Snowman Cards

I used the Speaking of Winter cartridge for the snowmen on these cards. The backgrounds are from my scrap pile. I used Design Studio to make the solid background papers on all the cards.

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Using Design Studio and the George cartridge I made the decorative solid background papers. Since I have the baby bug the papers are on the 6x12 mat. After I made the two cards that are above I decided that it needed something else. So I made decorative paper strips to go with the decorative background papers.

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Recipe: Cricut Cartridges: George, Speaking of Winter, Paper: Scraps Stamps: Hero Arts - Happy Holidays Stampendous - Heavenly Swirls Ink: Black, Cranberry, Garnet

Reindeer

I have a bunch of large envelopes 7 1/4 " x 5 1/8" to use , so this is a large card front which and gave me plenty of room to play. The white card base is 7 1/8" x 5". Onto this is I layered black and then green card stock.

Then a piece of black card stock with a tan background paper on top. There were scraps from my scrap file. The tan background paper kind of looks like the hooves on the reindeer.

I used the George cartridge to cut the circles of 1 1/2", 1 5/8", and 1 3/4" in tan white and black card stock. I then stamped the holly leaves and berries in green on the tan card stock and used Xmas Red Stickles for the holly berries. After everything was dry I outlined the holly leaves with a black gel pen.

I used the Christmas Cheer cartridge to cut out two of the reindeer one on tan and one on brown card stock. The hooves are cut from black and the antlers are from a second color of brown card stock. The tan reindeer has distressed edges around it including the antlers. The Reindeer is then layered onto a tan background inked with brown ink, white card stock and then black card stock.

Recipe: Paper: White, tan, black, green, two colors of brown and two background colors Ink: Walnut Distress Ink, brown, green Cricut Cartridges: Christmas Cheer, George and The Basic Shapes Stamps: Merry Christmas - Clear Stamps Misc: Xmas red stickles, pop up dots, glue, gel pen.

Santa

This is one of my favorites stamps. I've had it since I first started stamping in Washington State with my friend Bonnie. Because I use it so often I keep a list of who I sent the cards to the year before that has this stamp on it.





I stamped on white card stock with garnet ink and trimmed close to the stamp. I then layered onto gold paper then brown paper. With the dark brown card front cut to 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" I stamped the flourishes in gold and embossed with gold embossing powder. With the ribbon I tied a bow and faked wrapping the ribbon around the card. By this I mean the ribbon is only wrapped around the edge of the card front and is long enough to hide behind the stamped and layered image. The layered stamp is them placed onto the card front.






Recipe: Paper: Brown and gold Stamps: Santa Stamp from Rose Crafts, Autumn Leaves Swirls v:1 Ink: gold, garnet Embossing Powder: Gold Misc: Glue, ribbon.

Christmas Card

I stamped the French Script on the card front with in dark pink. The light green card stock is cut 3"x 4 1/4" and stamped with the swirl stamped once, then I stamped the sentiment, then the flower several times. The background paper with the dots is cut 3 1/4"x 4 1/4". Both green pieces have the edges inked.

Instead of make the whole card out of the pink card stock I just make the card front out of the pink which is then glued onto a white card base.

For the inside I cut the paper 1" wide and repeated the stamping process as above.


Recipe:Cardstock: Sonburn greens, pink Cricut card stock Stamps: Autumn Leaves Swirls v:1, Stampendous, Heavenly Swirls, Hero Arts French Script and flower: Ink: Light green and pink.

Hugs

The paper is from Summer splash pack. I cut the flower paper 4" x 5 1/4" and the striped paper 2" x 4". Both pieces were edged in brown ink, and the flower paper has fake stitching lines from a Gel pen. I used the Cricut Cartridge Walk In My Garden for the flower and cut four of them 1" and two of each size 1 1/2", and 2" on pink card stock, which were then sponged with Orchid. I also used a gel pen to detail the center. I have no idea who the stickers are from.

Here is the inside of the card. I cut the striped 1" x 4" and edged with orchid ink. Glueded 2 of the 1" size flowers in the center.

Recipe: Paper: Summer Slpash Pack, brown and pink card stock Ink: orchid, brown, Cricut Cartridge: Walk In My Garden Misc: white sticker, glue, sponge, gel pen

May Autumn's vibrant . . .

colors lend warmth to chilly days is the quote on my November calendar. You can download the word art here. I used Lucida Calligraphy, Italic 24 pt to type this and it is 3x3, but I printed on a 4x6 so I had room for cropping. I used my corner punch straight across the brown paper to create the edging on the saying.

The background paper is from the Rockstar Pack, the rest of the papers are from my scrap pile. I used my Cricut cartridge A Walk in My Garden for the flowers and Doodlecharms for the two types of leaves.

The flowers and leaves were chalked and detailed added with gel pens. Here is a couple close ups of them. I thinly cut green paper to add a little bit of dimension. The stems were free handed.

The small orange flowers in the corner are punched on orange card stock, pressed into a gold ink pad, and embossed with clear embossing powder.

Recipe: Cardstock: Rock Star Stack and scraps Cricut Cartridges: Walk In My Garden, Doodlecharms Misc: Gel Pens, Chalk, golden ink, clear embossing powder, flower punch, decorative corner punch, scissors, glue, pop up dots.

November

The november CD Calendar is here.

I used the corner punch for the trim on the bottom of the page. Instead of punching the corners only I punched straight across the paper, lining up the side of my punch with what was just punched. The leaves are punched from scrap paper and either embossed with embossing powder or Ultra fine glitter. Instead of using black for the base I used brown as it went better with the color scheme. Using the Jasmine cartridge I welded November onto a rectangle and cut out in brown then the individual letters in green.

Receipe: Paper: Brown Cardstock for the backing, calendar mat and November background, Striped paper is Autumn Sparkle by Karen Foster, orange and green is Sonburn 2 sided paper, scraps for leaves Cricut Cartridge: Jasmine Ink: VersaMark Embossing Powders: came in a set of various colors from Michaels Ultra Fine Glitter: 109 Cavalado Opaque, 199 Torch Lake Transparent, 94 Key Lime Transparent Punches: Corner punch, leaf punch, Misc: glue, pop up dots