Natural Brown Christmas Cards

Wrote this post at the airport two days ago! Forgot to hit "publish"...used that natural-feel brown paper with white or red! I love the look of the natural brown color with the white accenting it. Hope you've had lovely holidays...

Pointsettia Cards

Cut of the day was...poinsettias! 3 pieces, largest being 3 inches, then stepping down a little bit from there. Getting close to Christmas... Have you finished shopping? I haven't, yikes! Not even close...i'll just avoid it and stay in my craft room....

Holiday Joy

Here are three quick cards... EnJOY (ha ha)


The lettering on the first one is from the cricut Fontopia cartridge...Although I only used two of the layers.

This one is hard to see...took the picture at night...It is gold and white, exactly the same lettering as the one above. The snowflakes are from a variety of winter stamp packs, and embossed with gold powder. The rectangle is cuttlebug-embossed. Looks much prettier in person! I will try to switch out the picture later...in all my spare time....

 

This lettering is from the craft room basics lettering, and I used Vintage Velvet distress ink around the edges.

'Tis The Season

Some more holiday cards...I am on a roll! I am excited about my next post too :) Stay tuned!

More Holiday Cards, and tag testers

I get so involved in my cricut cutting sometimes that I forget about a lot of the other great tools I have. Before I had a cricut, I did so much ink work! Alcohol inks, distress inks, etc. I have tried a few things out with a holiday theme, and attempted to put a few together.

This green and white card with twine is one of my favorites so far this year. The tag was a plain manilla tag, and then I used the Bundled Sage and Peeled Paint distress inks for the color. I stamped the sentiment in Peeled Paint, and then I used heat embossing for that shimmery swirl pattern. I accidentally bought "Translucent" embossing powder instead of opaque white one day, and basically put it to the side and forgot about it. I happened to try it out on a few of these tags, and I loooove the effect. You'll see it again in a minute on the snowflake tags.

 

These snowflake tags actually have a few layers. I first used the ranger color wash spray in Sailboat Blue, and watered it down and blotted it for a nice blue bottom coat. I used a sheet of snowflake stencils, and sprayed a layer of Denim color wash over it. If you have never used the color wash sprays, they are really fun to play around with. I think maybe I will do another post later about some cool techniques. YouTube "Ranger Color Wash" and there are some awesome tutorials! Anyways, then I used that translucent embossing powder, and then white opaque embossing powder. I used some snowflakes cut from glitter cardstock as the final layer. I haven't decided what to do with them yet! :)

 

 

This tag was the color wash in "Red Pepper" and distress ink in "Faded Brick". The sentiment was stamped in faded brick, and then I used that translucent powder for the swirly pattern.

 

 

 

Holiday Cards

Here are some more holiday cards! Bold, bright color papers on this one. I have way too many holiday paper packs at this point...instead of deciding to stop buying them, my solution is...buy another 3-drawer storage piece to keep them in. Anyone else have this problem?? :) Hope everyone is enjoying holiday crafting time! The banner card came out super cute...I originally had one layer of pennant scraps laid out, but it just didn't quite do it. Adding the second layer of smaller strips, and using the foam adhesive really made a difference.

December already....

Usually this is the time of year that I START thinking about making things for the holidays...in another week or two I would start buying supplies...and then December 23rd-ish I panic and pull all-nighters trying to get things done. Reminds me of high school. This is the first year that I have actually started ahead of time (in NOVEMBER, of all things). So here go the first few cards! I have made quite a few that I will post in the next few days. The snowflakes on the blue "Season's Greetings" card are vellum, heat embossed with white powder, and cut out, with a little jewel in the middle. The sentiment is cut from the cricut Winter Woodland cartridge. All of the ribbons are from JoAnn. The papers for the gray "Warmest Wishes" card is from the Paper Studio's "Boho Chic" pack, and the purply gold one is from the DCWV "Stardust Stack" (GORGEOUS pack). The snowflakes were cut from the cricut Winter Woodland cartridge, and heat embossed with white powder, although that doesn't show up well in the pictures. I really like those two for non-denominational holiday cards.