Heat Embossed Santa Card

The Santa stamp is by Inkadinkaso. Then I ink the background with distress ink. It was so boring so I cat it up after I added washi tape cut with decorative scissors. The sentiment is a rub on by Making Memories. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge-stamp it

Iris Fold Christmas Tree shaped card

I cut out a bunch of Christmas trees with my Cricut. I used scraps of thin patterned paper to create an iris fold inside the opening. I inked the edges with distress ink. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon Says Stamp Monday shaped challenge 

Easel Christmas card

 I used a stencil by Hero Arts and Distress Ink. The big puffy stickers and stocking ephemera are from Spellbinders. 

Entering the following challenges:

Make My Monday challenge- Xmas in July 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge-Make your pan background. 

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge-Text

Christmas card throwdown-Christmas technique this month is stencils

Christmas cards all year round challenge-M for merry. 

Holly and Ivy Christmas cards-anything goes Christmas 

Merry little Christmas card challenge- anything goes Christmas. 

Craft Roulette #304 Parameters:

Project: Drop down card

Color: mahjong colors 

Element: go wild (there is a tree in one of the ornaments and trees grow in the wild)

Random: hand drawn border (around the bottom panel, I used a green Cricut marker to make dashed lines.)

Walrus card

The purple design in the background is the negative of a Stacey Park stencil by Sizzix. The blue sun shine in the center is a Hero Arts stencil. The purple ink is called Versa Magic and both of the blue inks are distress oxide.The walrus and ice are stamps by Lawn Fawn. I colored the images in with Copic markers. The sentiment stamp is by Stampendous. Thanks for looking.

Lawn Fawn Christmas in July challenge

Large Christmas tree with strips of paper card

I die cut a bunch of Christmas trees and then had the seniors at church decorate them from behind

I did things a little bit different on this card then many of the others. I added the green background frame to set it apart from the blue patterned paper. I adhered the paper strips to the back and then ran that whole thing into an embossing folder with ornaments on it. After embossing, I inked the inside areas of the tree with distress oxides. The star is an iron on patch that can use an iron on to adhered it to anything. 

Monday Simon Says Stamp- add some green

Snowflake frame card

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  The snowflake frame is by Memory Box. The patterned paper and label are so old that I don’t remember. I did apply distress Stickles on the leaves but you it’s hard to tell in the pictures. Distress Stickles are not sparkly.

Simon Says Stamp weather challenge

Christmas Zoy Fold card

The patterned paper for the circle is by Stampin Up. The shiny red paper on the front is by Hunky Dory. The kit paper pad with all of the foil embellishments is by Studio Light. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon Says Stamp weather challenge (snowy scene in the above photo)

I made this card for Craft Roulette #277 but I haven’t had a chance to post it yet. I’m not sure if that counts for the  challenges I’m entering. The parameters are PROJECT: Zoy-fold COLORS: Sports team (Redwings hockey ) ELEMENT: Craft Roulette (I made this at Paperganza) RANDOM: Up-to-date (on my Christmas cards)

I saved a Copic Background with Snowflakes

My background is the result of checking my blue Copic markers. I decided there was no reason not to use it and heat embossed a snowflake background stamp with silver powder. I colored in a few of the snowflakes to give them more recognition. The sentiment is a die by Spellbinders. Thanks for looking. HAGD!

Simon Says Stamp-weather challenge

Bird Gazing Christmas Cards

I made this card using a polka dot patterned paper by American Crafts. All of the other components are from a pad of Christmas pieces by Studio Light that features foil elements.

The journal box is by Teresa Collins, the glitter cardstock is by Recollections, the red ribbon at the top is unknown, and the rest is by Studio Light.

Thanks for looking.

Simon says Stamp-Foil

Cloud Shaker dome cards

Craft Roulette #301Parameters:

Project: appreciation card (everyone appreciates a Christmas card)

Colors: Apple farm (Green trees, red sequins, blue skies)

Element: silhouette ( Santa sleigh)

Random: An old product (everything in the Lawn Fawn stamp set and the cloud shaker dome)

The cloud domes are by Jillibean Soup. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Pink and Green Christmas card

The background paper and pink patterned paper is by Paper Favourites. The green sparkle paper is by Sizzix. The banner and flower die cuts are from a Spellbinders embellishment pack that I got from the “Trash to Treasure” table. The wood snowflake is by Maya Road. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Challenge:

Simon Says Stamp-Christmas/holiday. 

