Kris @ Imagine That Digistamp started the Progressive Challenge back up. What that means is she posted an image this month and if you make a project with it and link it to the challenge then you will get December’s Image FREE!
My last Christmas Order wasn’t due until Jan 12th so I was able to work on them the beginning of the month.
I couldn’t find Christmas Panda images that fit in my cuteness category….I’m probably going to have to break down and buy some clear stamps! So I just saw some Panda stickers in my stash the other day so I thought I would look at them and see if I could make them into a Christmas Card. Well this card design just came to me so I went with it. I was pretty excited how it turned out!
Thank you Trek for my Tim Holtz christmas word dies!!
SUPPLIES: Panda Sticker: The Paper Studio Cardstock: Bazzill (Raven, Bazzill Green, white, Bazzill Red) Patterned Paper: The Paper Studio Accents/Tools: ribbon, Tim Holtz Script Holiday Words thinlits dies,
This is for one of the granddaughters that likes polar bears. I used sketch #1 from the Jan Card Sketch Challenge.
Jan Inspirational Card Challenge – cold – polar bears live in the cold and there is snow embossed background. He also must be cold as he has a hat and scarf on!
SUPPLIES: Digital Stamp: Polar Bear Red @ Studio Cin Co Etsy store Cardstock: Bazzill (Cranapple dark, Rain Forest, White) Patterned Paper: Simple Stories (Handmade Holidays) Ink: pre-colored digital image printed on Canon Inkjet Printer Accents/Tools: Carta Bella Embossing folder – snow flurries, Cricut, Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge
This was the card for the lady’s SIL. She wanted a card that told him what a wonderful father and SIL he was. When I bought the paper in Branson and it had all these cute photo cards she picked one for SIL and one for her daughter (see next card). I used Nov Card Sketch #5 as my inspiration (original Tuesday Morning Sketch #427).
SUPPLIES: Cardstock: Bazzill (Raven) Patterned Paper: Echo Park (A Perfect Christmas) Accents/Tools: Snowflake brad
This was the card for the lady’s daughter. She wanted a card that told her what a wonderful daughter she was. When I bought the paper in Branson and it had all these cute photo cards she picked one for SIL (see previous card) and one for her daughter. I used Jan Card Sketch #1 as my inspiration. I just moved the paper over to the left because I wanted more of it to show and added epoxy dots instead of a sentiment. Jan Inspiration Card Challenge – Theme – Cold – snow, snowman, snowflakesSUPPLIES: Cardstock: Bazzill (Red, white) Patterned Paper: Echo Park (A Perfect Christmas) Accents/Tools: Queen & Co epoxy dots, Darice Embossing Folder
A lady contacted me and stated she was going to buy her kids seasons passes to Wonders of Wildlife (Bass Pro) but didn’t have any cool way to present it to the kids. She said she was disappointed that Bass Pro didn’t have any cards to do this. So she requested one from me! She wanted it to be from Santa to the kids. I came up with the ideal of Santa checking his list and finding out the family was nice so he would give them a season pass. So I sent the ideal to my girlfriend who is amazing with coming up with sentiments.
On the inside I printed off a photo of W.O.W. and made it a pocket so the season pass would go on a tag that could be pulled out.
So I was telling my massage therapist about this card and he said oh make me one I want to take it my friend that works at Bass Pro. So who know maybe Bass Pro will “copy” my ideal!
While I was looking for images on the internet I came across this digital stamp/svg file at Scarlett Rose Designs and thought it would be perfect for the envelope to put the card in. I printed their names on the front.
SUPPLIES: Digital Stamp/SVG file: Merry Christmas Santa @ Miss Kate Cuttables and Rudolph Express @ Scarlett Rose Designs Cardstock: Bazzill Accents/Tools: EK Success dotted scallop punch, EK Success 1/16 pop dots, Xyron X
I had a request for a guitar themed Christmas card. I found this SVG/digital stamp file. The original has the “as” partial on the guitar. Any way the way the guitar was in my cutting program there were way to many little pieces. So I asked my husband to separate guitar so I could just print it as one piece and add it to the cut out letters. Since all those letters were cut on the cricut I only made one card. If I can figure out how to do differently I make more!
SUPPLIES: Digital Stamp/SVG file: Rockin Around the Christmas Tree from Scarlett Rose Designs Cardstock: Bazzill (Raven, Classic Yellowgreen, Bazzill Red) Accents/Tools: Xyron X, EK Success 1/16 pop dots
I had this image on my desk with buttons that I pulled for it earlier in the year but never made a card with it. I needed a card for a regular customer so I thought this image would work perfectly. This image is from a paper pack I bought a couple years ago. It has several journal cards with images on them. I ended up using several this year to make quick cards. I used Freshly Made Sketches #268 for my inspiration.
My Christmas stash is gone so needed to make some Christmas cards. When I saw this FREE image I thought it would make super cute cards and I have a friend that would love it! And I think my step-MIL will like this one too! One of my regulars needed a card for a friend of his and he didn’t have anything in mind. So I thought this would work. I sent him a photo and his response was “can I have that one for my mom instead!” He said she loves Cardinals. So then I had to think of another card for his friend (see button Christmas tree). I added stickles to the snowflakes and snow mounds but the snowflake sparkle didn’t show up very well. I used this card from Taylored Expressions as my inspiration.
