Christmas Tree Ticket card

I pulled out an older Unity Stamps Kit of the Month for todays card. I used design studio to make today's Christmas Card with the Close to my Heart - Art Philosophy cartridge on this card. 

I've got a few more Christmas cards that I need to make. I love the way the metallic gold pen adds a richness to the card.

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Cutting instructions:
Card Base: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", scored at  8 1/4"
Background: 4" x 5 1/4"

Cricut Cut:
5th Key - Sized to  4.858" x 1.789" ( background tickets)
5th Key - Sized to 3.629" x 2.372" (white ticket with stamp)

Recipe:
Paper: Recollection: white and kraft; Unknown Christmas paper
Stamps: Unity Kit of the Month - October 2013 "Oh Christmas Tree" ( Tree Stamp)
Ink: Close to my Heart - Ponderosa Pine
Gold Pen: Sakura Pen- Touch Calligrapher 5.0 mm Gold
Cricut Cartridge: Close to my Heart Art Philosophy
Misc.: Adhesive, pop up dots, green embroidery ribbon, Cricut Design Studio

Dining Inn

I've use the black and white papers from my July Counterfeit Kit.  I pulled them specifically for this photo of my oldest. I was going to have the photo be black and white also but I just didn't like the way it was going so I reprinted it in color.

I use the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge to cut the scallop and all of the circles.  The white ribbon came from Target in the Christmas Clearance aisle.

I used the Wilton's Rose Petals as leaves for the flowers.  They came in white and a tulle and add such a nice accent on the page. A little bit of beaded trim and a few enamel dots finish off the page.


Counterfeit Kit Challenge - July
20 - 12x12 Layouts
2 - Mini albums
3 - Tags
2 - Cards for Operation Write Home

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Recipe:
Paper: Counterfeit Kit: DCWV - Ultimate Premium Stack "Black and White" section, Black and white cardstock
Ink: Distress Ink - Black Soot
Stamp - Date stamp
Circuit: Close to My Heart Art Philosophy
Misc.: Adhesive, Crop-A-Dile 1/2", various flowers, foam tape,  home made enamel dots, lace,  pearls, ribbon, Wilton's Rose Petals, and Zots.

a season for love, A Season of Thanks . . .

Hi everyone thanks for stopping by.  If you are here from the Card ADay Blog you know we are celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving this week. 

 



I started by cutting the background paper a little bit smaller than my card.  I then embossed and inked the flower shape that I cut with my Cricut. The other shaped I just inked the edges.  The leaves are stamped onto white cardstock, cleared embossed, inked then cut out.  I have layered them with pop up dots between the layers.  I tied a bow and wrapped a piece of embroidery thread around the center of the bow before attaching it to the top of the leaves.

For the inside I stamped my sentiment "a season for love, A Season of Thanks, A Season For Love" then added a little border at the top of the card.

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Cutting Instructions:
Card Base: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", scored at 4 1/4"
Pattern Paper: 5 1/4" x 4"
White cardstock (inside)  5 1/4" x 4"

Cricut Cartridges:
Close to my Heart Art Philosophy - button 33 cut at 2 1/2"
Bloom - button 48 cut at 3 7/8"

Recipe:
Paper: Recollections Cardstock - brown, kraft, white and off white: Unknown polka dot paper
Ink: Stampin' Up - Dustry Durango, Crushed Curry, Wild Wasabi and Bravo Burgundy; Distress Ink - Vintage Photo; Inkadinkadoo - Burgundy; Stazon - Jet Black
Stamp: Unity August 2013 Kit of the Month { cozy moments}
Embossing Folder: Stampin' Up - Final Press
Cricut Cartridges - Close to my Heart Art Philosophy and Bloom
Misc.: Adhesive, scrap ribbon, embroidery floss, pop up dots, clear embossing powder, Cuttlebug, scissors.

Au Revoir

Hi everyone, I am the Designer today at the Card A Day Blog and our weekly theme is Travel.  For my card I used my Cricut to cut the main elements of my card (the Cricut cut sizes are posted below).

I embossed my green circle then used the distress ink to make it stand out. I cut the black and white pattern paper with the cricut, then trimmed it down so that I had 2" of it for my card front and attached the punch border to the back side.  I used a piece of scrap ribbon - which was really narrow - so I doubled it up to make it look wider on the front of the card and tied it to the side. This piece was then layered onto the white cardstock then the card base.

