Christmas Card Workshop

I needed a few more Christmas cards, so I took some inspiration from Gina Brandstetter, and made a workshop using Pear and Partridge and the Festive Velvet Rub-ons. I made 1 card for each of the card patterns in Make It From Your Heart. Here they are in order:

Pattern 19:

Pattern 20:

Pattern 21:

Pattern 21:

Pattern 23:

Pattern 24:

Pattern 25:

Pattern 26:

Pattern 27:

Pattern 29:

 

Pattern 30:

 

Pattern 31:

 

The stamp sets I used were: Remarkable Wreath, Very Merry Christmas, Say It In Style, and To You and Yours. I left all the edges undistressed to save time, which gives it a clean, crisp feeling. I like it. But it's true, sponging would give it a nice dimensional effect.

 

I'm going to enter these cards into the Simon Says Merry Christmas Challenge.

 

Well, I'm leaving early for my vacation, so I won't be posting for a week or so. Thanks for stopping by!





Anniversary Card

This is the card I made for RetroSketches and Less is More.

Materials used:
Cardstock: White
Other: Kraft Borders, Spring Blossom Just Blooms Paper Flowers, Timeless Charms

Tags

These tags are completely cased from Kathleen Androlewicz. I just loved them, so I made them exactly the same. I'm entering these into Sentimental Sundays tag challenge.

Materials used:
Cardstock: Colonial White, Cranberry, Olive
Stamps: Very Merry Christmas
Ink: Olive, Cranberry
Other: Silver and Red Glitz Glitter Gels, Harvest Baker's Twine

Purple Christmas Card

Here is a card I made for Our Creative Corner (purple and silver), the Pink Elephant (gift tags), and the Sweet Stop Sketch.

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy
B&Ts: Hooligans
Stamps: Christmas Love
Ink: VersaMark, Gypsy
Other: Silver Embossing powder, sheer ribbon (not CTMH), Heirloom Assortment

Shabby Mojo

Here is a card I made for Shabby Tea Room and Mojo Monday:

The challenge at the Shabby Tea Room was to use pink, aqua, cream, and white, and glitter - inspired by the photo:

Materials used:
Cardstock: White, Baby Pink
Stamps: Roxie WOTG, A Holiday
Ink: Blush, Lagoon, Chocolate Distressing Ink
Other: Chocolate Ribbon, Silver Glitz Glitter Gel, doily (not CTMH)

Christmas Crackers

Here is a card I made for these 3 challenges:

Order of the Opus-Gluei - be inspired by a Christmas Carol
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Christmas Crackers
Dynamic Duos - Black and Gold with the dessert option of music

I used a fire cracker stamp with gold embossing powder for the cracker part, and I used "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" as my carol.

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Black
Stamps: American Celebration, Tiny Typewriter, Say it in Style, Card Word Chatter, Universal Backgrounds
Ink: VersaMark, Black
Other: Gold Embossing Powder, gold glitter glue (not CTMH)

Another Shabby Attempt

Here's a shabby chic card I made for the Shabby Tea Room. I used the Sweet Sunday Sketch. I actually cased this card by following the instructions I found here.

The Shabby Tea Room instructions were to use the colors in the photo and to add a bird. Here is the inspiration photo:

Materials used:

Cardstock: Colonial White

Patterned paper: Colorbok (not CTMH)

Stamps: Holiday Magic, Universal Backgrounds

Ink: Chocolate Distressing Ink

CTMH embellishments: Pink Ribbon collection, Pink Button Collection, Pink and Red Sparkles, Hemp, Wooden Shapes

Cricut cartridges: Art Philosophy and Artiste

Non CTMH embellishments: pink flower, pearls, doily, gold glitter glue, chunky glitter

Baby shower card

Here's a baby card I made for a friend who's having a girl. It is for these challenges:

CR84FN Color Challenge
Order of the Opus Gluei

Materials used:
Cardstock: Vanilla Cream, Grey Wool
Stamps: Life's a Jungle, New Arrival
Ink: Vineyard Berry
Other: Grey and Black Sparkles

Merry Christmas

Here is a Christmas card for these challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches
Color Throwdown

Materials used:
Cardstock: Colonial White, Lagoon, Avonlea Green, Ruby
Stamps: Snowflakes, Christmas Love
Ink: Ruby, Lagoon
Other: Gem from P&P WOTG

Holiday Wishes

This card has unusual colors, but I think I managed to tie them together. This is for 2 challenges:
ColourQ and FreshlyMadeSketches.

