Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #24

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Welcome to Day 24 of my Christmas Card Series. Today's card is very simple and almost like a one layer card. I said almost because in the end I can't help but put some layers here and there.

Here's how it looks like:

I first cut a piece of 4 1/4" x 11" Neenah Solar White cardstock, scored and folded it in half for my card base. I then stamped the Santa and dog from Paper Smooches Santa Paws stamps set in some Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored them in with Copics.

I then made some masks for the Santa and dog using some post-it tape. I masked off the Santa, dog and the bottom part of the card before blending some VersaColor Polar Blue pigment ink all over the card. I peeled off the masks and added some Clear Wink of Stella Glitter to the white areas of Santa's hat, beard and clothes. I also added the glitter to the dog's hat and dog bone. I adhered some googly eyes to the Santa and dog.

I die cut the word "Happy" using Simon Says Stamp Happy die from some pattern paper thrice and stacked all of them together for added dimension. I adhered it to the top right corner before stamping the word "Christmas" in Versafine Onyx Black ink under it. I finished the card off by stamping some paw prints in Onyx Black ink around the die cut word and rounded all the corners with We Are Memory Keepers 1/2" Corner Chomper.

That's all for the update today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for the last card of this year's Christmas Series. A big thanks to all those who have been following this series.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #23

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Welcome to Day 23 of my Christmas Card Series. Sorry that today's post is up a little bit late as I was busy with some other stuff. 

Here's a look at today's card. I started out without a plan and just went with the flow. I wasn't too sure if I like the card so I'll let you be the judge of it.

I first cut a piece of 4 1/4" x 11" Neenah Solar White cardstock, scored and folded it in half for my card base. I then cut a piece of 4" x 5 1/4" red cardstock and adhered it to the card front with some glue tape. I cut another piece of 3 3/4" x 5" Neenah Solar White cardstock, applied some Versamark ink to the smaller dots embossing folder from Lifestyle Crafts and ran it through the Big Shot machine. I poured some Judikins Iridescent Sparkle embossing powder all over the Solar White piece and heat embossed it.

I die cut the tag with Stampin' Up Chalk Talk dies set from some Neenah Solar White cardstock. I stamped the bird from Stampin' Up For The Birds stamps set onto the tag in some Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it in with Copics. I made a mask for the bird and the slope from some post-it tape. I masked off the bird and the bottom part of the tag with the post-it tape and blended some Peacock Feathers Distress Ink all over the tag.

I peeled off the masks and starts to assemble the card. I adhered the Solar White piece onto the card front with some glue tape and popped the tag on top with some foam tape. I tied a bow from some ribbon and adhered it to the tag using some clear foam tape. I used some Tinsel Thickers from American Crafts to form the word "Have A" and with that my card is done.

That's all the update for today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #24.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #22

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Welcome to Day 22 of my Christmas Card Series. Today's card is inspired by one of my favorite cardmakers, Debby Hughes. You can find the card that inspires me HERE.

And here's my card:

I first cut a piece of 4 1/4" x 11" Neenah Desert Storm cardstock, scored and folded it in half for my card base. I then cut a piece of 3 3/4" x 5 1/2" Neenah Solar White cardstock and stamped the words " A Merry" in a shape like tree using Simon Says Stamp Sketched Alphabets stamps set in Versafine Olympia Green, Spanish Moss and Hero Arts Green Hills ink.

I used the solid border stamp from Simon Says Stamp Tag Sayings, inked part of it up with Versafine Vintage Sepia ink and stamped under the "tree" to make it look like a tree trunk. I stamped the star from Simon Says Stamp Lots of Stars stamps set in Hero Arts Butterbar ink on top of the "tree". I tied a bow around the card with some ribbons and adhered some red rhinestones to the "tree".

I cut a piece of 1 1/4" x 5 1/2" pattern paper and adhered it to the card front with some glue tape. I popped the Solar White piece up onto the card with some foam tape. I stamped the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Be Joyful stamps set onto a strip of red cardstock in Versafine Black Onyx ink and flagged both ends using a square punch from EK Success. I adhered the sentiment to the card using foam tape and finished off the card with some Clear Wink of Stella Glitter and Ranger Glossy Accents on the star.