 

To make the tag I cut the cream cardstock 2 1/8" x 4" and trimmed the top corners.  I stamped the Eiffel Tower onto a separate piece of cream cardstock, cut it out, inked the edges with distress ink and used pop up dots to place it on the tag.  Au Revoir is stamped directly onto the tag after I had the Eiffel Tower on it.  I then tore the bottom of the tag off to make it fit the card and inked all the tag edges. I stamped "4 You" on cream cardstock, punched it out and placed it under the ribbon knot.

 

 

 

I used the Boho Blossom punch and punched the large and medium flowers out of black cardstock.  I used a regular paper punch and the green cardstock for the flower centers.  I used glossy accents to hold the flower pieces together and the brad on the card front.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by.  Tomorrow Shirley Ross is the Designer to inspire you at the Card A Day Blog.

Cricut Cuts:
Card Base: Scallop Card (button 11): Cut 1 at 5 1/4"
Large Circle (button 1):  Cut 2 at 4 1/2" (white and green cardstock)
Small Circle (button 1): Cut 3 at 4 1/4" ( white, green and black and white pattern paper)

Recipe:
Cardstock: Recollections - white, black and cream; Unknown - green and black and white pattern
Stamps: Unity Kit of the Month - December 2012 {everyday fairytale}; Stampin' Up - Tiny Tags
Ink: Stazon - Jet Black; Distress Ink - Vintage Photo; Versa Magic - Midnight Black
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug - Textile
Punches: Stampin' Up - Jewelry Tag, Scallop Trim and Boho Blossoms
Cricut Cartridge:  Close to my Heart  Art Philosophy
Brads: Stampin' Up - Filigree
Misc.: Adhesive, Cuttlebug, Glossy Accents, Hole Punch, Pop up dots, Scissors, White Ribbon

Happy Easter

Hi everyone, thanks for joining me from the Card A Day Blog.  Today I have an egg shaped Easter Card to share with you. 

I used the Close to My Heart Art Philosophy cartridge to cut my egg card base, the inside liner and the outside pattern paper. I inked all of the edges with the burgundy ink.  I layered a few flowers on top, made a bow, then added the pearls.  I stamped the sentiment, cut it into a banner shape and added a few pearls.  There are a few pop up dots behind it to give it more dimension.

For the inside I stamped the Easter egg with the flowers on the edge of the mat. 

 

The stamps are from Studio G and only say Series 47 on the back of them.  I think I probably got them out of the dollar bin as they are pretty small. 

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Recipe:
Paper: Recollections - brown and white;  Pink Paislee - Sweetness "Sweetest Day"
Stamp: Studio G - Series 47
Ink: Stazon - Jet Black; Stampin' Up - Melon Mambo; Inkadinkadoo - burgundy
Ribbon: Stampin' Up - 1/2" Very Vanilla Seam binding
Cricut Cartridge: Close To My Heart Art Philosophy
Misc.: pearls, flowers, rhinestones, adhesive and pop up dots

Christmas Tags

I have a couple of tags I made that will going on my Guys' packages. 

 

For the Tree Tag I hand cut the tag shape to 5 1/4" x 2 1/2" out of Kraft card stock.  I stamped the large snowflake from Snow Swirled and smallest snowflake from Delightful Decoration onto the background of the tag, then used a marker for the faux stitching.  I stamped the tree onto white card stock in Soft Suede ink then hand cut the tree out.  Out of Kraft card stock I cut another tree and used a marker for the faux stitching lines.  From red card stock I punched the round tab then stamped the large snowflake again.  I punched the small snowflake from red using the 3/4" circle punch.  I added the snowflake eyelet to the top of the tag with the red yarn. I stamped Merry Christmas then punched it out. A little bit of green zig zag ribbon and a few pearls to finish off the tag.  There are actually a few pearls in the tree - they are hard to see in the picture.

 

For the Dasher tag I cut two shapes out of Kraft and one red card stock.  I stamped Dasher in the center of one of the Kraft shapes and used the same snowflake stamps for the background on the other Kraft and red shape.  I stamped my sentiment and punched it out then layered it onto a punched piece of white card stock.   This is glued to the star shape and a gold brad holds it to the shapes. The holly leaves and berry were cut and inked then layered onto the tags. 

