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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
One of my regular customers needed a birthday card for her daughter. Her daughter loves to cook. So I decided to do a recipe theme. There weren’t a lot of ideals out there and mostly were for birthday invitations. So I took some bits and pieces from some cards on the internet then added my own ingredients (ideals came from the mom on how they celebrate birthdays) to make a personalized birthday card!
The “lift category” this month in the April Inspirational Card Challenge @ scrapbook.com is to lift Cardiographer!! She is one of my favorites and is a friend of mine. She loves Doodlebug (so do I…friendship at first sight!) and she ROCKS it!! I keep telling her she needs to try out for their design team! Even though I did not “lift” a card of hers I “lifted” the use of Doodlebug which doesn’t count for the challenge but I least made a cute card!! Her cards are cuter but I tried! I fussy cut the presents out of some paper. And used a die cut to make the balloons. The recipe card was from Deedee’s Digis (no longer in business but she has some freebies on her site Papercraft Romance.)
SUPPLIES:
Digital Image: Recipe Card from Deedee’s Digis (new site with some freebies http://papercraftromance.com/
Cardstock: Bazzill (Bubblegum,)
Patterned Paper: Doodlebug (Sugar Shoppe), (Birthday Girl on the pink dotted balloon)
Accents/Tools: Paper Smooches Balloon dies, EK Success 1/16 pop dots, black string
I’m always on the lookout for cute Beagle’s and Basset Hounds because there is a guy at work that has a standing order for his mom and aunt to get a card every holiday and birthday with a Beagle or Basset Hound on it. A lot of the time he finds photos on the internet and sends them to me so I can’t post them on my blog but this year his Aunt got a card made with a new digital stamp, Christmas Sled, from Imagine That!…Digis by Kris.
I was in such a hurry to get his order done I was only able to take a crappy photo of the original just to document what I made her this year (have to keep a record so I don’t duplicate over the years!) So I cut the left over paper so I could make another one and ended up cutting it for a rectangle card even though the original was a 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 square card. I decided to make it any way and then make a square one too! So now I have a couple cards ready for next years craft sale!
Well I asked my husband to color it up for me if he had time and he said he would. Work did not cooperate with my needing his photoshop skills and they had him working extra so he has it mostly done but not completely. So I wasn’t going to worry about playing this month and would just buy next month’s image. But then I needed a birthday card for my brother who turns 37 on the 7th so I thought if I did the packages and took the bear off then it could be a birthday card! And that is how my card came about!
Now I did two versions and can’t decide which one I like better!! I wanted to do paper piercing since the circle needed something but I forgot to pierce the holes before attaching it to the orange so I decided to do dots instead! Then I wanted my brothers more flat so I can mail it Saturday and I ran out of green brads so I went with stars! Which do you like better?
We do Christmas in July at the retirement home during July so we usually make Christmas cards. This year I decided I was going to try to use up supplies I had on hand. All the smaller pieces came from the over flowing scrap drawers. I also went more CAS then I normally do. They made them yesterday and seemed to enjoy it!
All these were entered into the July Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – theme category: Christmas.
I was inspired by Unscripted Sketches #259 but then it took on a life of its own.
SUPPLIES:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper & Presents: Recollections (Bright and Jolly Paper Pad)
Accents/Tools: cutter bee scissors, computer
I used the Sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #128 for inspiration.
SUPPLIES:
Image: cut from paper – The Paper Studio (Winter Wonderland)
Cardstock: The Paper Studio (kraft), Bazzill
Patterned Paper: The Paper Studio (Winter Wonderland)
Accents/Tools: Xyron x
SUPPLIES:
Images: patterned paper – The Paper Studio (Winter Wonderland)
Cardstock: Bazzill (Jacaranda, Patch, Vanilla)
Accents/Tools: EK Success Circle punches (3/4, 7/8)
Deedee’s Digis is sponsoring Not Just Cards Challenge which is Anything Goes challenge. It is a pretty cool challenge blog because you can do cards or any type of craft project. I ran out of time and needed a birthday card for my brother so I made a traditional card. I used Sketch Saturday #342 as my inspiration.
So I was struggling with the sketches in the Sept Card Sketch Challenge as they were not coming to me. I’m not a CAS card person so I was struggling this month. While I was waking up Wednesday morning this ideal came to me for Sketch #2. Instead of a banner I ripped the paper and instead of the stars I put an image there. This card ended up being CAS and I love it. I used sparkle paper from Doodlebug to represent snow and shiny paper underneath to represent the compressed snow! Hope it makes sense as to the scene I was setting!
I used the outline and colored versions of this digital stamp. I wanted presents on the sleigh but the colored version had them in pink and black and that wasn’t working for my Christmas card. I used the outline version and colored the presents in Photoshop. The girl was beautiful dressed for Christmas in one of the pre-colored images so I just cut her out and glued her on top of the outline version!
CHALLENGES:
1) September Card Sketch Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – Sketch #2 – originally Seize the Sketch #11
2) Christmas Card Challenges #41 – Think Skinny. The path in the snow is skinny!
3) Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge – Choose R or E or D. You need to use something to that begins with the letter “R” or “E” or “D” or you could use more than 1
when you create your project. Examples could include:
R – Ribbon, Red, Rudoulph
E – Embossing
D – Diecut
I used Red
4) Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #125 – Transportation. Use some type of vehicle or transportation on your Christmas card. I used a sled.
SUPPLIES:
Digital Image: Snowbaby Love Color and Outline @ Diane’s Daydream Designs
Cardstock: Bazzill (Lava)
White glitter paper – Doodlebug
Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on Canon Inkjet Printer
Accents/Tools: pop dots, Cutter bee scissors
So the Digi of the Month at DeeDee’s Digital, So Cool, is this adorable penguin in a Bathtub…
but I could not figure out a card using it the way it was so I started thinking Christmas card. Well, after I saw Pippa’s totally cool card that she entered I wish I would have thought tropical drinks! But instead of copying Pippa I decided to stick to my Christmas ideal. I had my husband put the santa hat from Doodle Pantry’s Santa Accessories Digital Stamp on the penguin. I struggled with coming up with a card for several hours. During that struggle I created this card but didn’t like the penguin on it (didn’t say Christmas to me) so I stuck a Mickey sticker and turned it into a birthday card.
2) Seize the Birthday – Create a Birthday and use the topping of all yellow if you want. I did not use the topping.
So I decided I needed more color so I cut out the presents and pop dotted them in front of the penguin. The presents are also from the Santa Accessories Digital Image.
After finding the right paper and using the sketch from MOJO Monday #337 I finally liked it!! I’m not sure Deedee meant for me to change her digi completely but I couldn’t help it!
2) ABC Christmas Challenge – O for Obscured – I covered up the ice cubes in the original design and placed presents over them. (I hope that is what you were looking for)
One of the men in the church asked me to make his granddaughter and grandson a birthday card. I think this is the second year in a row I have made their cards…kind of exciting to me! They are in their 20’s and I believe just graduated from college.
Stamps: CDSABSimpleGifts at Clearly Digi Stamps
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper: Pebbles (Hip Hip Horray)
Inks: Canon ink jet printer
Accents/Tools: ribbon, pop dots
Techniques: change the color of the presents in photoshop
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