That's all the update for today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #23.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #21

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Welcome to Day 21 of my Christmas Card Series. I made a suspension card for today's post. Here's how the card looks like.

I cut a piece of 4 1/4" × 11" Neenah Desert Storm cardstock, scored and folded it in half for my card base. I cut a piece of 4" × 5 1/4" Neenah Solar White cardstock and die cut a circle out in the middle.

I die cut a circle frame from some pattern paper using My Favorite Things Circle Stax One. I stamped the tree from SimonSays Stamp Merry Trees stamps set in some ColorBox Fresh Green pigment ink. I stamped the cat from Newton's Nook Holiday Mischief stamps set in some Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored them in with Copics. I then hand cut all the images out.

To assemble the card, I first adhered some strings to the back of the tree. I then adhered the circle frame to the Solar White piece. I cut a piece of music sheet pattern paper from Lawn Fawn Snow Day paper pack and adhered it to the card base before adhering the Solar White piece on top with some foam tape.

I punched some pattern paper with Martha Stewart Doily Lace border punch and adhered it to the card. Lastly, I adhered the cat image on top of the card and added some Clear Wink of Stella Glitter to the cat for some bling.

That's all the update for today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #22.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #20

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Welcome to Day 20 of my Christmas Card Series. I made another clean and simple card today.

Let's have a look at my card.

I first cut a piece of 4 1/4" × 11" Neenah Solar White cardstock, scored and folded it in half for my card base. I rounded all the corners with We Are Memory Keepers 1/4" Corner Chomper.

I die cut the journaling card and banners using Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling die from some pattern paper. I stamped the snowman from Paper Smooches Freezy Fellas stamps set in some Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I colored the snowman with Copics and die cut him out using the matching die.

I adhered the journaling card and banners onto the card front with some glue tape. I popped the snowman up with some foam tape and adhered it on top of the journaling card. I tied a bow around the bottom of the card with some jute strings.

Lastly, I stamped the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Be Joyful stamps set in some Versafine Black Onyx ink at the bottom of the card. I also added some Clear Wink of Stella Glitter and Ranger Glossy Accents to the snowman's hat, nose and buttons.

That's all the updates for today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #21.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #19

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Welcome to Day 19 of my Christmas Card Series. Initially I have planned to make 2 cards for today's post but I am unable to get it done in time so I will have at least one card up today. I made a clean and simple, one layer card for today's post. I am still not used to making cards that does not have layers to it.

Here's how my one layer CAS card looks like:

I first stamped the yeti from Lawn Fawn Yeti, Set, Go stamps set in some Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it in with Copics. I then made a mask for the yeti and cut some post-it tape to look like snow slope. I masked the yeti and the bottom part of the card with the post-it tape before sponging the masked area with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink. After sponging, I peeled off the masks carefully.

I then stamped the balloons from Simon Says Stamp Birthday Balloons stamps set in VersaMagic Pretty Petunia, Key Lime, Thatched Straw and Versacolor Old Rose, Smoke Blue ink. I drew the strings to connect the balloons to the yeti's hand using Memento Tuxedo Black Marker. I adhered the word "Merry" to the balloons using Kelly Purkey's Alphabet Stickers. I completed the sentiment by stamping the word "Christmas" from Simon Says Stamp Happy stamps set.

Lastly, I added some Clear Wink of Stella Glitter to the yeti, Ranger Star Dust Stickles to the snow slope and Ranger Glossy Accents to the alphabet stickers. I rounded the corners of the card with We Are Memory Keeper 1/2" Corner Chomper.

That's all the update for today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #20.

No updates today

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Sorry there will be no updates today because I didn't manage to make a card for today. I will try to get 2 cards up by tomorrow's post.

