More Christmas Cards

I am slowing down, I need to do at least 11 more cards, yikes! Running out of time. These are all I did this week. CASEs of other cards with my adjustments. If you want any info on the paper or stamps just leave a comment!

Christmas Cards 4

These are sort of CASE'd, I was inspired by some cards and made similar layouts. The fox is such a cutie! It is by Stacey Yacula who does some stamps for MFT but this wasn't one of theirs. Pine cone set again, love it! and the Elfie's from MFT - I need to make more of those, fun!

Christmas Cards 3

The first card is for the ATC Swap Hostess. It is the same Graphics 45 Paper pack as the others. The next two are CASEs, the tag is a shaker tag. It's real sparkly in person! The card is from the pine cone set by The Stamps of Life. It is the best pine cone and branch set!

December Graphic 45 ATC Swap

This is for the December Graphic 45 ATC Swap. The 6 together are the ATC's, the top three are all shakers! I made 2 for each person and I will receive 2 each from 3 people, not necessarily the ones I am sending to. I decided to make three Christmas cards as well for them. All the same Christmas paper pack by Graphic 45 called Christmas Magic.

Snowy Fox

Love this paper collection. This is no stamping and coloring, feeling like I am cheating! I haven't decided what sentiment to put inside yet. Anyway love this so much!

Christmas Cards 2

Still working on random Christmas cards! I have quite a few to go, Ive only made 14 so far. The first card I bought the Penny Black Stamp called Winter Tide after watching their video on how to stamp the tree. It was so amazing and I was so impressed I purchased all the ink for it (it was archival ink which I never use in colors). I have made two images with it now, it is very frustrating and it doesn't look near as good as hers! (of course). I ended up using Wink of Stella all over the main tree so the second picture is trying to show the beautiful sparkle. I embossed the greeting in gold. Then there is the MFT Selfie set, so much fun! The last is that same snow globe but I cut our the scene and put in my own. Was easy and I love that shiny blue card stock! The last one is Snowy once again. I used chunky glitter on the red in his hat - he is so adorable! Last is MFT Yeti and a Christmas die set on an embossed snowflake background.

Christmas Cards 1

Getting started on my Christmas cards. These are a few, I will post more as I get them photographed and uploaded. The snowman is Snowy from Penny Black, old stamp but still adorable! The snow globe is just a cheap one from amazon - the dies in the first one are a Hero Arts stamp and die set. The Yeti is from My Favorite Things and its a shaker.

ATC Swap

I haven’t done an ATC swap in over 10 years! I joined yet another group on Facebook and they announced a swap. No theme this month, just have to use the paper - Graphic 45. So here are the ATCs I made.

UK Paper company

A little background story. I am following a lot of stamp and paper craft companies on Facebook and enjoy all of the cards and projects that are posted. Facebook recommends pages periodically to like or join. So this one page came up, paper crafting and I joined it. So at first when I saw all these cards and papers, stamps etc. that I had never seen before and I wanted to order some. Then I discovered it was a UK company - they sell to the US but it has the issues of international sales etc. I ordered two cute paper packs. Also reading the posts about where to buy this or that I quickly realized I can't recommend Michaels or other physical stores because they are in the US! It is so interesting to see how paper crafters in other countries buy, talk about, post etc. this wonderful craft! I love how global we are becoming. These two cards are from the paper pack I bought called The Paper Boutique. They are pictures, I didn't stamp and color - such a different way to make a card but they are so adorable! I die cut and glued and made a sentiment and done. Fun and quick. There are several more little animals in the collection I will be sure to use later. Anyway the place I purchased them from is called craftstash.us - its still international but their US site.

Lantern Card

This is a time consuming card to make! However it is fun! I like to do challenging cards. It really wasn't hard, just cutting 40 little squares and 20 little circles etc. It is a great card. The directions are here: https://stampingbella.com/blog/thursday-with-sandiebella-create-a-little-bits-lantern-card/ Try it!

My second most favorite card style to make

This is the fun fold card. I have been making it for years, for some reason it just suits me! I think its being able to use a couple of different matching pattern papers in one card. I made two cards this week of this kind, one for my mom whose kitty passed away. She was 14 years old and my mom is very saddened. The other was just to use that pretty sunflower stamp (although not fond of fussy cutting them!) Just a nice fall card.

Bird Birthday

This style card is all over Pinterest. I’ve made it pretty much identical but I added paper on the inside as well. It is the Stampin Up bird suite paper and stamps. Just a nice birthday card for a friend!I water colored the birds to look just like the paper.