Anything Goes Challenge

Thanks for looking!



FCCB Blue Skies challenge

This week the ladies at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge blog challenged us to make something using blue and at least one cloud.  I made this card using a cloud from the Every Day Paper dolls cartridge.

I believe the paper is from a DCWV paper pack from last year.  I love the cloud papers and used up both sheets of them (or I thought I did).  When I was rummaging thru my blue papers, I was happy to find a little scrap of it still left, which I used on this card.

I'll probably give this card to the Operation Write Home project.  Thanks for looking!



FCCB Challenge #54

The latest Fantabulous Cricut Challenge is "April Showers" which challenges us to create a project using an umbrella or hat.  Most of the ladies entering are favoring umbrellas, so I chose a hat instead.  I've been busy making cards to send to the troops overseas and I thought my Howdy! card would work with my project.  Here's the card:

The "Howdy!" is an SVG from Just Yolie and so is the hat, but I don't remember where I got it from!  I took a piece of aluminum foil and embossed with a Cuttlebug folder and then burnished it with some Perfect Pearls powder.   I think it's a good male card to give to a soldier.

Thanks for looking!