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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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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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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Mass Production #2

I made twelve of this card, and my Christmas cards for the year are complete.

The image is from an old rubber stamp set from Recollections. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. They are both embossed with gold embossing powder. The image panel is mounted on foam squares.

It feels great to have the cards done. I have the labels ready to print, also, but want to make sure there are no changes in the next month and a half.

I am busy going through stuff in the cedar chest and some old photos of ours. We are planning a 50th anniversary party for us (well, mostly our kids are doing the planning) and it's only three and a half weeks away. That time will go so fast! Then I have a whole list of things to get done that are not short projects. I'm still hoping to get some more cards done from my card class, but they will wait.

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Mass Production #1

Well, I have my Christmas cards for this year finished - inside and out!! Yippee! I was getting a bit stressed and really wanted them done, so I made twenty of this card. I then did twelve of another that I will share tomorrow. That, along with the ones that were finished, makes 79. Whew.

Not much explanation needed. The ornament stamp is from Hampton Art. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. I cut the rectangles out with dies and the panel is mounted on foam squares.

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SCT Classes - Lawn Fawn

More SCT class cards - these are from Lawn Fawn.

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More Upcycled Christmas

We got a Christmas thank you card from friends, and I made these three cards using the card and the envelope liner. I used dies on this first card - to cut the image out and to emboss the frame on the under panel. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn.

I added some envelope liner under the main image panel.

More envelope liner on this one. The image is from Stampin' Up! and is embossed with gold. I added a gold strip across the bottom of the striped panel. The sentiment is again from Lawn Fawn. I'm guessing this will be the last cards of the year!

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Red-Foiled Christmas

This first card measures 5 x 6 1/2 inches. I used my Glimmer Hot foil system with red specialty foil. I simply added the sentiment to complete it.

These next two cards were made with the negative foil. The sentiments are from Lawn Fawn.

I used a Sizzix embossing folder for the background on this third card, and silver matting.

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Christmas Wishes

A couple more Christmas cards. I'm getting close to having enough made for this year. What is really behind is my calendar. I only have three months done. I feel I'm running out of time for them! These cards are pretty simple and self-explanatory, I think. The thin striped strips were in my "strips jar."

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Foiled Christmas

Two more cards I made using pieces done with my Glimmer Hot Foil system. This first one is 7 x 3 3/4 inches. I matted with red. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn.

This one was done with the negative foil and matted with dark blue. This sentiment is also from Lawn Fawn and is mounted on foam squares.

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Pinkish Poinsettia

The stenciled poinsettia is from Gina K. I used Versamark on the center dots and then used gold embossing powder. The sentiment is embossed in gold, also, and is from Lawn Fawn.

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Oops - Four More Christmas Cards - and Two "Bonus" Cards!

I really thought it would be awhile before I posted any more Christmas cards - but here I am, with four more. After my friend, Vicki, did this blog post, it just called to me - as did my Christmas papers. I die-cut the white circles with Penny Black dies (thanks, Darnell!) and the matting circles with Nestabilities. The sentiment panels are popped up on foam squares. 

And here are the two "bonus" cards I promised you. I post nearly every card that I make, so I felt I should share these, also, even though they are nearly identical to yesterday's card and didn't deserve their own post. The main pieces were already done and I got them with the die from Darnell. I ink-blended color on a circle to place them on. I added the sentiment across the middle. I used a die plate to make the background.

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Christmas-y Trees

My friend, Vicki, made a card that I thought was very pretty, and I made these cards using her technique. You can find her card on her January 11 and 12 posts. I made the following card first and thought it looked plain - since I forgot to emboss it. But then, I kind of liked the plain one better! But, maybe I'll make another and only emboss the top part - that would look best, I think. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn.

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Sparkly Warm Wishes

No big surprise - I have more Christmas cards to share over the next few days. You can not tell in the photo, but this is a VERY sparkly card. I used white glitter cardstock to emboss the image. I also used a brush to add ink very lightly over the embossing, but you really can't see that, either. Oh well. I matted with shimmery paper and stamped the sentiment in a matching color. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. 

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Sparkly Purple Birthday Wishes

Using up another die-cut that I received from a friend - this time the lattice frame. (And actually, I have this same die.) I mounted it on a piece of purple glitter paper. I cut a white oval the same shape as the center of the die-cut and embossed it with a Darice embossing folder. I die-cut the "birthday" (which is from My Favorite Things) from the same glitter cardstock and layered it with white die-cuts. The "WISHES" is from a Lawn Fawn sentiment. The bottom layer is an ancient piece of Stampin' Up! patterned paper.

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More Christmas

Well, I have three more Christmas cards to share with you today! Not sure what's up with that. :) Actually, I love making Christmas cards, and this year I know that I can make extras and donate them to the thrift store that a friend works at!

So, after I made yesterday's card, I put the snowflake Impressability away. But, I decided that I would use it again, so I got it out and I made these cards. For this first one, I inked up the Impressability with soft silver ink, then embossed. I matted with shimmery silver cardstock. I added a strip of vellum towards the bottom. Then I added a die-cut sentiment, which I cut from silver glitter cardstock, and also three times from white, and layered them together.

For this second one, I used it like a stencil and used blue ink. I matted with blue. I stamped the sentiment, from Lawn Fawn, with black ink on vellum and embossed with black embossing powder.

This third card is a combination of the first two - same technique as the first card and same sentiment as the second one.

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Last (again!) Christmas Cards

Here, once again :) is my last Christmas card for this year. I made two of these. The ornament, hanger and bow are all die-cut. The ornament is three layers and the bow is two layers. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn and is embossed with gold powder. The ornament is layered on top of the white layer, and the hanger/string is die-cut into the white layer and backed with silver.

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