Be Merry Zoe Christmas card

I made this card for Craft Roulette #279

The parameters are PROJECT; kid’s cards . COLORS: theater  ELEMENT: picture RANDOM: half and half 

The patterned papers are by Ciao Bella's Ziggy and Zoe. Frame stamp by Newton’s Nook. Sentiment die is unknown but I covered it with Stickles.

Challenges: Simon says Stamp-Christmas 

Dangerous Glitter Christmas Card

The title is compelling. The card base was made with a piece of glitter paper. It was an 8x8 piece of paper that I cut the top down to 6”. I scored it at 4” and used a bone folder to burnish the edge. Then I went over it with my hand and the glitter literally cut my hand. The JOY die is by Spellbinders. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Peace, Love and Joy Big card

This card is from Craft Roulette #244.

 The parameters were:

Project-Joy fold

Color-Bold/cold

Element-family 

Random-ribbon 

The gold paper, letter dies and the white die cut layered at the bottom of the cluster are from Sizzix. The embossing folder is by Gina Marie. The die cut that the ampersand sign is on is by Creative Expression. There’s Rick Rack on the left side of the card on top of a snowflake background stamp that I heat embossed in green embossing powder.  The joy tags on the right are sewn up there with not twine, but like hemp ribbon. 

It’s a very heavy card. I would probably have to add extra postage. Thanks for looking.

Cricut Drawn Christmas Tree Upcycled Card

 

Every month a friend and I make Christmas cards. We call it 5on5: the goal is to make 5 Christmas cards on the fifth of every month at 5:00 PM. Each month we have a theme and  February’s theme was to reuse, recycle, or repurpose. Which brings me to this card that 

I received this 3 years ago. It had a noticeable smudge of green ink in the upper left corner. It 

took this long to figure out what I could do to the Cricut pen on the 

I tried a white gel pen, which made the green ink smear more. To make it not look as though I’m covering up a mistake, I would have to go around each area just like it smear the green and cover it with a white gel pen. 

This is what I have to say about that white gel pen wasn’t very consistent so I bought some off of Amazon that are amazing.

Anyway, the flaw needed to be covered up with something solid. I pulled out these not rhinestones or gems or enamel dots. Nope, none of those. They are a product by Imaginisce. You heat set them to your project with this tiny little thing that applies heat. They match the green marker used on the tree. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Cricut border with added Christmas trees card

This border is a Cricut cut with a rhinestone in the center. Then I added Christmas tree die cuts. Some of them have been inked with distress ink. Some of them are also upcycled wallpaper samples. I did add dimensional adhesive behind two of them. Then I cut brown scraps to make the tree trunks. Thanks for looking. 

Manly Monday Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Green with Stars Card

Merry Christmas. This is a fatter slimline card with Basic Grey patterned paper and DCWV green opulent cardstock. I stamped this old sentiment stamp from my stash onto a Dreamweaver Stencils die cut. The jute is by Tim Holtz. The stars are the bits that fell out of a Marvy corner punch. 

Thanks for looking.

Cricut Snow Globe Christmas Card

The snow globe is a Cricut draw and cut out of textured cardstock. I colored it in with colored pencils. The background stamp is by Stampin Up. The Merry Christmas is a rub-on. The smallest snowflakes are sequins by American Crafts. I added Stickles to the star and snowflake punch. Thanks for looking.

Mini Happy Holidays Card for Mom

This card base is an upcycled thank you card from my Mom’s funeral memorial. It sounds morbid but my Mom would have liked that I was using them. The size is smaller 3.5 x 5 and it has dry embossing around the edges that I lightly inked with distress ink. To explain this card I’m going to start with closest layer to the card, which is a Creative Memories journal card. On top of that is blue cardstock followed by a card from a Craft Smith paper pad. I didn’t like the sentiment so I covered it up with a stamped sentiment. I’m happy with how it turned out. I have a few cards using similar products that I have to watermark. Thanks so much for taking a look at my blog.

Manly Monday Curtains are open for the Nutcracker

The card is for Craft Roulette challenge. 

Parameters: 

Split down the center-curtains made by me. 

Jolly colors-jolly red with blue and green Christmas colors.

 Fruit-nuts are a fruit (nutcracker Cricut draw and cut. Colored with Copic markers)

A Heart-on his hat-die cut by Scrapbooking Made Simple. Thanks for looking.