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

Monogrammed Flower Window Card

I have a fun card to share with you.  The funnest part is the vellum window. :)

The flower cut is from Joy's of the Season. I welded the shadow to a Cindy Loo frame to create the front of the card.  I welded two frames (hide all contours) to create the card body. It sure creates a terrifically different card! :)

The Cindy Loo frame is sized to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".  All card stock is Bazzil: I cut the card base from white, the front card layer in purple, the stems in green, and the flowers and butterflies (MS Butterfly punch) from pink. I cut an addtional card front layer from vellum and sandwiched it between the purple and white card base  layer.

This flower is cut from Joys of the Season, sized to 3 1/2".  I cut three layers for the flower head so I could curl them to add a ton of dimension.

I added the "V" from Cindy Loo. I welded it into the card base too. Doesn't it make an adorable monogram on this lovely card.  I love the simple details on Cindy Loo.

I added some white flat back pearls to the flower center and a few around the card. 

Here you can see the wonderful card shape!! I hope you enjoy this card as much as I do. :)

Challenges: 

 Cricut Cardz  Challenge : Monogram

Paper Cutz Challenge : Anything goes

Flower Window Card

I have a fun card to share with you.  The funnest part is the vellum window. :)

The flower cut is from Joy's of the Season. I welded the shadow to a Cindy Loo frame to create the front of the card.  I welded two frames (hide all contours) to create the card body. It sure creates a terrifically different card! :)

The Cindy Loo frame is sized to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".  All card stock is Bazzil: I cut the card base from blue, the front card layer in purple, the stems in green, and the flowers and butterflies (MS Butterfly punch) from pink. I cut an addtional card front layer from vellum and sandwiched it between the purple and blue layer.  

This flower is cut from Joys of the Season, sized to 3 1/2".  I cut three layers for the flower head so I could curl, ink and add a ton of dimension. I inked the flower heads and the butterflies with some dark pink ink before assembling. 

I stamped the "You're the Best!" sentiment from Scrappy Mom's Stamps using white ink. I also added hand drawn stitches using my Gelly Roll white gel pen around the frame and doodles on the flower and it's stem.

I added some white flat back pearls to the flower center and clusters around the card. BTW, this is the card closed.  On the first few pictures, I was holding the card up to the light so you could see through the vellum.  I love how it turned out! :)

Here you can see the wonderful card shape!! I hope you enjoy this card as much as I do. :)

Challenges:

Die Cuttin' Divas: Christmas themed cut for a NON-Christmas themed card