This is my third attempt at the sponged silhouette card.

On my first attempt I stamped the sentiment too far from the tree – I think overlapping would have helped. I did have a couple folks give me some additional feedback on that card – thanks!!

My second attempt (not photographed) was basically this card, but the tree was embossed. Honestly, the only reason I scrapped that was because how warped the cardstock gets.

For this final iteration, I used a mask. It was a complete pain to cut-out the tree mask (the die wasn’t quite detailed enough to use that), but it was totally worth it. The only down-side was that, since I made 4 cards, the mask was trashed when I was done — too much ink. Next time I decide to mass-produce with masks I’ll make sure I give the mask time to dry between uses.

Now I just have 1 more card to design and my gift set is done!

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Just another gift Christmas card.

The berries have stickles over them to give a tiny bit of sparkle.

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I created this card for the latest CAS(e) This Sketch.

I’m not sure if I’m going to make a few more of these for my friend, or just leave it as a one-off for my own stash. It is cute, but I try to make fairly conventional cards for my friend (her family isn’t initiated to the creativity that can be card-making ;).

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A couple months ago I pinned an incredible card by Nancy Penir. Without that inspiration I would never have thought to bend my string of lights around!

I originally was going to make this a one-layer card, but honestly chickened out. I figured it would be easier to waste a quarter sheet than a half (though I suppose half of the half could still be used for scrap and die-cutting).

Anyway, when it came time to mount the light panel to a card base, I struggled over what color to use. I first thought to match the yellow circle, but I used crushed curry and while I love the ink, the cardstock can be a bit overpowering. I had 3 shades of yellow and a green on my desk and still couldn’t decide. Thankfully my kiddo was able to put into words why I couldn’t decide. When I called them over to help, they immediately said, “green, because it makes the yellow pop”. Ah! Yes….when I used yellow as a background, the sentiment faded away and the light strand was the focus.

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I am a little behind in making Christmas cards for a friend. Last year I made 6 of 4 designs. This year I’m going for the opposite: 4 each of 6 designs. I’ve managed to sketch out 4 ideas. This is the first one.

I trimmed the branch piece so that the candy cane could hang on the branch. I did stamp a couple additional pines onto the white panel to fill out the branch.

The candy cane image is quite long – so I had to trim a bit off the end so that I had room for everything.

The sentiment is pieced together from 3 sets!

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