Stampin Up, Playing with Christmas goodies

You can't go wrong with a Christmas card made using the fabulous Woodland Embossing folder.
This was one of my class cards this week. They had a great time doing it.

To get this effect you first use your brayer to roll on the background color on the side of the folder with the Sizzix name, make sure the fold is toward you, then layer on the trees from Wonderland at the bottom where the fold is, carefully lay down your cardstock and run through the Big shot.

It was a little plain for me, so I stamped on some ornaments from Among the Branches. BTW, that is the stamp set bundled with the Woodland embossing folder.

Here are a couple or so more examples, after I got started I couldn't stop playing.

Woodland Textured Impressions Embossing Folder - 139673

Price: $8.50

Among The Branches Photopolymer Stamp Set - 139823

Price: $17.00

Among The Branches Photopolymer Bundle - 140872

Price: $21.50

Wonderland Clear-Mount Stamp Set - 140365

Price: $17.00

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One more Christmas card

Here is another one my ladies did in class last time.

This was the alternate card I showed them. Here is the one they actually did.

On both I wet embossed the main graphic sentiment. I used SU gold paper on this one, it doesn't show well in photos, but is gorgeous in person.  I also used the new Stylish Stripes embossing folder.
The base card is Very Vanilla.

On the top one I used Cherry Cobbler and Very vanilla.  You don't have to do the wet emboss, but it really does add something special.

The stamp set is O Holy Night.  Wood 131832,  Clear 131835

I hope you enjoyed and these give you some ideas of your own. Thanks so much for stopping by.

Christmas cards for class

I know it can seem a little early for Christmas cards, but if you are a crafter you know it's really helpful to get an early start.  It takes some doing to decide just what you want to do and gather all the goodies to do it, then make your cards.

I had class last week, and we did one fall card and this Christmas card, I showed it two ways, I love them both, but we did up the one stamped in Cherry Cobbler.

This is a set of ornaments/dies from last years Holiday catalog, however they are still available on carry over.  The silver ribbon is in this years Holiday catalog and the frame cut out is Deco Framelits, new in this years main catalog. 
The sentiment is from Christmas Messages also in the Holiday Catalog.

Here I used the Glimmer paper (124005).  It was just too stark when I first did it and it just needed a bit of something. I found the perfect something. It's from the set Very Merry Tags in the holiday catalog and uses the Mosaic punch. I stuck a rhinestone for a bit of added bling.

I always have a lot of fun with these ladies, so with all the holidays coming up, I decided to make class a bit more special.  I baked a Pumpkin bundt cake, turned out so yummy!  Plus we had a snack mix and fall flowers and a cute little gifty.
I'll post more about all that later in the week.

I will have more on class as well as photos of our table and my cute little gifty with a link to the instructions to make it later in the week. For now, thanks so much for stopping by. 
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Fast and Fabulous 10 minute Christmas card

I know I said on Wed I'd post the FF 10 min cards, but it's Christmas and if you haven't gotten your cards done, it's time. I hope this will help you, these are very quick, easy and look so fabulous. I have done two of the same card, just changing out the colors.
One of the easiest ways to made a big difference in your cards is embossing folders. Takes no time at all to run a piece of CS through the folder and it can look so awesome.

Here I used Rose Red and Very Vanilla.
The folder used is Northern Flurry #120902 pg 189 in the main catty.
Image is from Embellished Events  #126497(clear)  pg 40
I love this stamp set as it gives you 6 different images for so many events, plus the sentiments, in this case the Merry Christmas, is separate from the image stamp so you can mix and match them.

Here I used Midnight Muse, and my Craft White ink. It's a favorite of mine, you can use it to wet emboss, or just stamp on dark CS with it. It will take just a bit longer to dry however. The ribbon here is Very Vanilla Seam Binding. One little tip using the seam binding. The cartridge glue doesn't stick to the ribbon very well, so I usually use the Glue stick.  You can pretty much do any color combo you like with this one.

Bye for now.