Christmas Card Assembly Line!

Happy Thursday everyone! One of the last little bits of non-holiday life is coming to a halt.  Tomorrow is my son's last day of school before the holidays so I spent today making some of the last Christmas cards for some of the people in my son's life; his 2 teachers, his principal and his bus driver.

I started off by cutting my card bases out using my Klic N'Kut machine.  I used a previous card base design that I had already designed to create my card shape.

Then I cut out 4 different card fronts using 4 different patterned papers form Fancy Pants Designs, the "Home for Christmas" collection. I cut 2 strips of different patterned papers and stitched them on to my card fronts.

Then I cut out the small bough shape using the Flourishes "Poinsettia and Pine SVG Cut File" from the same cardstock as my card bases and stamped the small boughs from the actual "Poinsettia and Pine" stamp set on to each shape using green ink. SUPER QUICK and EASY!  No fussy cutting... it's all done for you!!!

Using my Klic N'Kut machine, I then designed a tag that specifically fit my greeting from the Flourishes "Winter Bouquets" stamp set and stamped my greetings using dark brown ink.

Then I wrapped all of the cards using either twine or thin ribbon and adhered my tags and my little holly boughs.

Sure makes it easy when you cut 4 of everything.  I'm going to have to remember to do this next year too!  It worked out so well and SO quick!  Are you ready for Christmas yet???

Supplies: 
stamps: Flourishes (Winter Bouquets, Poinsettia & Pine)
cardstock: Papertrey Ink Rustic Cream
patterned papers: Fancy Pants Designs
cut files: Flourishes SVG Cut Files
inks: Stampin' Up!, Memento, Ranger
tool: Klic N Kut
ribbon: Offray
twine: Darice
accessories: thread.

 

May Your Holidays Sparkle!

 

Ho ho ho!!!  Less than a week until Christmas... and I am so not ready!  Being sick is hard let me tell you!

It's time for the latest Let's Capture These Sketches card sketch.  For December, we'll be sharing not only a card sketch... it will be a card sketch PLUS a PINspired Colour Challenge!!!!  So this month you'll have a sketch and a colour challenge!

Since December is a busy month, we have the final 2 card sketches and colour challenges for you.  Sketch #44 can be seen below and Sketch #45 & it's PINspired Colour Challenge can be seen HERE!

 Sketch #44

Here is the card that I created using Kimberly's sketch and the colour challenge posted above...

Sparkle

Come and check out both sketches and see what my fellow designers have done with their cards!  Check it out HERE!

Supplies: 
stamps: Flourishes (Holiday Sparkle)
cardstock: Papertrey Ink Rustic White
patterned papers: Echo Park, BasicGrey
edge punch, corner punch: EK Success
die cut shape: Spellbinders for Flourishes
inks: Versamark
embossing powder: PKGlitz
accessories: silver twine by Flourishes, thread.
 

PINspired Colour Challenge and a Card Sketch!

 

Howdy everyone!  Time for another fabulous card sketch! For December, we'll be sharing not only a card sketch... it will be a card sketch PLUS a PINinspired Colour Challenge!!!!  So this month you'll have a sketch and a colour challenge every Wednesday!

This week's fabulous card sketch was designed by myself.

Sketch #43

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Here's my card using my sketch and our second PINspired Colour Challenge...

From Our Family To Yours

For my card today, I stamped my gorgeous wreath from the Flourishes "Christmas Wreath" stamp collection (now retired) on to Flourishes Classic Ivory Cardstock using my favourite black ink, Memento's "Tuxedo Black". Then I coloured my image using a variety of reds and orange tones of Copic markers. I fussy cut the entire image out and then inked the edges using Ranger "Scattered Straw" Distress Ink.  I finished my card off with my stamped sentiment, also from the Flourishes "Christmas Wreath" stamp collection.

In the end I wasn't quite sure I was going to like the colours for a holiday card but I think they turned out pretty cool looking!  Don't you think?

Check out our prize for this month...

"Bloomin' Aussie Florals" stamp set by Flourishes

This month we have a fabulous set of Flourishes stamps, "Bloomin' Aussie Florals", as a prize for TWO lucky random participants.  YES... TWO!  We have two sets to give away this month!  So link up your card sketch creation HERE and we'll pick a random winner from all the card sketch entries for the month of December (from a total of 4 sketches).  Good luck!!!

Supplies: 
stamps: Flourishes (Christmas Wreath)
cardstock: Flourishes Classic Ivory, Papertrey Ink Rusty Cream
patterned papers: BasicGrey
inks: Memento, Ranger, Copic

 

Timeless Tuesday ~ Non-Traditional Holiday!

Howdy everyone!  I'm your hostess this week.  Are you counting the days until the holidays yet?  I know I sure am.  Now, let's get started with our 199th Timeless Tuesday Challenge!

This week's challenge is to create a holiday card or project where you use non-traditional festive colors (FTTC199).  So  NO green or red on your creations this week!  It's indeed, as simple as that!  Why not try creating a holiday card using orange and blue?  Pink and purple?  Or even simple black and white.  Let's see you get creative this week everyone!

Here is my simple holiday card this week...

Merry & Bright

I began by creating my card base using Flourishes Classic Ivory Cardstock.  Then I loaded some more ivory cardstock into my electronic die cutting machine and I cut out the large poinsettia shape using my Poinsettia & Pine SVG Cut File (also available in the Silhouette Cut File version HERE.).

I inked up my large poinsettia from the "Poinsettia & Pine" stamp collection using Memento "Summer Sky" ink and stamped it onto my cut shape.  I then stamped another poinsettia using the same ink and fussy cut just the poinsettia image out.

I took a fabulous piece of light blue cardstock from the Flourishes "Color Made Easy"~ "True Blue" cardstock collection, rounded two of my corners and embossed my design.  I stitched it onto another slightly larger piece of Flourishes Classic Ivory Cardstock and added it to my card base.  I stamped my greeting using the "Merry & Bright" sentiment from the "Poinsettia & Pine" stamp collection.  And volia... a simple holiday card was born!

Don't forget... to participate in this week's release week challenge, the "Let's Hop Challenge".  It's a super fun progressive challenge and YOU could win some of the AMAZING new December release stamp sets!!!

Come and check out what our fabulous designers have done with this week's challenge for you...

Amanda Havon
Broni Holcombe
Cindy Haffner
Denise Marzec
Maki Jones 
Katie Sims – December’s Guest Designer

Thanks for stopping by today!  I'd love it if you joined us this week for my challenge!


Supplies: 
stamps: Flourishes (Poinsettia & Pine)
cardstock: Flourishes Classic Ivory Cardstock, Flourishes Color Made Easy
cut files:  Flourishes SVG Files
embossing folder: Cuttlebug
corner rounder: EK Success
tools: Klic N'Kut
inks: Memento
accessories: glitter by Martha Stewart, thread.