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Hang the Stockings

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I create this card for this week’s CAS challenge at SCS (CAS149). The challenge was to create a shaped card and use a sketch.

I flipped the sketch upside-down to make my card work for me. The stocking tops are cut from felt and the stocking bottoms are embossed.

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Deck the Halls
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Holiday Lights, Background Basics: Sheet Music;
Colors: Spring Moss, Pure Poppy, Pinefeather, White;
Other: Mat Stack 1 Mega die, Stockings die, Holly Jolly die, Picnic Plaid Impression Plate;

Worlds Apart

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I created this card for mom’s stamp camp last month. My assignment was to use Zoo Review. Since the theme for that camp was the winter holidays, I decided to use the two cold-weather animals.

I know polar bears and penguins don’t co-habitate, but that made me think about how many “invisible” friends I have online – which lead me to the sentiment 🙂

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World 2 Me
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Zoo Review, Word Play;
Colors: Bashful Blue, Night of Navy, White; and markers: Sahara Sand, Pumpkin pie;
Other: Dazzling Details (glitter glue), Northern Flurries embossing folder;

Wintery Thank You

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I created this card for mom’s 12 Weeks of Christmas newsletter.

While this may not be “quick” – if you stamp and emboss a couple pieces of blue card stock all at once, you can cut it up and have 8 panels ready for cards. And the rest of the card is super easy.

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Thank You
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Serene Snowflake, Perfect Punches;
Colors: Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, White;
Other: White ribbon, Oval Scallop punch, White embossing powder;

Nature’s Tree

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I was inspired by an adorable card by Julie(HRR) and a cool trimming idea by Lisa Young.

I actually pinned Lisa’s tree when she posted it in October – I wanted to do a tree with sections trimmed with lace or something. But it wasn’t until I saw Julie’s card layout that I figured out how to make my tree into a card.

I originally didn’t want to overwhelm the card with patterned paper as the sky, but now I wish I had at least embossed the background or found a subtle pattern.

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Christmas Wishes
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Merry & Bright;
Colors: Kraft, Chocolate, Rain, White, Melon;
Other: Merry & Bright die; Scallop Ribbon die (MFT); glitter;

Winter Scene

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I created this card as soon as I received my In the Meadow stamps & dies. I never did play in the PTI Make it Monday where you layered dies to create frames…so I did that for this card.

The card is pretty straight-forward. I did hand-cut the hill.

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Merry Christmas
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: In the Meadow, Mixed Messages;
Colors: Rain, Melon, Pinefeather, White;
Other: Mat Stack 1 Mega die, Mat Stack 5 die, In the Meadow dies; Polka Dot embossing folder (CB);

Stitched Christmas

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These two cards were created for InkUp newsletters. They both happen to use stitching and are Christmas themed, so I thought I’d post them together.

Mom had asked me to create a shaker card using the new Mica Flakes and Dimensional Foam Frames from the Holiday Mini. This card is what I came up with.

To make the ornament shaker, I stamped and punched two ornaments. From one ornament I also punched a circle (I punched a circle from scrap, placed it on my ornament, traced it, then aligned the traced line with the punch). I glued an acetate ornament to the back of the front ornament, followed by a Foam Frame, added a bit of mica, then peeled the liner from the Foam Frame and attached the back ornament.

The hardest part about this card was sewing around the Top Note!! And in case you don’t know, to do the matted Top Note, I just die cut two – one in green and one in white; the “front” one (in this case the green one) was then hand-cut around the embossed dashed lines.

This next card was quite fun. I started by cutting a Vanilla panel the size I wanted the “quilt”. I marked a dot on the Vanilla panel where the sentiment would be. Then I just took one piece of patterned paper and placed the corner on the dot and adhered it, then I trimmed the paper along the Vanilla edge. I repeated that for each of the other three patterns.

I added machine stitching to the pattern panel (zig-zag where the patterns meet and straight around the edge). I wrapped the panel with the ribbon and adhered it to the card base. Finally I stamped and punched my sentiment and adhered it with dimensionals.