Thank you.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #18

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Welcome to Day 18 of my Christmas Card Series. I have been behind schedule lately and on top of that, I feel like I am running out of ideas for my card. I am just a few cards away from the end of this year's series so I need to hold out till then. Maybe I will try to breathe some fresh air into the supplies I have used for last year's series.

Anyway, let's get back to today's card.

I really love this coffee cup image from Stampin' Up Perfect Blend stamps set so I decided to make a card using this set. I cut a piece of 4 1/4" x 11" Neenah Desert Storm cardstock, scored and folded it in half for my card base.

I cut a piece of 3" x 5" ledger pattern paper and a strip of 3/4" x 5" red chevron-like pattern paper from the Lawn Fawn Snow Day paper pack. I then adhered both pieces to the card front. I stamped the coffee cup twice on some Neenah Solar White cardstock in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored them in with Copics.

I cut the cups out and adhered them onto the card front. I popped one of the cups on foam tape and the other one is adhered with some glue tape. I punched 2 hearts from some pattern paper and adhered them to the cups with foam tape. I cut a slit at the fold to tie the bow with some jute strings. I then stamped out the sentiments using Lawn Fawn Smitty's ABCs stamps set in Versafine Onyx Black ink and Hero Arts Bubblegum ink. I messed up a little at the word "Heart". I didn't clean my stamps thoroughly so there's some black ink that got transferred to the Bubblegum ink. Oopsie!!

Lastly, I put some Clear Wink of Stella Glitter onto the hearts and added some Ranger Glossy Accent on top for some sparkle and shine.

That's all for the update today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #19.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #17

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Welcome to Day 17 of my Christmas Card Series. Today's card is another shaker card. It is very simple and easy to put together.

Here's how it looks like:

I first cut a piece of 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" Neenah Desert Storm cardstock, scored and folded it in half. I cut a piece of 4" x 5 1/4" Neenah Solar White cardstock and die cut a circle from the center of the cardstock.

I then cut a piece of 3" x 3" Lawn Fawn Snow Day pattern paper and adhered it to the card base. I stamped the trees from Simon Says Stamp Be Joyful stamps set in some Simon Says Stamp Doll Pink ink and Hero Arts Green Hills ink. I hand cut the trees out and adhered them on top of the Snow Day pattern paper. I adhered some diamond shaped wood veneer beside the trees.

Next, to assemble the shaker part. I cut a piece of 3" x 3" clear acetate and adhered it behind the circle window of the Solar White piece. I die cut a circle frame from some pattern paper using My Favorite Things Circle Stax One dies and adhered it to the fron of the circle window. I put some foam tape around the Snow Day pattern paper and ensuring that there is no gaps in between before I poured in some glitters. I then adhered the Solar White piece on top of the card.

I die cut the tag from Simon Says Stamp Medium Tags die and stamped the tag border from Simon Says Stamp Tag Sayings stamps set in some Hero Arts Cup O' Joe ink. I stamped out the words using Lawn Fawn Smitty's ABCs stamps set in Doll Pink, Green Hills and Cup O' Joe. I finished off the card by adhering some sequins at the top right corner and tied a double bow with some jute strings and adhered it to the top of the tag.

That's all the update for today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #18.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #16

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Welcome to Day 16 of my Christmas Card Series. Today's card is a very simple and cute card. Let's take a look.

I cut a piece of 4 1/4" x 11" Neenah Desert Storm cardstock, scored and folded it in half for my card base. I stamped the woodgrain background from Stampin' Up! onto the card front using Simon Says Stamp Dark Chocolate ink.

I cut a piece of 4" x 5 1/4" Neenah Solar White cardstock and die cut a circle on the left hand edge of the cardstock. I then embossed the Solar White piece with Sizzix Hero Arts Dots embossing folder. I stamped the owl from Arts Impression Beanie Owl stamps set in some Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored him in with Copics. 

I hand cut the owl out and adhered some googly eyes on him. Don't you think the googly eyes make him look super adorable? His original eyes look cute too but I think with the googly eyes, it looks more interactive. I adhered the Solar White piece onto the card base with some foam tape. I then adhered the owl onto the negative space with some foam tape as well.

