My Basic Christmas card for 2010

With what I have titled this posting you would think that I had a basic card every year. To be honest this is the first year I have attempted to make a "batch" of the same card to send out at Christmas. I just hope that I haven't bitten off more than I can chew!

This is the card that I came up with. It fits in a standard #10 envelope, for ease of postage. It also allows me lots of room inside the card for writing a personal message.  The stamp I used is from Hero Arts. I stamped it with green ink from a set of Color Box Petal Point called Pageant. The bough has been stamped off set on 1 3/4" squares. I coloured the cones with Prismas and OMS. The stamped squares were mounted on red  2" C/S squares. Once three of these were mounted on the card I used my newly acquired Stamp-a-ma-jig to place the Merry Christmas.  The final touch, which doesn't show-up at all in this scan, it a few dots of Stardust Stickles to give the idea of a little snow on the pine cones and and star in the sentiment.
I have 5 cards completed and all the squares stamped and coloured. So now I just have to get the rest of the assembly done.  I really hope to get them completed by this week-end.  Then I can get going on some of the other individual cards and projects I have in mind. 
Gosh here it is the end of November, I better get busy as it is soon going to be too late and I can't burn the midnight oil on these the way I use to.
edit added Dec 2, 2010

Here is of picture of 4 more that I got finished last night.


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Sandy

6 Year Old

I have a favourite little buddy who is turning 6 years old next week. His is having his "Friends" party on Saturday.

This is the card I made to accompany the book I am giving him.

The idea for this card came from a video by Gina K. on Stamp TV. I used my Nesties to create the ovals and embossed the raised frame part with the CB  Number Collage folder.  The 6 was made using the Oliva alphabet set and the stamps are from a SU set I purchased from a friend. Sorry, I don't have the name of the set. The DP on the inside oval is some I had in my stash that co-ordinated with the pre-cut card base I had.


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Sandy

The first Christmas Cards of 2010

Stickers & Stickles

A few weeks ago M-J and I visited a great store in Didsbury called Rose's Stuff. They carry all sorts of stamps, cardmaking and scrapping supplies. While there I picked up some fabulous "Stickeroos" by Penny Black. They are something I had not seen or tried before.  Using one of the sets I started my Christmas cards for 2010. Talk about an easy way to create cards. I just had to mount the images on the green and red C/S. Then using some pre-cut ivory A2 card bases they almost done.I added a few drops of Star Dust Stickles in appropriate places and that it.

How easy was that!

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Sandy



Birthday card for my Nephew

This week I made a Birthday card for my nephew. I won't say how old he is as that would be telling. Just  suffice to say he is old enough that we can reminisce about "when he was little".

I always struggle with makng male adult cards. This time I was up at M-J's and so I was able to use some of her stamps. Always helpful for sure!
I had seen the idea of using Nesties to make a shaped card. So with that idea along with the stamp of the tree with the single bird flying in the corner and the "one of a kind" sentiment, it came together into this card that expresses exactly what I wanted to say without getting "mushy"

Chris and I went out for breakfast this morning and had a great time catching up.  It was great to just spend some one on one time with him!

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Sandy

Two cards for two very different occasions

Last week I needed two cards. The first is a Birthday card for a wonderful neighbour of mine who was turning 92 years young.

I used the purse idea that I got from Iona, a cardmaking friend from Scotland. I just realized as I'm writing this post that the lady receiving this card is from Scotland as well.  Now that seems so very appropriate.

The upper flap of the purse has been embossed with a CB folder that M-J had. Sorry I can't remember the name.  The edge of the flap was cut using one of her Nesties as a template.

The second one is another birthday card. This one I am sending with a young lady who is leaving today for N. Africa for a one year mission. I have known her since she was 6 or 7 years old and have watched as she has grown into the wonderful woman she is today.  We have been "Scrabble Buddies" on the computer for several years. Hence the theme for the card. We have been requested to keep all of the communications that we have with her in this next year very generic. Which means not mentioning religion etc.  I was at a family dinner for her on Saturday where we celebrated her birthday which is later this month as well as giving her all our blessings and good wishes for what is going to be a very exciting year for her.

So that's what I made last week.
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Sandy

Autumn Theme's

I have been challenged this week to work on cards with an Fall/Autumn theme.

The first card is one where I created my own background using a leaf stamp that I painted on with several colours of watercolour pearlescent/metallic paints and then stamped on white CS. This is a technique that I saw done  by Jennifer McQuire on a Hero Arts video. It is something that looked a lot easier than I found it. With a little practise I got a couple of usable card fronts. The words are from the CB Autumn Type embossing folder. Unfortunately, this scan doesn't show all the colours in the background. There really are browns and coppers which aren't coming through in the picture.

The second card used the same Autumn Type embossing folder. This time I used copper paint to highlight all of the embossing. Then I mounted it on dark brown CS. I'm going to use this card to enclose a letter in. This will make me get at it written quickly as  I am a real procrastinator when it comes to letter writing.

Both these cards were a bit of a challenge for me as I discovered that fall colours are not my favourites to work with. However, it is good to work outside your comfort zone sometimes, isn't it?

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Sandy

Productive Weekend

This weekend I enjoyed myself getting a couple of cards put together. For me these days two cards produced is a fantastic feeling!
The first is one that I will be sending out for a "Mingle" on one of my Yahoo groups.

The theme for this mingle was "a square card". So this one measures 4 1/2" square. I will be able fit it into an A2 envelope and then can avoid having to pay the extra postage for an off size envelope. Yes, my heritage is Scottish! However, I was really surprised at what a cute little card this size is.

I used the Snow Dots CB embossing folder. The verse that is stamped on the inside is one that talks about the unique beauty of each friend. The same way each snowflake is different, so are our friends.
Honest I made this card before I heard the weather forecast for this Thursday! We can only hope that it is just a cruel joke that they are saying we going to have some of the "white stuff", say it isn't so!

The second card is one that I made for my cousin who is recovering from surgery.
I went back to one of my favourite CB embossing folders these days... Jules Jewels. Then I used the butterfly die cuts to embellish it. The inside I have just stamped with three butterflies  near the top and the saying "something special". This left me with plenty of room to write my own personal wishes for a speedy recovery.



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Sandy