Foiled Merry Christmas

The background stamp used on this card was from Gina's Twelve Days of Christmas from last year. Not sure when my new box will be arriving, but I won't peek until December 12! The sentiment was from Gina, also - poly-glaze and then foiled in gold. I die-cut it and matted it. I also matted the background piece. I die-cut and added some pine boughs for more interest. 

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Christmas with Frames

These frames were a set from last year's Twelve Days of Christmas box from Gina K. I cut them out of Christmas colors so I could add a couple more cards to my stack. The green one is glitter cardstock. I embossed the background with a Sizzix folder. The sentiment is an old wood-mounted one from Hero Arts. The image is from Hampton Art. I colored with Copics and added some white dots with a gel pen.

The image on this card is from Stampin' Up!

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Purple Ornaments

I've still had this die-cut image of four ornaments with the mirror cardstock behind it on my table for a while. I finally finished it up. I scored lines above and below the ornaments, then added thin metallic strips. The sentiment is from a new Kristina Werner/Concord & 9th set. The set is part of the bundle of stamps, dies and stencils for the upcoming Online Card Class. I stamped it and then die cut it and four more pieces and layered them together. The purple metallic strips and the purple behind the ornaments don't match perfectly, but they  match a lot better in real life than they do in the photo!

 
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Ornament Christmas

Another Christmas card for the stash. I used Spellbinders dies for this one. I backed it with a purple mirror cardstock. The ornament toppers are cut from holographic silver. The sentiment is embossed with silver, and I added a very thin strip of silver sticker across the top of the panel.

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Patterned Paper Christmas Cards

A few weeks ago, I made these Christmas cards - I was thinking about how fast time is flying!! They all feature patterned paper, so I'm linking this post to the "Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge" blog.

Not much to say about any of them - pretty self-explanatory. I have duplicates of a few of them, so 14 more done. What I REALLY need to do is work on my calendars for next year!

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Four Christmas Cards

I have several things going on in my stamping room. I was playing with crinkled and ironed wax paper. I also played with vellum over cardstock and then embossed. And I dug out some bird dies that I had. (Thanks, Leslie, for two of those!) I also got a new kit from Gina K and I really want to get started on using all the new stuff! Lucky for me I'm going away for a few days with a friend and her friends on a scrapbooking retreat. But, I will be making cards instead. Hopefully it will be very productive. I've also been messing around with rearranging my stamping room a bit. It's always something. :-)

Anyway, here are four cards I've made. I'm going to save my ironed, wrinkled wax paper for another time. I have eight card fronts that I've used that technique on, just waiting to be used.

This first card uses a Sizzix embossing folder. I used white mulberry paper over cardstock for the base for this embossed and die-cut bird, which I believe is from Spellbinders. The sentiment is from Impression Obsession.

This one also uses a Spellbinders die. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. The background is vellum over a mottled light green cardstock and then embossed with a Cuttlebug folder, I believe.

The dies for these ornaments are from Spellbinders. I used one to cut the bottom of the cardfront, too, so the bottom of the card that you see is actually on the inside.

The texture on this card is the wax paper that was left over from the pieces that I used as a resist on my as-yet-unused card panels.

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Glittery Christmas Greetings

Also included in Gina K's 12 Days of Christmas box were three small bottles of glitter - gold, silver and clear. I used a brass stencil and some double-sided sticky paper to add gold glitter through the stencil and then removed the stencil and added the clear glitter. I matted with gold mirror cardstock. I had already used a die to embossed the rectangle on the panel. The sentiment is from Gina K.

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Christmas Tree in Red

Well, MAYBE this one will be my last Christmas card for a while! (That makes 21 for next year.)This is the last of the pieces on my table. I can't figure out why I had so many! This one is a bookbinder style card. The red panel was embossed with a Sizzix folder. The sentiment is from Gina K. The die is from Taylored Expressions.

Today starts Gina K's 12 Days of Christmas. I bought the box and I'm looking forward to opening one package every day until December 23rd and seeing what's in there and maybe using each item on the day it's opened.

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Even More Simple Cards

More pieces on my table. The sentiments are all from Papertrey Ink. The dies are all from Taylored Expressions.

I have five of this design, in whites and silvers and light blues.

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Another Simple Tree Card

The tree was on my table, as was the die-cut rectangle. I put them together after matting the rectangle. :-)

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Christmas in Green

I had these patterned paper pieces on my desk, so I used them for another card for next year. I matted with a green foil cardstock, which I also used for die-cutting the sentiment. I also added three scored lines on the sentiment piece.

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More Christmas Trees

I made two of these cards for next year. The patterned panel was made with a Lawn Fawn stencil. I matted this layer with green and gold. I put gold under the die-cut tree and popped it up on foam squares. The sentiment is from Hero Arts.

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Christmas in Green and Gold

Two more Christmas cards - for next year. I just can't stop! Not much to them, but I think they are very pretty. I matted the layers with gold. The trees are die-cut and layered over the same gold foil and popped up on foam squares.

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Sending Joy

Two more Christmas cards for next year.  I saw this layout on Wanda's blog and I thought it was so pretty I had to make a couple, even though I didn't have time. They were quick, though!

The tree die is from Taylored Expressions. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. I made one with a white base and tree and one with an ivory base and tree. I sponged a little bit of green on the ivory tree. I also embossed the first sentiment with a bit of sparkly embossing powder.

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Have a Mice Christmas

I finally had a little time to do some creating, and this is what I came up with. I dug through my box of items to use and pulled out this stencil set and stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn - from the class I took over a year ago. The mice images were already stamped, colored and cut out. I made a frame for them to land on - they are popped up with foam squares. The background was stenciled.

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Warm Christmas Wishes

Another Christmas card using the holly corner punch - this time in the corners. :-) The sentiment again is from Lawn Fawn and this time I added a green metallic sticker at the top of the sentiment panel. The red background was embossed with a Sizzix folder and I added Nuvo drops for the berries.

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Holly For Christmas

Well, I finally have a couple cards to share with you. I think three days worth and then I'm done for a while again. The good news is, though, that the Christmas cards are all complete and the envelopes are all addressed and stamped. We still have to do the letter, though. AND I still have to figure out which card to send to which person. That is almost the hardest thing! LOL! 

I used a corner punch to make the border along the border of these cards. I added Nuvo drops for the berries. The sentiments are from Lawn Fawn. I also added thin, red, metallic stickers above the punching.

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Season's Greetings

Another Christmas card - only because this "Joy" ornament was on my table. It's mounted on foam squares. I used a piece of patterned Christmas paper down the middle, with thin metallic strips on each side, and one more metallic strip for the ornament string.

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Red and White Christmas - and Done???

These cards were inspired by Liz - from this post. I had made a note of this post and finally made them. I added lots of sequins to this first one.

I added scored lines with my Scor-Pal on this one and then some thin metallic sticker strips in between them.

I just counted up my Christmas cards. I have 81. I think that should be enough! Now I just have to add the sentiments to the insides.

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Turquoise-y Christmas

My brother and sister-in-law were in town for a few days and stayed with us. I was showing my sister-in-law a few things in my stamping room. Of course, I had to make them into cards! This first one was done with a Darice folder and also a Cuttlebug folder. The sentiment is from Gina K and is foiled. I added a little Star Dust Stickles to the centers of the snowflakes.

This one uses the same Darice folder. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. I added a couple flat sequins.

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