I stamped the sentiment from the same stamps set in Versamark ink and heat embossed it with American Crafts Gold embossing powder. I made the flag end on the sentiment piece by using a square punch before adhering it to the card with some glue tape. Lastly, I put some Clear Wink of Stella Glitter all over the owl for some added sparkle.

That's all the update for today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #17.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #15

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Welcome to Day 15 of my Christmas Card Series. I messed up my schedule big time. I am so behind schedule now so I am going to keep today's post really short.

I made a really, really simple today. Here's how it looks like.

I first prepped the card base by rounding all the corners with We Are Memory Keeper 1/2" Corner Chomper. I then stamped the wreath image from Hero Arts Special Wishes stamps set in some Versamark ink and heat embossed it with some American Crafts Gold embossing powder. I decorated the wreath with Ranger Christmas Red Stickles.

Lastly, I finished the card with a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Be Joyful stamps set. Really quick and simple card.

That's all for the update today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #16.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #14

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Welcome to Day 14 of my Christmas Card Series. Today's post is up a little late as I just came home. I made another shaker card today and here's how it looks like.

I first cut a piece of 4 1/4" x 11" Neenah Solar White cardstock, scored and folded it in half. I cut a piece of 4" x 5 1/4" light grey cardstock and then cut a 2 1/2" x 3" window in the middle of the light grey piece. I made the window pane piece by cutting 4 rectangles out from a piece of 2 3/4" x 3 1/4" Neenah Solar White cardstock. The rectangles measure 1" x 1 1/4" each.

I cut a piece of Lawn Fawn Snow Day pattern paper for the background of the shaker part. I made the Christmas tree by folding a semi circle piece of pattern paper and decorated it with pearls, Ranger Christmas Red Stickles and an asterisk wood veneer. I then assembled the card together.

I made 2 cards of the same design but the second card is a little bit more special. The inside of the card has a slider mechanism. Here's how it looks inside.

That's all for the update today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #15.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #13

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Welcome to Day 13 of my Christmas Card Series. Well, it was supposed to be yesterday but I was not feeling well so I didn't manage to get the post up. I still feel a little sluggish today so I am going to make this post as short as possible.

Here's my card for today.

I used a piece of 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" Simon Says Stamp Soft Navy cardstock, scored and folded in half for my card base. I cut a strip of 1 3/4" x 4 3/4" red cardstock and used a 1 1/4" square punch to punch out 3 squares from the strip of red cardstock. I drew some white dash lines all around the red piece with Uniball Signo White Gel Pen.

I stamped the snowman from Paper Smooches Freezy Fellas stamps set in some Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I also stamped the mouse and reindeer from Paper Smooches Santa Paws stamps set using the same ink as well. I colored all the images in with Copics and hand cut them out.

Now to assemble the card, I cut a small slit at the side of the card to tie the ribbon. I put some foam tape behind the red strip and adhered it to the card front. I punched 3 squares using the 1 1/4" square punch from some pattern papers and adhered them in the negative space of the red strip with some glue tape. I popped all the cute images on some foam tape and adhered them on top of the red strip.

I then stamped the sentiment from Paper Smooches Santa Paws onto some Neenah Solar White cardstock and punched it out with an oval punch from Stampin' Up. I layered the oval piece onto a scalloped oval piece punched from some pattern paper. The scalloped oval punch is from Stampin' Up as well. I put the sentiment on foam tape and adhered it to the card. 

Lastly, I put some Clear Wink of Stella Glitter onto all the cute images for some bling.

That's all the update for today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #14.

No Updates Today

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Sorry that there will be no new updates today as I am not feeling well. I will try to get the Card #13 post up tomorrow, hopefully.

Thank you.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #12

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Welcome to Day 12 of my Christmas Card Series. We are about half way through the series. Time really flies! I am actually running a little behind my schedule so now I need to crank it up in order to get back the lost time.

