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

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

Birthday Cards X 3

Update: My dad died 4/15/2012; I'm so glad I went home for his last birthday. I thank God for 95 years and a peaceful transition.

The March Madness for me is all about Birthdays. I have 6 during the month and me that’s a full month. 2 family members and 4 friends. I made these cards for 2 of my friends and for my dad, who turned 95 this year.

We celebrated the day by going to church and then gathering at his house for dinner.
Masculine cards are not my forte so since my dad is an aviate gardener I did a floral card.

I came up with this idea while attending my first ever crop and had to use what I had on hand.
I chose a couple of Memory Box dies Primula Blooms and Estate Fence. The sun is just a circle punch and the stamp is my Paper Trey Ink.


for my girls I used to images from an artist named Robert Jackson.
You can see his work here.

The paper is die cut with an Edger die from Paper Trey Ink.
I colored this Lady from Robert Jackson’s  Sunday Hat series with my copics.
Her skin is done with E00, E02 and E04.
For the hat and dress I used YR20, YR21, YR23 and YR0000.
Her hair has W5, W7, W9 and YR20.
To add some depth to the shadows I added BV00 here and there.
For the dotted halo I used G12 and BG13. I started with DCWV Designer Paper in mind.
Here’s  close up. I added Viva Décor Glitter Liner in Gold (included on the flowers) and some IAMROSES flowers to finish her off.



Here is the other card also using an image from the Hat series.
Her skin is colored with the same Copic combination E00, E02 and E04.
Hat and Blazer are BG10, BG11, BG13 and BG15.
Hair: C2, C3, C5, C7 and C9.
Halo: YR21, YR23 and YR4
Shadow: BV00
Glitter Liner in Gold




I used the same stamps on both from Paper Trey Ink!

In the Hands of the Creator,

QP

Something I did

I got one of the dies from the new Sizzix Movers and Shapers set. I did not spend the $30plus on the whole system but just bought one of the interchangeable dies. I made it work in my Cuttlebug and have ordered some more. The big background stamp is by Hero Arts. Below I turned the die cut into a frame. I cut the card into the shape of a house and sent it to a friend who just moved.

 

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