First First Frost Card

 

This is the first of five cards I made with the 

new to me First Frost stamp and die set

 by Stampin' Up! (retired)

I'll post one card each day over the next couple of weeks.

My daughter gave it to me for Christmas. 

Although I have oodles of cards already made,

I just had to play with this pretty set :) 

All supplies used 

were bought from Stampin' Up! over the years.

Most are no longer available.

 

Colors:

Primrose Petals, Sage Shadow, Pistachio Pudding

I'm impressed with the way the flowers 

inked up and stamped. They look just like this, 

a multi-tonal water colored sort of look, 

by simply stamping on a single color ink pad. 

Other Supplies:

sentiment from Floral Frames

3D Tufted Embossing Folder

sequins

dimensionals

Thanks for looking =) 

This card was chosen as a CAS Favorite at 

Splitcoaststampers !

You Warm My Heart Card

My first card of 2021!

I received this sweet stamp image as a Christmas gift

and just had to put her to use for a Thank You card 

to mail to the gift giver :) 

Snow Day by Pure Innocence for My Favorite Things.

For the top stitched edge panel 

I moved the piece of card stock after running

it though the stitched edge die. It was shorter 

than the die. After I ran it through, I moved 

the card stock down to the bottom edge and

ran it through again. Sometimes this technique

works really well as it did on this card and 

other times the stitches don't line up so well. 

I water colored the image with inks from my Classic 

Stampin' Up! dye ink pads using an aqua painter.   

I added a little bit of Stickles diamonds glitter glue

to the snowballs.

The snow covered background was die cut and stamped

with old supplies from Stampin' Up!  

I used shimmer paper for the ground. 

The colors are also from SU!

Baja Breeze, Pink Pirouette, Almost Amethyst

The teeny tiny snowflake is actually the part 

cut out from a border edge punch. 

Rhinestone center. 

Thanks for looking =)

 

Cards I Received

 

CAS Peppermint Holidays Card

ANOTHER simple Christmas card made with 

scraps of that peppermint stripe patterned paper!

I think I made 6 cards with that one piece of 

12 x 12 paper this year. 

Scraps of red and white card stock layered over it

with "faux brads" on the ends. Done!

It was nice and flat for mailing, too.

That's the last Christmas card for this year.

Thanks for looking =) 

 

Plaid Season's Greetings Card

One of the two last minute Christmas cards

that I made this year. The final one will

be shared tomorrow, then that is it. 

I used some scraps on this card.

It's also another simple enough one that is flat.

The holly is dry embossed with red glossy craft paint

and white gel pen accents.

The rubber stamp image was from Stampin' Up!

Patterned paper, unknown

Thanks for looking =)

 

Christmas Wishes

 

image created with A Christmas Carol digi bundle by

Kimeric Kreations

CAS Santa Card

 

Another pretty quick card and using up some scraps.

The image was water colored with inks from my Stampin' Up! classic ink pads. It's an old one from Stampin' Up!, the set name is A Holiday Hello. A white gel pen was used to fill in the polka dots on his suit.

I cut a teeny pompom in half to trim his hat and added a red rhinestone to the holly on the hat brim.

A scrap of patterned paper and polka dot grosgrain ribbon are layered behind the die cut circles.

Thanks for looking, Merry Christmas !

Die Cut & Pieced Ornaments Cards

 

These were time consuming, but I love the look!

I die cut several colors of "holographic" papers and 

pieced them into a silver ornament die cut.

A few rhinestone embellishments, a piece of ribbon,

die cut pine branches over an embossed background

complete the cards.

Other than the "holographic" papers and rhinestones,

everything else came from Stampin' Up!

Thanks for looking, Merry Christmas!

Season's Greetings Card

 

Here is a more elegant Christmas card,

yet still pretty easy to make.

Images are from Stampin' Up! and heat embossed gold.

Navy, Vanilla and Gold card stocks.

Navy organdy ribbon and gold cord.

 Embossing folder from Sizzix.

 Thanks for looking, Merry Christmas!

Snow Much Fun Christmas Wishes Card

 

An appropriate Christmas Card to share today, the first day of winter :)

The images are oldies from Stampin' Up (Snow Much Fun), water colored using ink from my classic dye ink Stampin' Pads and an aquapainter.

I added teeny tiny pompoms for snowballs.

The sentiment tag has a scrap of chipboard behind it to give it some dimension and a piece of baker's twine.

Stickles diamonds glitter glue is spread on the "ground". 

We are going to have clear skies tonight to look at the conjuncture of Saturn and Jupiter. I'm looking forward to it and hope you can catch a glimpse of it, too.

Thanks for looking!