Anyway coming back to today's card, I made a shaker card which is so popular now in the cardmaking community. Let's have a look at the card I made.

I first prepped my card base by rounding the corners with the We Are Memory Keeper 1/4" Corner Chomper. I then stamped the swirl image from Simon Says Stamp Be Joyful stamps set all over the card base in some Versamark ink and heat embossed the images with American Crafts Gold embossing powder.

I put the card base under some heavy books as it was a little warped from the heat. I die cut the journaling card with Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling Card die from some Lawn Fawn Snow Day paper. I also die cut the coffee cups with Simon Says Stamp Coffee Cup die from some foam sheet and pattern papers. I put the pattern paper facing down when I die cut to get the mirror image of the coffee cup since I am using single sided pattern paper. It will be easier to use a double sided pattern paper.

I cut 2 small pieces of acetate for the heart window and some chocolate cardstock for the background of the coffee cups. I put in some 4mm brown sequins in the middle and assembled the shaker part. I adhered the coffee cups on top of the journaling card and stamped the steam image from Simon Says Stamp What's Brewing stamps set in some Simon Says Stamp Fog ink. I stamped the sentiment from Tiddly Inks Skating By stamps set in some Versafine Onyx Black ink.

I popped the journaling card on some foam tape and adhered to the card base. I tie a bow with some white ribbon and adhered to the top of the journaling card. Lastly, I added some 6mm silver sequins and some 4mm clear sequins for decorations.

That's all the update for today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #13.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #11

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Welcome to Day 11 of my Christmas Card Series. I love the spinner card so much, I have decided to make another one. This time I made a simple and more mature design.

Here's how it looks like:

I first cut a piece of 4 1/4" x 11" Neenah Solar White cardstock, scored and folded it in half to make my card base. I then cut another piece of Neenah Solar White cardstock 1/4" smaller at the width. I die cut the circle pieces like I have done for Card #10 and embossed the white piece with Sizzix Hero Arts Dots embossing folder.

I die cut the Elisa snowflake from some Simon Says Stamp Sea Glass cardstock and the Kate snowflake from Neenah Solar White. I adhered the Elisa snowflake to the center of the circle and put some Clear Wink of Stella Glitter all over the snowflake. I then adhered some number thickers on top.

I embossed the Kate snowflake 3 times with some silver embossing powder for added dimension. I stamped the greeting from Simon Says Stamp Be Joyful stamps set onto the curved banner die cut from Simon Says Stamp Small Banner dies set and embossed it with silver embossing powder.

Lastly, I assembled the card together. I punched a 3/4" white circle to put behind the Kate snowflake to hide the 5 cents coin underneath. I tested the spinner mechanism and this time it sort of work as well. Hahaha...I wasn't sure what went wrong but it does turn nicely at certain part of the circle.

That's all for the update today. I hope you like this version as well.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #12.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #10

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Welcome to Day 10 of my Christmas Card Series. Today's card is an interaction card called the Spinner Card. I have made this type of card before but the spinner is in a straight line. I saw someone doing a round type so I have wanted to try for some time since then.

Here's a look of the card.

I first cut a piece of 4 1/4" x 11" of Neenah Desert Storm cardstock and folded it in half to make the card base. I cut a piece of 4" x 5 1/2" of Neenah Solar White to layer on top of my card base. I die cut the circle from the center of the 4" x 5 1/2" Neenah Solar White piece using My Favorite Things Circle Stax One. I then die cut a white circle piece that is a size smaller so that it can fit into the negative circle space that i have cut out earlier.

I embossed the 4" x 5 1/2" piece using the Sizzix Hero Arts Dots embossing folder. Then I just assembled the card. I do not know how to explain how I assembled the spinner mechanism so you can look at the tutorial at this link.

I have wanted to upload a short video to show you how it works but I don't know why it is not playing when I previewed it. I will upload the video on my Facebook page so you can have a look here.

That's all for the update today. I hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #11.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #9

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Welcome to Day 9 of my Christmas Card Series. Today's update is going to be short and simple, just like the card I made.

