Monday, November 3, 2014

10 Days of Christmas 2014, Day 7, Snowflakes


Welcome again to my 10 Days of Christmas 2014. We are on day 7 now. You can scroll down to see the previous days.

I love snowflakes, and white on Crumb Cake is so classic and pretty.  I used Rich Razzleberry for my base card. I love using unusual colors for my christmas cards.

I hope you get some ideas from these.  This is a pretty quick and simple card.




Sunday, November 2, 2014

10 Days of Christmas 2014, Day 6, Stars


Welcome again, today we are doing Day 6 of my 10 days of Christmas.   We have stars today.  This Bright and Beautiful set is gorgeous and the sizes match the Star Framelit set.

I used Whisper White and Pear Pizzaz for this card.

I hope this will help you with your own Christmas cards this year.


Saturday, November 1, 2014

10 Days of Christmas 2014, Day 5 JOY

Welcome to day 5 of my 10 Days of Christmas.   I have to say, I LOVE this card!  The Blackberry Bliss is my favorite of the new colors this year, and here I combined it with gold and silver embossing on the wreath.  I know it's hard to see it very well, but it is so gorgeous in person.  The JOY on here is in the framelit set that matches the stamp set.  There is also a Noel.
I used rhinestones, one on each of the flowers. So simple, but so beautiful.


Friday, October 31, 2014

10 Days of Christmas, 2014, Day 4


Welcome to day 4 of my 10 Days of Christmas.   Today I used Ornamental Pine. Such a sweet, calm stamp set.  I choose to emboss the pine with a Versamark pad and White embossing powder. I love the snow effect a simple grunge stamp gives to this, and I love the Night of Navy CS that looks like night time.  I embossed the ornament in gold and tied it up with linen thread.

I think the stars really add to the night time effect.

I hope you got some ideas for your cards.


Thursday, October 30, 2014

10 Days of Christmas Day 3, Glitter





Welcome to day 3 of my 10 days of Christmas.  I'm making this an annual thing, 2 in a row. LOL.
Glimmer paper is the best way to do glitter, no mess. Just cut and glue down like any other paper. I used  Silver and Red Glimmer paper on this.
My base card is 4 1/4" x 5 1/2", so I cut the white layer at 4 x 5 1/4.  Each strip is just a 1" piece, and I think I went up 3 1/2", but you can make the length what you want depending on what you put at the top.



I love, love, love this soft satin ribbon, besides the white it comes in gold and silver. So perfect for this time of year.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Stampin Up, 10 Days of Christmas 2014, #2



Aren't these stars elegant?  I love them, can't use them enough and they match the size of the Star Framelits, but here I just stamped with Versamark and embossed in gold.    I just think it's such a simple and elegant card.  I started my card base with a 5 1/4" x 10 1/2" pieced of CS in Cherry Cobbler.   Use your envelop punch board to make a matching envelop for it.


Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Stampin Up, 10 Days of Christmas for 2014


I love the chalkboard technique! It sure made this a fun card and so easy.   Just use black CS and emboss using white embossing powder. I sponged just a tiny bit of white from my white craft pad on it for that chalkboard look.

I cut a second Deco label the same size as the red, out of silver glimmer paper, cut across it bringing the top and bottom out a bit for framing.  Just gave it that pretty extra touch.

Hope this helps with your Christmas cards.


Friday, October 24, 2014

Stampin Up, Pals Paper Arts challenge 225



Interesting sketch challenge for this week from the PPA 225.  And more gorgeous cards if you go look, lots of great ideas.

I have a bit of a problem with angles like this, I think it is the pretty much non functioning of a math brain in my head, but here it is. The silver foil is a bit hard to photograph, it looks almost black, but it's gorgeous in person.

The Festival of Trees set is just so usable!  I find myself grabbing it over and over with different ideas for it.  It's bundle priced so check it out. You can just punch out trees from DSP, or stamp and punch or just stamp or both.

Colors today are Silver, Whisper White, Marina Mist, and the Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive Blendies for the tree.