 

Materials used:
B&Ts: Hooligans
Cardstock: white (not CTMH)
Stamps: Holiday Wishes
Ink: Cranberry, Gypsy, Lagoon
Other: Cranberry grosgrain Ribbon, Honey Mini Medley Accents

Angels

Here's an interesting card I made. It's a little different style for me, but I love the outcome. I didn't have any angel stamps, so I found one on vintage printables dot com. The challenge at Our Creative Corner is ABC: Angels, Buttons, and Chipboard. I used a chipboard frame decorated with buttons. I used the sketch at the Sweet Stop. The colors are from the Color Throwdown. I'm also entering this into the challenge at Crazy4Challenges - put a bow on it.

Materials used:
B&Ts: Hooligans, Wonderland, Lucy
Cardstock: White Daisy, Avonlea Green
Image: from vintageprintables.com (not CTMH)
Other: Chipboard Frame, Green Button Assortment, Colonial White Waxy Flax, White Daisy grosgrain Ribbon

I love shimmer too

Here is a card for 3 challenges:
Dynamic Duos
Retro Sketches
Less is More - add glitz/glitter

I really like how this one turned out!

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Outdoor Denim
Stamps: Universal Backgrounds, A Very Merry Christmas
Ink: Outdoor Denim
Other: Blue Ribbon Collection, Silver Shimmer Trim, Bliss level 2 Assortment, Designer shimmer brads, silver Glitz Glitter Gel

Manger card for RIC

I was inspired by the Runway Inspired Challenge to make this card. I know you're probably thinking "how can this card be inspired by those dresses?" Well, let me tell you. At first, I was drawn to the cross on the back of the second dress, and I was thinking I'd just make a black sillhouette of a cross. But I really wanted it to be a Christmas card and I wanted Jesus to be prominent, so I made a black sillhouette of a manger scene - still Jesus. I really liked the splotches of red, yellow and blue on the dresses too, so I decided to tie those in with the yellow star and the blue and red words. So there you have it.

Here is the inspiration photo:


Materials used:
White Card
Stamps: Glory to God
Ink: Black, Holiday Red, Sunny Yellow, Moonstruck

Place Cards

I haven't posted in a few days. My Thanksgiving was so exhausting that I've been vegging for 3 days straight! I made some cards yesterday, but didn't feel blogging them. But I made these place cards on Thanksgiving day. Even though it made me run a little late, I'm so glad I made them. They added just the right touch, and it was less awkward than telling our guests where they needed to sit!

These are for the CASE study challenge:

Here is the CASE study card by Angeline Yong:


Materials used:
Cardstock: Colonial White
Stamps: Roxie WOTG, Classmate Alphabet
Inks: Chocolate, Barn Red, Autumn Terracotta

I love glitter

Here is another Christmas card. I've been making a lot lately. This one is for Merry Monday, Heart2Heart, and the Shabby Tea Room.

This card is so sparkly with glitter, but you can't tell in the photo. :( I wish I knew how to photograph so the glitter would show up more! The challenge at the Shabby Tea Room was a tic-tac-toe.

I did stitching, embossing and glitter and ribbon. Hmm... I think I didn't look closely enough before, because that does not make a row! I guess I could add some buttons or gems and it would work. I wonder if I'll be penalized if I don't. I guess I'll find out. Anyway, I thought the row was glitter, ribbon, and embossing. I wanted to do stitching, but I took my stitch stamp and embossed it around the edges with my Cranberry embossing powder. That way it would count as embossing, but still look like stitching. :) Here is the inspiration photo:

I saw that ice skate, and remembered a sticker I had from a couple years ago. I think it works perfectly.

Here is the Merry Monday sketch:


Heart2Heart has a Christmas theme this week.

Materials used:
B&Ts: Mistletoe
Cardstock: Cocoa
Stamps: You and Me
Ink: VersaMark
Stickease: Mistletoe
Other: Red Ribbon Collection, Cranberry Embossing Powder, Prisma Glitter

Just Because

Here is a card for 3 challenges:

Sweet Sunday Sketch
Cr84Fn Color Challenge
Sentimental Sundays - Get Well Wishes

 

Materials used:
B&Ts: La Belle Vie
Cardstock: Champagne
Stamps: Avonlea Card WOTG, You and Me
Ink: Smokey Plum VersaMark
Other: Gold Embossing Powder, Shimmer Brads

Black Tie

I made a Christmas card for some challenges, one new one called Black Tie Fridays. I think the gist of it is that you have to use black in your project. Their challenge this week is to make something black and white and use a cut-out. I also took inspiration from 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - to use a Scripture verse on your card, and Order of the Opus Gluei - to make something 3-D. I finally had a reason to break out my pop up cards and cut-out words on my new Cricut Artiste cartridge! I gotta tell you, you can make some fabulous things with that cartridge!

Here is the inside:

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Black
Stamps: Glory to God!, Chocolate Alphabet - Small
Ink: Cranberry, White Daisy
Other: Cranberry Grosgrain Ribbon, Red Glitz Glitter Gel, Clear Detail Embossing Powder, Cricut Artiste Cartridge