Trim the tree Card

I am going to try and show some of the Christmas cards and layouts that I have been working on lately. My life has been crazy busy with all the Christmas Projects and gifts and decorating the house!! The time is flying by too! Hopefully I will complete everything on my list. lol

This card uses one of the new CTMH products. They are rhinestone Holiday shapes that match both a stamp set and Cricut cuts. So it is very quick to put such a beautiful card together. The stamp set has the size of the image and the page # where it is found in the Cricut handbook. So all you need to do is cut your images with the Art Philosophy cartridge then stamp the corresponding shapes with the Tim the tree stamp set. Lastly add the Holiday Shape around the outside of the stamped image. In this card both the trees and the star have the Holiday Shape attached to the stamped image.

Along the left side of this card I also used the stitching ruler and stitched a zigzag line using some grey floss. You could leave this step out though if you aren't a stitcher. You could stamp in that area from a stamp set tat has stitching images as another way of getting a similar look.

Finally using the Artbooking cartridge I cut the "Believe" using RDS and 1". This card is a great one for using all those scraps you have.

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Supply List

4." x 5." Believe Card

 

Make It from Your Heart® Vol. 1: Pattern 24

A1149 My Acrylix® Trim the Tree

 

 

X7176B Sparkle & Shine Paper Packet

X5762 Lagoon Cardstock

 

Z2173 Slate Exclusive Inks® Pad

Z2170 Ruby Exclusive Inks® Pad

Z2172 Whisper Exclusive Inks® Pad

 

 

 

Z1701 Baker’s Twine Neutral Assortment

Z1861 Mini-Medley Accents Ruby Collection

Z1910 Sparkle Holiday Shapes

 

Z1906 Cricut® Artbooking Collection

Z1686 Cricut® Art Philosophy Collection

Cricut® Shapes:

Artbooking

 

1" Shift+Title (p. 74)

  

Art Philosophy

 

2" (cut 2, p. 31)

3/4" (p. 40) 

A couple more Christmas cards....

 

My first card is made using the Frosted Christmas paper form CTMH. The Artiste cartridge was used for the snowflakes and the image in the center of the card. I have a North Pole Christmas village from Dept 56 and when I saw the stamp set called Christmas Village I couldn't resist. I had to get it!! I used just one of the villages that came on that stamp set. I used Sweet Leaf, Crystal Blue and Crème Brulee alcohol markers to add some color and then popped it up. The snowflakes are layered and two are popped up and one is left flat. I finished it with a cream paper flower and some twine that was wrapped around the card and tied into a knot. 

 My next card was put together with the Sparkle and Shine paper pack, Mary & Babe stamp set and the Sparkle and Shine washi tape. I used alcohol markers to color Baby Jesus in the colors of Crystal Blue, and Honey. To give the skin color I tried using the water brush and Blush ink. I am still trying to learn how to color and have it look right. To add a little sparkle I stamped the star and added silver glitter. The silver designed Washi tape was put next to the B&T paper and I put a piece on some White Daisy CS and then trimmed the end for a banner.

I have some more Christmas Cards that I will be posting in the next few days.
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Sparkle and Shine Christmas Cards

CTMH has a fun Christmas paper called Sparkle and Shine. I made these two cards using that paper and the Santa Claus stamp set. The colors are Whisper, Juniper, and Ruby. Plus of course adding some shimmer and bling with the red shimmer tape and clear sparkles. On the second card the front of the card was random stamped with two different snowflake stamps and whisper ink. Just adding a few strips of paper with that background and you have a beautiful card.

I have been busy as ever working on layouts , cards for Fall and Christmas ad Home Décor items. So stay tuned. I will try to get them all posted as soon as I can. I also have some more CTMH videos to post. They have some good info and beautiful projects.

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A start of my Christmas Cards

Well I finally got started making my Christmas Cards. I have two to show you now and will be back with more.

My first card was made using a Card Kit from CTMH. It is called the Pear & Partridge Card making Kit. It has a beautiful stamp set included along with the Pear & Partridge paper, some beautiful tan ribbon and red sparkle gems. I made mine just a bit different. I added some Prism Glitter to the ornaments. The colors used were Cranberry, Olive and Cocoa. It is a very simple card but I think stunning and elegant as well.

The second card is a Twisted Easel Card.

I used the same papers from the kit above. I stamped with Versamark a little deer from the stamp set "Warm Memories" and then embossed it with "Pirate's Gold" embossing powder. The ribbon is the CTMH seam binding ribbon and I colored it with Cranberry Re-inker. I love this ribbon because you can use it as it is or color it any color you want to match your project. I even got out one of my tools I haven't used in a while. You have some like that too , right??  I love this tool I just forget about it some times. It is my "Bow Easy". It makes the best bows ever. So I took it out and made a double bow to add above the oval with the deer in it.

I don't think it shows up in my picture but with this style of card you can put a Battery Tea Light behind the vellum part of he card and it lights up your image that is on the vellum. I want to make more of these with different images. You could have a tree, an angel, a small stocking etc.  It is a fun change on the regular Easel Card. I also used the Apron Lace Fiskars Border Punch along the left edge of the Cashmere CS piece.

Hope you enjoyed these cards. Come back to see some more Christmas Cards over the following days and weeks.

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