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Cricut Cartridges Cutting Instructions:
CTMH Art Philosophy -  button 23 cut at 3"
Christmas Cheer - Shadow Feature on Holly cut at 2"
George and Basic Shapes - Star cut at 1 3/4"

Recipe:
Card stock: Recollections - white, Kraft and red
Stamps" Stampin' Up - Dasher, Snow Swirled, Mini Mates, Delightful Decorations; Close To My Heart - Say It In Style; My Sentiment Exactly - True Meaning Tags
Ink: Stampin' Up - Soft Suede, Riding Hood Red
Punch: Stampin' Up - Round Tab Punch, Tag Punch ; Martha Stewart - Scallop Circle; Marvy - 1" and 3/4" Circle Punch
Cricut Cartridges: CTMH Art Philosophy, Christmas Cheer, George and Basic Shapes
Misc.: Adhesive, Crop-a-dile, Eyelets - unknown, Crop -a-dile - snowflake, hot glue, Recollections - pearls; Making Memories - Mini Brads; Marker - Bic Ultra fine - Woodey Brown, red yarn, green zig zag lace.

Tim's Tag Day 2

Have you checked out Tim's Tag 2.  I was surprised at how quickly this came together.  I stamped my tag with Stampin' Up's Music Notes then painted it with Antique White acrylic paint and wiped it off before it dried.  I used my heat gun to help the drying process.  I sponged on a bit of Broken China then sprayed glimmer mist on it.  I cut the antlers off of the deer, ran it through my Xyron, placed a square of muslin on it and hand cut it out.  After sponging on some Brushed Corduroy ink I think it looks almost like Tim's. For the border I used a scrap of  tan cardstock, punched with the scallop border punch, inked with Vintage Photo and added pearls.

I am entering this into the Inspiration Journal Challenge.

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Cricut Cuts: Tag - Close To My Heart Art Philosophy; Reindeer and Wreath - Christmas

Recipe:

Paper: Cardstock - Recollections Kraft paper, scrap for border and green

Cricut Cartridges: Close To My Heart - Art Philosophy, Christmas

Stamps: Stampin' Up - Snow Swirled, Music Notes; Merry Christmas

Ink: Stazon - Black Jet. VersaMark - Embossing Ink; Distress Ink - Brushed Corduroy, Broken China, Vintage Photo

Punch: Stampin' Up - Scallop Border

Misc.: Glimmer Mist - Jazz Blue, Stickles - Holly, Xyron, Muslin, Acrylic Paint - Antique White, Heat gun, Pearls, Adhesive, pop up dots, Pearls, button, ribbon and yarn.

Tim's Tag - Day 1

Since I'm feeling better I started looking at Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas and I just can't resist. I thought I could just look at them and say next year but that just isn't happening. So here's my take on Tim's Day 1.

I used my Cricut and several cartridges to make this tag and will have a list at the bottom of the post.  I cut the tag out of kraft cardstock and used Desert Turquoise Acrylic Paint to paint my tag, and embossed with the Cuttlebug Snowflake Folder.  I forgot to distress the tag by sanding - 1 step skipped.  I used the Snowflakes embossing folder, the Xyron on the "Noel"

Entered in the Insiration Journal.

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Cricut Cartridges: Holly Leaves and Pine Branch - Christmas; Tag and pine cone flowers - Close To My Heart Art Philosophy; Banner - Heritage; Noel - Martha Stewart Seasonal; Swirl and Swirl for "Noel" - Sweethearts.

Recipe:

Cardstock: Recollections Kraft, scraps of brown, light green, dark green

Stamp: Stampin' Up - Music Notes

Ink: VersaMagic - Peralescent Ivy; Inkadinkadoo - Coffee Bean; Distress Ink - Faded Jeans, Vintage Photo; Stazon - Jet Black; Embossing Ink

Cricut Cartridges: Christmas, Close To My Heart Art Philosophy, Heritage, Martha Stewart Seasonal, Sweethearts
Acrylic Paint - Desert Turquoise

Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug -Snowflake

Misc: Zig Brushables - Root Beer Float; Stampin' Up - Silver Glitter Glass; White Embossing Powder, pop up dots, adhesive, Xyron, ribbon, yarn, buttons. hot glue gun