IT'S BEEN A WHILE...

Hello all-

As we all know life keeps us busy.

Because all is good we are dealing with other health issues I don't care to discuss right now but is the reason why it took me a while to craft and post.

However, I am sharing with you today my 2017 Christmas Cards.

My inspiration was taken from Pinterest but I couldn't recreate the beauty of the original not that I ever want to. This is my take on it.

Christmas Cards

2017

4" Round Card

I used more than a few die cuts and took me a while to cut and build the prototype.

-Let's start with the Cricut images-

The circle base is from the Cricut cartridge 'Wild Card', Cricut Access #m2fa54.

The circles are from the 'Shapes' feature in Design Space. Cut at 4" and 3-3/4" also to get the ring around.

The candles are from the 'Christmas' cart, Cricut Access #m40ade.

Some of the foliage (green in this card) is from 'Storybook', Cricut Access #m34132 and the banner strips are from 'Bits and Pieces', Cricut Access #mfb1ff.

The font is called 'Wildflower'. I didn't know about it but it showed up in the fonts area and I was able to use it. I am assuming

it is a Free font or was Free at the time I used it.

I liked it very much and it wrote beautifully.

-The rest of the die cuts-

Cottage Cutz: wreath, tiny bow, and the neck applique.

Impression Obsession: the tiny red flowers (reminded me of poinsettias).

Martha Stewart paper punch: the red branch up on top.

Ek Success paper punch: the star on the foliage.

The embossing was done with a Tim Holtz embossing folder called 'Collage and Notebook'.

The sentiment is from Joy Clair stamps and it was embossed using a gold embossing powder, which it went array as I can see in the pics but not in real life, :). Oh well!

For those who are interested...here is the link for my inspiration. It takes you to the post itself.

As I mentioned before, I found it on Pinterest first.

-Absolutely Gorgeous- in my opinion, that is.

Hope you enjoy it and this blogger won't take offense I linked her project.

Before I finish here I am taking the moment to wish you all:

a 

 'Happy Holidays', 'Merry Christmas' and or 'Happy Hannukah'

Better do it now in case life continues to surprise me and I can't come back for a bit.

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Take care you all!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS DIY HOLIDAY CARDS

Hello all, today I am showing you how I made this set of Christmas Cards.
So far I've made 6 of them and I still have a few more to go.
I used cardstock from the Basis Collection (red) and Pop Tones (green). The white is a linen cardstock called Solar White and the brown used on the deer is from a Core-dinations pack.

The card bases or frames were cut using the Fancy Frames Cricut cartridge and My World for the Christmas trees. (Please, do not mind the trees to the left, most of the time I choose die cuts I end up not using).  I cut a few bases, embossed the background, did some distressed inking and stamped some snowflakes and stamped a design on the trees.

I wanted some snow banks behind the deer and I found a cute one in the Give a Hoot cart. I spread some Tombow liquid glue with my fingers on the surface (I should have used a cheapy brush) and then covered with Diamond Dust. 

The deer I die cut with a Cottage Cutz die. 

I glued the tree to the background using Tombow again and added some sequins too. I added the snow bank and the deer and then I decided to cut some acetate and use it as windows for some of the cards. The green card above is one of them. To attach the acetate I chose score tape.

 I do not know which one I like the most. I think they both came out very nice.

(This red one has no acetate on the front).

The greeting is from a Joy Clair stamp and its digital die. 

A few more pics.

And, that is all for today. 

I hope you were able to get some ideas for your holiday cards and or decorations.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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