Santa Christmas Card

Hello crafty friends!

I know it's not even Halloween yet, but

if you're like me, you have a bunch of Christmas

cards to make.  This is just a little reminder

that you might want to start early.

This isn't what I'm making to send out to 

my family and friends, I'll show you those 

closer to Christmas.

I happened to find this Santa image in my 

stash of colored images and thought I'd make it 

into a card.

For the background panel, I laid down strips

of double sided tape, peeled off the backing,

then added red flocking to it.

One quick and easy card done.

I'm sure that image took a while to color and

fussy cut, but since I already had it done in my 

stash, it came together very quickly.

Now just to get the rest of my Christmas cards

finished, but at least I have them started.

Deciding on a design is usually my hardest 

part of making my cards.

How about you?

Do you make your Christmas cards?

How many do you make?
I make about 60.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you have been inspired in some way.

Come again soon.

Until then,

get to work on those 

Christmas cards.

 

Give Thanks

Hello all!

Today I have a fun technique to show you and 

a couple cards I made using it

I started by covering a piece of card stock with 

double sided tape.

Here you can see where I have removed the top half of 

the release paper and still have 2 pieces covered.

I had chosen 4 different fall colors and cut strips of

card stock in different widths.

Once I removed all the release papers, I started by laying

down one of the strips on an angle.

I then laid down more of the strips.

I decided to follow a pattern with the colors and 

continued applying the strips until the entire piece of 

card stock was covered.

And at this point, my camera died.

So I will have to explain the rest without pictures,

but I think you'll understand what I did when you look at

the finished cards.

Once the card stock was covered, I turned it over and

trimmed the extras off the edges.

I then used a die to cut out the pumpkin with orange

patterned paper and embossed it with a matching 

embossing folder.

I did the same thing with a piece of green paper,

then I cut the stem and leaf off and glued it to the 

pumpkin.

I also used Distress Inks to add a bit of shading and

highlighting to the pumpkin and the leaf.

Then I used the same die to cut the pumpkin out of the 

center of the striped piece.

I used the same technique with the leaf die.

I used foam tape to adhere the striped panel to the card

base.  I then put glue on the back of the pumpkin and leaf

and glued them to the card bases through the die cut opening

on the striped panel.

Here you can see from the side that the leaf is sitting 

down inside the die cut space.

I stamped the

"Give thanks"

onto a coordinating color with

Brown Color Box Chalk Ink

and fussy cut it and adhered it over the

pumpkin and leaf with foam tape.

The give thanks is part of the 

Give thanks stamp (#34109) from Biblical Impressions

The entire sentiment reads

"Give thanks 

to the Lord"

I masked off the part of the sentiment

that I didn't want and stamped the part I needed.

I love how these 2 cards turned out,

I think they will make great Thanksgiving cards.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you will give this technique a try.

You can use any kind of paper to make the stripes,

plain colors or patterned papers, you'll be surprised

how easy it is and how great it turns out.

Come again soon,

until then have some fun trying something new.

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