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Christmas Greetings
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Delightful Decorations, Grateful Greetings;
Colors: Garden Green, White, Real Red;
Other: Top Note die, Ornament punch, Circle punch, Acetate, White Baker’s Twine, Sq Lattice Embossing Folder, Mica flakes & Frame Dimensional Foam (Holiday Mini);
Joy at Christmas
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Perfect Punches;
Colors: Espresso, Cherry, Wasabi, Vanilla;
Other: Holly Berry Bouquet DSP, Cherry Seam Binding ribbon, Scallop Circle punch;

Bells & Boughs

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I created quite a few Christmas cards for my mom’s StampinUp business. These two I’m posting today are both done with Bells & Boughs (so happy this set made it to the big catalog!).

This first card, while it may seem similar to other cards I’ve posted, this one is actually the first one I created – and it is also my favorite Christmas card I’ve created this year!

The greenery on this card was created with the pines from Lovely as a Tree. The bells are watercolored, cut out, and popped-up.

 
This second card needed to be a quick and easy card for stamp camp.

I started by stamping the Sahara panel with the holly image. I sponged around the edge of the panel to help pop it from the card base. The rest of the card should be fairly obvious – a little embossing, some ribbon, and a die cut.

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Merry Christmas (yellow bells)
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Bells & Boughs, Christmas Greetings, Lovely as a Tree, Music Notes wheel;
Card Stock: Saffron, Limeaid, White;
Ink: Saffron & Mustard, Limeaid & Olive, Calypso & Riding Hood;
A Merry Christmas (sand holly)
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Bells & Boughs;
Colors: Sahara Sand, Always Artichoke, Cherry Cobbler;
Other: Artichoke Seam Binding, Tags die, Plenty-a-Petals Embossing Folder;

Christmas Bells

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I really love this color scheme and layout for bells!

Using the PaperTrey Ink dies made this a very easy card to pull together. Also, instead of using a wheel or other “border” type set to create the music background, I pulled out an old StampinUp background – just one quick inking and the background was done!

This is the last of my mailable Christmas cards – I hope you enjoyed them and maybe even got some inspiration!

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Merry Christmas
Stamps: Bells & Boughs (PTI); Musical Score Background (SU);
Colors: Saffron, Pear, Vanilla (SU); Black, Poppy (PTI);
Other: Bells & Boughs dies (PTI);

Relaxing Atmosphere

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This week’s Clean & Simple Challenge on SCS is to Chill Out. Instead of doing a winter themed card (because it is winter!), I went with the relaxing theme.

I really love the soft blue and green combo for relaxing, so that is where I started. My favorite way to relax is to read, so I stamped up a little scene to create my relaxing atmosphere.

Oh and I have to say, I used Soft Stone ribbon. You can’t tell this is a shade of grey. White was too stark on this card, but the Stone color really helped keep the warm and cozy feel.

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Time to Relax
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: On My Couch;
Colors: Aqua Mist, Black;
Other: Everyday Blessing DSP; Soft Stone ribbon;

Gift Card Gift

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I picked up a gift card for my kiddo’s teacher. I wanted an interactive way to give the card. My kid helped me come up with this idea and I’m really happy with how it turned out.

My kiddo chose the colors – because purple is the teacher’s favorite color and yellow looks good with purple 🙂

You can’t see it in the photo, but the card base is embossed with PTI’s musical impression plate (again, the teacher likes to sing).

This was actually pretty simple to pull off.

The striped paper is popped up with foam tape (placed to just allow the gift card in – so that the top aligns as it should). The gift top is a folded piece of card stock with the gift card adhered to the inside back with repositionable tape.

 
Hopefully the second photo shows how the ribbon works. One piece is attached to the back of the present bottom, and the other piece is attached to the back of the present top.

I finished off the inside of the card with a little row of presents (because you know, kids don’t write a whole lot, lol).

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Gift Card
Stamps: Tiny Tags 1 & 2 (PTI); Holiday Sampler (SU);
Colors: Lemon Tart, Lavender Moon, Plum Pudding, White (PTI);
Other: Guidelines DSP (PTI); Plum ribbon (PTI); Tags die (PTI);