Christmas Cards- Card number five!

Last is definitely my favorite this year! I really felt like I splurged with PTI Botanical Blocks III stamp set and the dies for the blocks. But after seeing Nicole Heady's example, I knew what I wanted to do...

Here's number 5...

This is definitely my favorite card of all! The red card base has the sentiment embossed in silver. The white larger die is embossed in silver along the edges and attached to the card with scor-tape to hold it in place. Then the block is fussy cut and backed with fun foam to add a bit of dimension to the design.

Copic markers were used to color and that was the largest amount of time involved with making this card. I embossed the inside greeting "May Joy and Peace be yours this holiday season."

And that is a wrap for this holiday season... and as usual I will promise myself not to wait until the last minute to finish cards next year, but I probably will! I hope I enjoy it next year as much as I did this year...

Christmas Cards- Card Number Four

So by this time, I still didn't have the card I wanted for the grand kids! I always like them to be different and interactive if I can find a way...

So PTI Secret Agent stamp set was the perfect solution! I spy is a favorite game with all of them...

Here's the card...

Tricky, right? Each window is showing a picture of something stamped on the card base in a light brown and then scrambled with red ink. You must look with the red lens to "unscramble" the code! Isn't that lens the cutest ever???

The wreath on the front was an added extra when I had an ink mistake and needed to cover it up! I do think it looks a lot better with it!

Here's what the inside card base looks like... I also included an answer sheet :) taped on the back of the card!

The response from the kids so far has been so fun! The pictures are Mary and Baby Jesus, Santa, and a Christmas tree...

Love this set! Will definitely use it for birthdays coming up...

Christmas Cards- Card Number Three

By now I have made about 30 cards, and I feel like I am on a roll! Now for the Wreath...

I ordered PTI Tropical Teal paper ages ago. I never really thought of it as a green for holiday cards until I saw it used on Papertrey Ink's website ...

Here's card three....

Using PTI Deck The Halls stamp and die set, this card worked up very quickly! Using Versamark ink, I stamped the wreath and the greeting and then gold embossed both. The die cut ribbon and hanger are from red glitter and really set off the colors. 

The added embellishments on the wreath are red and silver stickles and I put them in the place of the berries stamp. 

The sentiment inside is in silver, because i think it is a bit easier to read. I really fell in love with the silver embossing powder!

This was an easy card to mass produce, and being one layer was also easy to mail. I was very pleased with the final result on this one!

Christmas Cards- Number Two

After the PTI Winter Woods Stamp Set arrived, I couldn't wait to get my hands on the cardinals! They were out of the dies, so I had to fussy cut the birds, but I just love the result.

Here's card two...

First I stamped two large evergreen trees in avocado ink and spritz the stamp to look like watercolor on a Kraft base. With white ink, I stamped a few snowflakes and added a snow mound die cut from white glitter paper, glued with a tape runner. 

PTI Winter Woods cover plate cut out of watercolor paper, with the trees water colored with a soft grey and then stamped black for the birch bark. It is attached to the card with foam strips to give an added dimension to the card. The cardinal is attached with scor-tape. The final touch is the gold star sequin added with glossy accents.

Then I felt the male cardinal needed his mate, who is always close by when they visit our bird feeder. I love how she came out! Then I couldn't decide if I liked her in the higher or the lower branch...

What I fun card to make! On the inside the greeting says... "Peace and Joy to your family this Holiday Season!"

I know I will be using this set a lot! 

Christmas Cards!!! Card One...

This was the best year of making Christmas cards! Not quite sure why I enjoyed it so much, but I really did.  I signed up for the Holiday Online Card Class, but just had a difficult time getting into the swing of it for some reason. Time was creeping up and I thought I was going to have to buy cards!!! No problem with the class, it was really just me!

But after trying a card that Julie Ebersole did, it got my mojo started! Then receiving my  PTI order - things were really getting formulated in my mind!

Here's the first from Julie's card ...

It is a one layer card after masking the edges, stamped with PTI Evergreens Stamp Set in greens, and Santa in the sleigh in red, greeting in black- and then using embossing paste over the small dot stencil to make snowflakes. I tried four rows of trees on this soft grey cardstock...

then three rows on this white cardstock... with sponging a little green for the ground- especially this year!

 Here's the inside of the card...

Mine does sure imitate Julie's example, but I did not use the outline on the edges. Just can't make those lines straight!!! It was a good beginning... I do think it looks a lot like a card that I did last year.

December birthdays

It's hard to believe but "Sweet Baby Rae" will be one on Wednesday, December 16th! She is just such a delight that this year has just flown by! Here she is at Halloween- trick or treating as a cowgirl with her sisters...

My card for her got me started in the spirit for cardmaking! I've got to get going on those Christmas cards! Here's her card...

It's a shaker card ... Stephanie called today to tell me how much Lyla (her 4 year old sister)  enjoyed shaking the card- Just made my heart smile! The top layer is a partially die cut scallop with a corragated pattern paper bottom. It has a plastic sheet between with the fun foam layer also cut with a scallop die to fit the beads to shake. It all sits on a white base. The inside greeting says... "Enjoy your day!" mainly because I know Reagan enjoys every day!

We're not going to see her for her birthday :( but will see her this weekend hopefully to give her a huge birthday present and a kiss with it! Aren't grand childen a blessing??