Christmas Card done!

My Christmas Cards are all made! Yay, Yippy, Yahoo. I like to send them out the day after Thanksgiving. All I need to do now is address them…but that is for another day. I needed to rest my hands.

 

I made over 30. Those  MemoryBox Bianca Snowflakes could have been tedious but they weren’t thanks to the Spellbinder’s ToolNOne! I paired it with my old Coluzzle mat…remember those. Sadly they are no longer made. When I saw the mat that Spellbinders’ sells online, I thought that looks like my Coluzzle mat. I don’t know for certain that they are the same material but the Coluzzle mat did the trick see here:

 

This spared my hands for sure! Now that this task is complete I am free to pursue other crafty adventures.

Other supplies:

Paper Trey Ink – One Liners Die (peace)

Star Dream Paper from Macro’s Paper

Sequins from Simon Says Stamps

Stencils from MemoryBox

Small Snowflake Stamp: Rubber Stamp Tapestry

Delicata Ink in Shimmering Silver

Mat Silver Foil paper from Hollos

IN HIS HANDS,

QP

Stamper’s Christmas Card

You know when you have to send cards to Master Crafters you have to come hard or stay at home (from my bid whist playing days). I had to come up with a card I hoped would make their jaws drop. I hope I did, here it is.

 

It is a shadow box card. I used a 4 step stamp from Kitchen Sink Stamps; a Memorybox Die Frosty Wreath and another border die from Memorybox to get all the flakes.

 

I cut the opening with a Spellbinders die and cut a border for the opening with another size from the same circle set out of silver mirror paper.  I added some glitter snow to ground the tree and a flat back gem as a tree topper. The greeting stamp is Hero Art I think. I signed the back side of the card.

 

I made this one to send to some other Master Stampers

This card tucked and folded and here it is open. The stamp is by Paper Trey Ink.

I think I talked about how I made this in one of my video on YouTube.

 

In the Hands of the Creator,

 

QP

Brothers In Law

There are more women in my family but more men in my husband’s family. So cool to be able to create cards for men and so challenging as well. Each year my husband and his brothers exchange Beer at Christmas so here are the cards I made to go with the beer.

The image is called Glad Tidings and Good Beer; but I cant remember who I bought it from. I colored it with my copics and added a little sparkle. I think this will be a fine addition to the beer.

 

In the Hands of the Creator,

 

QP

2012 Christmas Roundup

I think by now you can tell I love Christmas. Here are some more cards and videos showing the cards I made

HO3 Card

Same Image another way

 

Joy Card

 

 

 

other Poinsettia die

 

Inside

 

Cut on my Zing with a Silhouette File:

 

Nativity die from Taylored Expressions

 

OOO I had Fun!

 

In the Hands of the Creator,

 

QP

Poinsettia Christmas Cards

I had a play night Saturday and I got stuck on one die  and made 3 different cards using it.

The die is Tim Holtz Tattered Poinsettia and what is so cool is that there is a matching embossing folder for it. I actually have another poinsettia die that embosses when it cuts but not with this much detail.

There are 3 sizes of flowers on the die and I joined them with a tree brad I had. I topped the brad with glitter as there had to be bling right!

 

I colored the die cuts with Stampin Up’s Cherry Cobbler and  Mellow Moss Inks.

The other embossing folder that came in the set was used to emboss the background and a Hero Arts stamp completes the outside of the card.

 

 

I used the same inks on this card but with a lighter hand.

 

And one with no color at all! The embossed border comes from a Spellbinders Card Creator die.

 

 

 

It was a fun night!

 

In the Hands of the Creator,

 

QP

Received!

I was abundantly blessed by my friends in the stamping communities both local and afar. They sent me pieces of themselves in their Christmas cards.

I wanted you to see all the layers on this one:

and one more by Pat Hobson, yes she sent me two!

I love them all!

 

QP

Long Time

Its been a couple of months since I posted anything but its not because I wasn't creating. I just didn't feel like writing. I was just going to post pictures but wanted to wait till the writing muse returned. Here are the christmas cards I sent for Christmas 2008. I used my Pazzles Inspiration to cut out the angel from Stardream paper and to cut the window in the other card

I made only a few of this last card because it was difficult to make 

but the end result was worth the effort.

 

I should have used the Inspiration to cut this semicircle top on this card but instead I used the Wizard and the Cuttlebug. What made it difficult was that you had to use the embossing rubber to cover a portion of the die so it didn't cut the whole die. 

Happy Creating in 2009,

QP