Christmas Cards 2011

Having a good time lately making Christmas cards. Can't claim the majority of these as my own designs - have been getting "inspiration" from other sites. I've been on a mission to use up old designer paper. Have done pretty good on that so far. Wish I could remember how to have the narrative appear next to the photos. Just don't have enough time to figure it out now. A technical challenge for another day! The card with the little girl with flowers isn't for Christmas, obviously.

Christmas Card 2010

Here it is! Our family Christmas card for 2010.

A bit simpler than past years but after die cutting and assembling 70 santa heads last year, I thought I'd be smart for a change.


The base is SU paper(red riding hood). The prints are pre-glittered, coordinating papers from Imaginisce that I bought at the end of last holiday season. I knew I wanted to make this tri-fold style of card so these papers worked perfectly. Cutting the pieces with a big paper cutter made it go fast. The snowflake is a SU punch using blue paper. The snowflake and the blue strip above the saying are both flocked, with MS flock. Rather than applying glue to each one, I sprayed a few at a time with spray adhesive, dipped them in the flock, put them in a folded paper (like an embossing folder) and ran them through the Cuttlebug to make sure the flock adhered well. I assembled the cards, added a crystal to the center of the snowflake, and stamped the saying on the last side.


It feels so good to have them done early! Now if I can just get them addressed, stamped and in the mail!

 

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - "Let It Snow"

This is my first post - ever! I was bound and determined to get something posted so I bought this cute Penny Black cling stamp to enter this challenge. It was a bigger challenge than I expected. I stamped the image using a black Momento Ink pad. Next I colored it using Copic Sketch markers. Personally, coloring is not my favorite thing to do but the Copic markers are nice. I need to work on technique a bit though. I cut a frame face by welding some rectangles using Cricut Design Studio. Then removed the inner rectangle to cut a back to the frame. The front looked a blah so I dry embossed it using a Cuttlebug falling snow folder. I sandwiched the image between the frame front and back....of course forgetting to put the ribbon on first! Dental floss to the rescue! I added the ribbon which reminded me of snow drifts. The snow flakes were made using punches and I glittered them up. The snow flakes were strategically popped and placed to cover up coloring mistakes. Using a easel-type card base, I can stand it up for show. I heat embossed "Merry Christmas" using a stamp from a Hero Arts holiday sayings cling set and fine silver embossing powder. A few more snow flakes and it was ready for display.

I normally would sit here and point out all the flaws. But I'm trying to control that bad habit of perfectionism. So tonight, I'm going to take pride in finishing, posting, and entering my first challenge. Yippie!