Here's how it looks like:

I first prepped the card base by rounding the corners with We Are Memory Keeper 1/2" Corner Chomper and stamping the snow fall image from Simon Says Stamp's Be Joyful stamps set with some Versamark ink. I then heat embossed it using some American Crafts' White Embossing powder.

I hand cut some Simon Says Stamp Sea Glass cardstock to make a "frozen lake" scene. I stamped the little girl from Tiddly Inks Skating By stamps set in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it in with Copics. I stamped the skating trail and sentiment from the same stamps set and embossed it with some silver embossing powder onto the Sea Glass piece.

I adhered the "frozen lake" piece to the card base with some glue tape. I popped the little girl up with some foam tape and adhered her to the card front. Lastly, I added some Clear Wink of Stella Glitter to the little girl's hat, dress, mittens and skates. I also added some Ranger's Star Dust Stickles to the edge of the "frozen lake".

That's all the update for today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #10.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #8

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Welcome to Day 8 of my Christmas Card Series. Sorry that today's post is up a little later than usual. I was behind my schedule for today so I couldn't have the post up in time. Anyway, I still managed to post my card #8 today.

Here's a look at my card for today:

Today's card is a simple and cute card. I first prepped the card base from some Neenah Desert Storm cardstock. I then rounded the corners with We Are Memory Keeper's 1/4" Corner Chomper. I drew some dash lines around the card using the Signo Uniball White Gel Pen. 

I die cut a circle from some Christmas pattern paper using the largest circle die from My Favorite Things Circle Stax One. I cut the circle in half and folded it to create the Christmas tree. It is best to use double sided pattern paper for this technique. You can get the tutorial on how to fold the Christmas tree from Splitcoaststampers. I CASED this card from there.

I cut a strip of chocolate colored cardstock to make the base of the Christmas tree. I adhered the Christmas tree onto some stitched journaling card that was leftover from previous project. I adhered the asterisk shaped wood veneer on top of the tree and some pearls around the tree for decoration. I tied a bow using some ribbon around the stitched journaling card.

I stamped the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp's Be Joyful stamps set in Versamark and embossed it with American Craft's White Embossing Powder. I punched a strip of pattern paper with the Martha Stewart Doily Lace border punch and adhered it to the card base. Lastly, I popped the stitched journaling card up with some foam tapes before adhering it to the card front. 

That's all for the update today. I hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #9.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #7

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Welcome to Day 7 of my Christmas Card Series. I made today's card by using the embossing with a die technique. I have not tried it before this and I really like the result so I made 2 cards of the same design.

Let's take a look.

I first cut the card bases from some Simon Says Stamp Mint and Sea Glass cardstocks. I then embossed with the Simon Says Stamp Eliza and Kate snowflake dies onto some Neenah Solar White cardstocks.

I die cut the larger Eliza snowflake from some Mint and Sea Glass cardstocks and the smaller Kate snowflake from some vellum. I also die cut the tag from Simon Says Stamp Medium Tags die. I stamped the stripe border from Simon Says Stamp Tag Sayings stamps set onto the tag. I then stamped the "Merry Christmas" sentiments from Stampin' Up's Petite Pairs Stamps set thrice using Stampin' Up Markers (Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay, Soft Sky, Pool Party, Tempting Turquoise)

Then I just put everything together. I tied a double bow and adhered it to the card using some glossy accents. I also put some Clear Wink of Stella Glitters onto the snowflakes and adhered some transparent sequins to the card.

That's all the update for today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #8.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #6

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Welcome to Day 6 of my Christmas Card Series. For today's card, I made a Side Step Card. You can get the tutorial from Splitcoaststampers.

Here's how my card looks like:

I first prepped the card base using Simon Says Stamp Sea Glass cardstock, cut and scored according to the tutorial on Youtube. After folding all the score lines, I set it aside. I then stamped the bench image in Hero Arts Cup O' Joe Mid Tone Shadow Ink, the lamp posts and snow pile in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and the trees in Simon Says Stamp Green Apple & Hero Arts Green Hills Mid Tone Shadow Ink.

