Showing posts with label Home For Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Home For Christmas. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Easy Christmas Cards


My hostess club this month requested 'Easy' Christmas cards. The layout for this card above was cased from the awesome Lauren Meader. I thought the Winter Post set and a quick rub-on from Season of Cheer were a perfect match.




This card (again, above. I can't figure out how to get typing ABOVE the cards, today!) was the easiest one, but it is so elegant. I paired 2 of the papers from Ski Slope, layered the felt flurries snowflakes and added a silver brad. Then I added another rub-on saying from Seasons of Cheer. Can't get any easier than that!



I CASE'd this card - and I can't for the life of me find out who I CASE'd it from! I'm usually really good about saving the info from cards that I see and like. I love the little 'presents' on the top of the card. If the owner of this original sees this card, would you please let me know so I can give you credit. Paper comes from the Holiday Treasures designer series paper. Saying is a stamp from Home for Christmas.



Again, another CASE. This one comes from Melissa's blog. Scroll down to the end of this post to see her Jingle All The Way card. I just used rub-ons from Season of Cheer again and paper from Ski Slope. Topped it off with Real Red grosgrain ribbon.




It was so hard to get a decent picture of this project! We used cardstock vellum and stamped the snowflake from Winter Post using Silver Encore. Then we sprinkled Irridescent Ice embossing powder over that and heated. In real life it's just gorgeous! These little sour cream containers are so easy to make. Click on the link to find Beate's great tutorial.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Holiday Mini Swap


Can you see a theme for my posts? They have all been for swaps. Hence the reason I am part of a group on SCS called Swappers Anonymous. We are all Swap-a-holics! I've slowed down on the swaps for the past while, but did want to post the cards that I have made.

I think this card looks so much better in real life. I didn't use a flash, but it still washed out the warmth of the watercoloring. I needed a ribbon to match, but didn't have any chocolate chip taffeta, which was my first choice, so I colored the white taffeta ribbon with my creamy caramel marker. There is also paper piercing around the watercolor paper, which adds some nice depth to the card, but it didn't show up very well in the picture.