CHALLENGES: 1) December Inspirational Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – Lift Category – lift a card from Taylored Expressions blog or Pinterest. 2) December Scraplift your Favorites @ Scrapbook.com – Any Favorite. You can lift a favorite layout, a favorite card, a favorite sketch, a favorite project or whatever your favorites may be. It can be a favorite from anywhere (Pinterest, blog, scrapbook.com, etc).
Supplies: Digital Stamp: Warm Winter Snow @ Free Dearie Dolls Digi Stamps (she has three versions with and without snow) My husband then worked his magic and made it a color version with no snow. Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on Canon Inkjet Printer Cardstock: Bazzill (bazzill red, white, raven) Patterned Paper: The Paper Studio (Plaid Tidings) Accents/Tools: Darice snowflake embossing folder, Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders, Frosted Lace Stickles, EK Success 1/16 pop dots.
So Tuesday after my root canal I decided to clean up a pile on my craft room floor. In doing so I made this card. When trying to come up with ideals last month if I saw a sketch that sparked an ideal I set it aside with the product that I thought would work with it. This was one of those so I made it instead of putting the stuff away. The JOY was actually on a journaling card that came with the paper pack but the patterned paper it was on was not clicking for me. So I cut the JOY out and put it on solid paper and liked it a lot better. The sketch that inspired this card was Try Stampin’ on Tuesday #289. I turned the sketch on it’s side.
Oh what fun it is to ride in the jeep with you on Christmas Day!!
I made this card for my husband. He is a jeep guy and as soon as I saw this digi at JW Illustrations I knew it would be perfect for him. I used Digi Sketch Challenge (8/18/14) as my inspiration. I used Doodlebug Scraps I had. I did cut out the digi to pop dot it to give it dimension.
CHALLENGES: 1) Dec Inspirational Card Challenge – theme – Christmas
SUPPLIES: Digital Image: Christmas Jeep @ JW Illustrations Cardstock: Bazzill (bazzill green, lava), American Crafts (cricket) Patterned Paper: Doodlebug (Cheerfully Christmas) Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on Canon Inkjet Printer Accents/Tools: EK Success 1/16 pop dots, white brads
A lady at work has an elderly friend that loves penguins. So this is the 2nd year she has requested a box card set to give her friend as a gift (then her friend will have 5 cards to hand out next year). I make the cards flat so it is easier for her mail. I used Tuesday Morning Sketches #328 as my inspiration. She gets 5 cards and 5 envelopes in the handmade box (see next photo).
CHALLENGES: 1) December Inspirational Card Challenge – Bonus – something that begins with “s” or “t” – toboggan sled, snowflakes, scarfs, stocking hat, snow, sledding
SUPPLIES: Digital Image: Penguins Sledding @ Miss Kate Cuttables Cardstock: Bazzill (lava, white, Yosemite, Classic Yellowgreen) Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on a Canon Inkjet Printer Accents/Tools: Darice snowflake embossing folder, Flocking,
This is the box that the Christmas cards come in.
So then I make a card similar to the ones that are in the set for the lady to give her friend. I used Digi Sketch Challenge (8/18/14) as my inspiration.
CHALLENGES: 1) Dec Inspirational Card Challenge – Bonus Category – something that begins with “s” or “t” – toboggan sled, snowflakes, scarfs, stocking hat, snow, sledding
SUPPLIES: Digital Image: Penguins Sledding @ Miss Kate Cuttables Cardstock: Bazzill (lava, white, Yosemite, Classic Yellowgreen) Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on a Canon Inkjet Printer Accents/Tools: Darice snowflake embossing folder, Flocking, blue brads (Paper Studio)
So this was for one of the granddaughters of the lady at work. She requested an owl as that is what the granddaughter is into. I had been wanting to make a stair step card with these owls from Daydream Designs (no longer in business). I didn’t get the card done I wanted to make but I did use the owl! I saw MOJOMonday #477 sketch and thought it would work but was trying to figure out what to put in the corner. They are small but there are candy canes on the owls belly. So I went looking through my Cricut cartridges and found some that were perfect on the Christmas Cheer cartridge.
CHALLENGES: 1) December Inspirational Card Challenge – Bonus Category – have items that start with an “s” or a “t”. Stripes, swirls, santa hat, scarf
SUPPLIES: Digital Image: Cool Friends – Diane’s Daydream Designs (out of business) Cardstock: Bazzill (lava, piglet, white, cinder), American Crafts (cricket) Inks: pre-colored digital stamp printed on a Canon Inkjet Printer Accents/Tools: Taylored Expressions Diagonal Stripe embossing folder, Sizzix swirls & squares in ovals set embossing folder, Cricut, Christmas Cheer Cricut cartridge, EK Success 1/16 pop dots, Xyron X
For the ladies granddaughter who loves Panda’s. I took a panda image from Deedee’s Digis and paired it with a santa hat and present from Santa’s Accessories at Doodle Pantry. Well, my husband combined them for me in Photoshop! I got my inspiration from Atlantic Hearts Sketch #188. I used some very old (2005) Doodlebug paper!
CHALLENGES: 1) December Inspirational Card Challenge – theme – Christmas
SUPPLIES: Digital Image: Panda Pride by Deedee’s Digis (she currently post some of her digis at Paper Craft Romance), Santa Accessories @ Doodle Pantry Cardstock: Bazzill (lava, Bazzill Green), American Crafts cardstock (cricket) Patterned Paper: Doodlebug (Cheerfully Christmas type) Inks; pre-colored digital image printed on a Canon Inkjet Printer Accents/Tools: white brads (paper studio), Darice embossing folder
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