I stamped the sentiment in Simon Says Stamp Green Apple ink and the circle border in Simon Says Stamp Lipstick Red on a piece of white circle die cut from My Favorite Things Circle Stax One. I colored the lamps with Copics and cut all the images out by hand. The lamp post, bench and snow pile images are from Lawn Fawn's Winter In The Park stamps set whereas the trees and sentiment are from Simon Says Stamp's Merry Trees stamps set.

I cut a slope from some Neenah Solar White cardstock and adhered to the card base using glue tape. I adhered the bench and the circle piece on the card base with some glue tape as well. I then popped the snow pile, trees and lamp posts up on some foam tape. Lastly I finished off the card by applying some Rangers Star Dust Stickles to the slope, the snow pile, the trees and the lamps.

That's all for the update today.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #7.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #5

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Welcome to Day 5 of my Christmas Card Series. Today's card is rather simple and frankly I wasn't quite satisfied with how it turned out. It looks way different from how I imagined it to be but I cannot afford to re-do it as I still have quite a lot pending on hand. I just have to move on and hope that I can create more satisfactory cards as I go along the series.

So here's a look at Card #5.

I first prepped a Neenah Solar White card base. I then cut a piece of 4" x 5 1/4" Neenah Solar White cardstock and embossed it using the Sizzix Hero Arts' Christmas Words embossing folder.

Next I moved on to stamping the Christmas ornaments images from Spellbinders' Heirloom Ornament onto some Neenah Solar White cardstock using Simon Says Stamp Lipstick Red, Green Apple and Sea Glass inks. I stamped the ornament topper in Versamark and heat embossed it using American Crafts' Silver embossing powder. I hand cut all the images out, leaving a white border around all images. I popped the ornament toppers on foam tape before adhering them to the ornaments. Before that, I punched some holes at the top of the topper and tied some strings around it.

Now to assemble the card. I adhered the red ornament with some glue tape onto the embossed background layer. I folded the string behind the cardstock and secured it with a piece of washi tape. I put some foam tape behind the green and blue ornaments before adhering to the embossed background layer. I secured the strings behind the layer like how I did for the red ornament.

I then popped the whole embossed background piece up with lots of foam tape and adhered to the card base. I embossed the sentiment on a strip of red cardstock with silver embossing powder. I cut a banner end on 1 side of the sentiment strip and adhered it onto the embossed background with foam tape.

That's all for the update today. I hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by and check back again tomorrow for Card #6.

Christmas Card Series 2014 - Card #4

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Welcome back to Day 4 of the Christmas Card Series. Today's card is so cute that I made 4 of them. All the images used are from the same stamps set so you can treat it as a set.

Here's how they look like:

The card base measures 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" square. I die cut a circle window in the middle of a 4" x 4" Neenah Solar White cardstock using My Favourite Things Circle Stax One. I cut some pattern papers to layer behind the circle window.

The cat stamps are from Newton Nook's Newton's Holiday Mischief stamps set and I stamped them onto some Neenah Solar White cardstock in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. This ink is great to Copic color in and it does not bleed. After coloring, I cut the images out by hand as they do not have a matching dies set.

Now to assemble the card. I first adhered the pattern paper onto the card base using some glue tape. I then cut a strip of pattern paper and adhered it to the lower right hand corner of the 4" x 4" Neenah Solar White piece. I added some dash lines around the circle window for some added detail before popping the piece up with some foam tape.

Lastly I adhered the cat image and sentiment on top. The sentiment is from the same stamps set. I then punched the sentiment out using Stampin' Up's Oval Punch and layered it onto a scalloped oval punched from Stampin' Up's Scalloped Oval Punch. I die cut the snowflake from Simon Says Stamps' Kate Snowflake die. I added some Clear Wink of Stella Glitter brush to the images and also the snowflakes.

That's all the update for today. I hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping and check back again tomorrow for Card #5.