Christmas Stocking!

Here's my first set of 8 cards. Sorry, my picture taking skills need some brushing up! I usually do 1 card at a time, but I finally got the bright idea that its better to cut several of one kind than to do 1 card, really like it, and then decide I want to do more. Oh, and Jordan decided to be part of the picture. He just had a piece of toast with jelly. Can you tell?

Stocking - Christmas Cheer 5 inches. Outlined with gold paint pen
Corners - Jasmine 2 1/4 inches
Red stickles on the berries
MS holly leaf stamp on the green top of stocking
fiskars punch on side of card

Santa's sleigh

This was an easy and quick card to make. I used the sleigh from PDDU and made some flourishes with a gold paint pen. The gifts were cut from BB and I stickled them. I put the ribbon on rather easily using glue dots. That was surprising to me because I really didn't expect it to stick.

Seasons Greetings!

This is a simple card, but it is really beautiful in person. I used my new glitter heat embossing powder to create the design on the background. The snowflake was cut from AE and the jeweled snowflakes are stickers I picked up at M's. The sentiment is from Beyond Birthdays, I think:)

PEACE

I love this card! Maybe I should send it to myself. *giggles* Anyway, the dove and leaf are from Christmas Cheer and I think I cut them at 2". The side leaves are from CC also, but I enlarged and welded them in DS. I love the glittery paper and I outlined it with a gold paint pen to add some umph:) The bow turned out to be a fabulous addition. I just love the whole thing!!! There's still a sentiment that I have to add on the inside. Not sure what it will say yet. I think I'll go post on Cricut now.

Today I only made

one card. Its so frustrating to have the time to work on these cards only to find my creativity is not flowing so well! Here is the card I made today. I used glue dots to attach the ribbon. The snowflakes behind the wreath are stamped and embossed (not that you can tell from the picture) and the wreath is propped up. The white on the wreath is glitter paper and the pearls are so pretty next to it. This is a very simple card, but I think its quietly elegant too.

Yeah for more Christmas cards!

And here we go again... I've been busy! The one I really like of this bunch is the last pictured because I used my new eyelet tool and then laced ribbon through and tied it on the inside of the card. It makes it quaint and I like that. Just love that Christmas Cheer cartridge! I go a little nuts with glitter, and I even added bells on one card. How I love Christmas!

A start...

I began making my Christmas cards!!! I have 3 done, 1 in progress and many more to go. Here are the 3 I have finished. The 'Our home to Yours' card was inspired by Susan Edwards design which I saw on Bitten By the Bug. I can't express how helpful it is to have access to so many talented and creative women. There is a lot of 3-d to these cards, but with a picture it is really difficult to show which pieces are raised. If only pictures really did justice! I have added some close ups to try and show some more detail. I used chalk paint to color and detail some pieces, mostly on the nativity card.