Quick Christmas Card

A friend needed 40 Christmas cards and asked me to help. I knew we needed to have a very simple card in order to get this done. My friend has a large family and even after the older 3 kids went to school, we still has two adorable little girls let at home.  Sothis is the basic card we did. Inside there is a white sheet of cardstock to write on.  She stamped Merry Christmas on her cards. We got those 40 cards done in about an hour.

The embossing folder is from Cuttlebug.

Ornament Card

A friend from JustCards, Meg F, Made a card with 3 dimentional ormanments which inspired this card.  The stamps are from Stampin Up. The ornaments are from a set called Tree Trimmings. I stamped 3 of each ornament, cut them out, folded them in half and glued them together as seen here.  The papers are all very glittery which you miss here in the photos.

Here is another view so you can really see the how it is 3-D.

Even more pop up Christmas trees

I am showing this because I think I have found a quicker way to create these. All the background is pretty Mind's Eye paper I got for a very good price. The ornaments are done with a hole punch. I put them through my Xyron. Then I used a white gell pen to highlight each ball.

I also included some pictures of the card opening to try to show how cool these are!

It is amazing how flat it is when it is closed.

And it just pops up! You have to be a little careful when closing it, so you don't bend the bottom branches.

More Pop Up Christmas trees

I have orders for a bunch of these so I am working at getting more done. They have to be simpler than the first one so that I can get them done quickly. It has been a learning experience. This is the front of the second one I did.

Here is the tree for this second pop up tree card. The tree pieces have been shaded with teal ink. The birds are a EK punch. The flourishes are a Quickutz die.

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This is the front of the third one.  The words are even from a piece of scrapbbok paper that I cut out.

The tree inside was done by running the paper through the Cuttlebug. The ornaments are from a Stampin Up tag stamp. The tree skirt was done with a Fiskers punch.

I like the texture of the embossing folder but it does make the tree slightly thicker when folding it up.

This is the area for the giver to write on. It was down with a corner punch.   Okay, at east 3 more to go. I better get back to work.

Elmo

Here is a quick card I did for my grandson. He loves Elmo right now. My husband and I found a Elmo stamp on clearance at Hobby Lobby in Utah. I colored Elmo with markers. I used Copics, Bics and Sharpie markes, in order to get the right colors.  He is on Pearl Glimmer paper from Paper Temptress. This is beautiful paper if you haven't tried it. I also did some Christmas tags with it that I will show later. The stamp is from Stampabilities. Th backgroud paper is from a pad called "Nonsense" by We R memory keepers. Be sure to keep an eye on my block.. Paper Temptress has offered to provide my blog with some amazing paper in December. Be sure to come back and see!

Sympathy card

My dear friend Gillian lost her dad and I am sent this to her. I had colored the image a long time ago. It was a gift from a friend and I had it on my magnetic board for a while. I finally decided that it was the right time to use it. No fancy techniques here though. The flower in the background is one I have used a lot.  I think it is from Stampendous but I am not going down to my room to find it. The little girl is a Sugar Nellie stamp. The words are an old retired set from Close to my Heart that I got at a garage sale years ago. As for the coloring, I did my usual with this . Mostly colored pencils with oderless mineral spirits but Copics for the skin.

Blog giveaway

At Designs by Candice , There is a giveaway from Stamping Scapping It is a wonderful chance to win! I love the new stamps she is showing that match with the nestibilities. It's a great idea!