Cards by CG: Christmas Cards

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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

My 2011 Christmas Cards

Today is a Crafty Designers Day over at Craft Junkie too!! I love this project too... today is the day the designers share Christmas Cards!

These are my Christmas cards for this year. I used lots of DCWV's glitter paper!! Love that stuff!

This is a standard A2 card base (4 1/4" x 5 1/2") using Kraft cardstock. The white card layer measures 5" x 3 3/4", the red patterned paper by Heidi Grace is 4 3/4" x 3 1/2".

I cut the stockings using Joys of the Season (cut at 2 1/2"). The stocking bodies are generic red cardstock, but the cuff, toe and heel are white glitter paper. I love the touch of twine too. I grabbed this red and white twine on Etsy for a great price... I have TONS of leftovers too. The little sentiment stamp is by Stampendous.

I made a total of 65 of these terrific cards... if you are trying to figure out how many stockings that is... it's 260 stockings I cut and assembled! :)

I bought some Kraft cardstock envelopes from Clear Bags R Us on Ebay. The watermarked stamps were created using Dazzle Versamark ink. No heat embossing required, just stamp and let it dry. I love the look on the Kraft colored card stock too. Both of these stamps are by Studio G.

That's it, please head over to Tracy's blog and see what

her other Crafty Designers have come up with to share today.

My wonderful fellow DT members

Indira ~ Crafty Homemade

Kadie ~ Kards by Kadie

Kristy ~ Craftin-on-my-Door

Roberta ~ TX Scrapper Mom

Shawn ~ Shawn's Fireside Crafting Room

Shelley ~ Carleys-Closet

Tanya ~ Tanya Isis Creations

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Fun Tiara Card

I made a similar card a while back but needed a new one for a friend of mine...

I love that I had it saved in my Gypsy!!

Here is a close up of the gel pen stitches. Can you see the glitter on the tiara?? I love that glitter paper paired with the shining rhinestones.

The inside is simple, just a quick stamped sentiment.

I love this pink polka-dot paper, so cute and girly! :)

The card measures approximately 3 1/2" x 6". I made this card to fit in some envelopes I've had FOREVER! I love the pink and black color scheme... I may even have to make more of these cards in the future! Luckily I saved it to my Gypsy! :)

Cricut Cartridges:

Indie Art for the tiara (3")

Christmas Cards (card base cut at 6" x 7")

Supplies:

Heidi Grace (pink pattern paper)

generic black card stock

generic white card stock

DCWV white glitter paper for the tiara

Studio 112 rhinestones

Hero Arts "Big Hugs" for both sentiment stamps

Gelly roll white gel pen

ATG glue runner

pop dots

Challenges:

Crafty Sprouts : Get in shape (shaped cards)

Craft spot by Kimberly : Project for a friend

Birthday Sundays : Birthday Card

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Simple Sunflower card

I have this pretty easy card to share with you today. The card shape is cut from the Christmas Cards Cricut Cartridge. I love the shape! I welded two of these together to form the shaped card base measuring 3 1/2" x 6" (I have an overabundance of this size envelopes).

I grabbed a spray of sunflowers at Craft Warehouse. I got four flowers per bunch for 2/$1. I just cut off the head and a couple leaves and hot glued them to the card base after I added the sheer white ribbon and gel pen stitches. Three little flat back pearls finish off the flower.

I embossed the sentiment (from Hero Arts, Big Hugs) onto the card. Here you can see the white sheer ribbon (for Dollar Tree) and some more of the flat back pearls running over the ribbon.

As you can see I used some dark red card stock to cut the card base, I added a white layer of card stock, cut to fit the inside, so I'd have a place to write. The "happy birthday" sentiment stamp is from the same set. More gel pen stitches to match the front, and I am done. Super simple... but with that HUGE sunflower head, it would have been really easy to go overboard. :)

Challenges:

Sentimental Sundays : Flowers

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

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I have the fun card to share today. I love these paper scallop flowers! I've seen many You Tube videos and blog tutorials about them, but this is the first one I've made. The card base shaped came from the Christmas Cards Cartridge, I sized it on my Gypsy to a finished card size of 3 1/2" x 6".

I used seven 2" scalloped circle punched from double-sided pink paper for my flower. I brad in the center, a self adhesive pearl and some glitter glue and my flower was complete. I then added some green gingham ribbon looped into leaves add a sweet finishing touch.

The sentiment mat is the same shapes as the card base. The sentiment comes from the Sentimental Sunday Blog (they have a few free sentiment downloads each Sunday). I cut slits in my sentiment mat and laced the ribbon through the slits.

All the paper is from Heidi Grace. I used my Zig fine point marker for the green stitches about the card mat and the sentiment mat. Look at all that dimension from the flower. I really think this will have to be a hand delivered card... that's not really a bad thing! :)