This pretty little Christmas card features Embellished Ornaments and the 6 x 6 Merry Moments Designer Series Paper Stack. It’s a great paper stack – Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive, Real Red, Smoky Slate and Whisper White in 4 patterns. It’s a lot of paper and a lot of colors! This card will be one in my October Stamp a Stack. Hugs, Fran
Let’s Celebrate! I used the Sleigh Gift Card die flat on the front of the soon-to-be-released Gift Card Holder Acordion die. The beautiful frame fits as one piece on the front. The sleigh is done in Stampin Up’s Silver Foil and Red Glimmer paper. It really shines.
The inside holds a gift card! The tabs to hold the card are built in so there’s no guess work involved. I love to give gift cards! Pop over to Karen’s Facebook page to see the rest of the designs for this month. Hugs, Fran
This is a new set in the Holiday Mini called All Ye Faithful. I saw several cards using the image in a an ornament – all beautiful – and using this piece of vellum from the Winter Wonderland Designer Vellum Stack. Using Night of Navy, I made things a bit more “stream line” since we will be doing this card in the September Stamp and Stack. Hugs, Fran
This is a case of a card in the back of the Holiday Mini, Fun to do – but I had to do some “figuring” to get the look I wanted. The new Sleigh Ride Edgelit Dies are cut in Vellum card stock. With the way the card ended up – I think I’d use the Holiday Fancy Foil Designer Vellum that is the first mat on the card. But……Then I cut the Edgelit dies in Whisper White and just cut off the small images and adhered the to the card behind each image. Does that make any sense? I used Versatile Christmas for the sentiment. This will be my “go-to” set this season! The little embellishment is small and light. You’ll love them! Hugs, Fran
Here’s my Holiday catalog case of Embellished Ornaments. I used Mossy Meadow and Red Foil to make the ornaments – and the new Precision Base Plate. Wow! It’s amazing! Just a forward and back pass through my Big Shot and all those tiny pieces in the ornament die cut clean. The bottom piece on the card is the new Holidays Fancy Foil Vellum. Hint – it’s thin. Be careful to only have one sheet in your hand when you cut it!
Crafting today will be at a minimum so I can clean out the garage for our upcoming Rubber Stamp Garage Sale! Once a year my garage gets a good cleaning 🙂 Hugs, Fran
One more Inspiration Challenge card! This one is inspired by Frances Byrne (and her amazing scenes!) I did a mixed Circle/Ring Accordion Album using some Mo Manning digital stamps, Stampin Up sentiment, punches and paper.
I also used some Ring Frame Edges on the middle pieces. The flag at the top is shown on both sides and makes the card measure 5 1/2 x 5 1/2.
Then I sprinkles stars all around – various punches and dies 🙂 Make sure to hop over to Karen’s Facebook page to check out all the challenge pieces! They really are inspiring!.
Hugs, Fran
This card is fashioned after one Caz Counsell made when these dies were first introduced. I used the Merry & Bright stamp on the front and…
2 Jollys on the inside! They are loading Santa’s sleigh – with a gift card behind them. This Sleigh die is so much fun and I just love Jolly! On the right “Jolly”, I snipped off his tail (“cut off his tail with a carving knife” – sorry, couldn’t help it!) and tucked it in behind him so it wouldn’t stick out of the card.
I could have made a card for each member of the team and hopefully we’ll do something like this again. In the meantime, check out everyone’s creations on Karen’s Facebook page! Hugs, Fran
The mice are still decorating! Today is day 2 of Karen Burniston’s Design Teams Christmas in July and I’m still playing with Jolly the Mouse. This card is a 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 card in Real Red with the little mice stacked up high to put the star on top of the tree. The tree is from the Christmas Trees Pop Stand. I just die cut and embossed 4 of them and stacked them off the side of the paper. The present is from the Evergreen Pivot card and was cut in Merry Moments Designer Series paper. The Santa hat is from Props 5 – lots of cute, cute, cute props!
Inside I used the same stamp set, Christmas Messages, as yesterday. There are so many great dies in this collection. To see more amazing creations, go to Karen’s Facebook page! Hugs, Fran
Another challenge card for the December Creative Crew on Splitcoast! This challenge was to create a window on your card. I used the Window Frames Collection Framelits – perfect! The card size is a 5 x 5 and has Ornamental Pines stamped behind it.
The candle on the front was hand cut and the flame is from the Bird punch. I “dripped” Dazzling Diamonds down the side of the candle.
The garland under the candle is made with he branch in the Bird punch – just like the flame. Tie a bow with the Cherry Cobbler seam binding and you have a pretty window card. Play along by using the keyword CCREW1214CF, CreativeCrew, SUO. Hugs, Fran
Supplies
One of the December Creative Crew challenges on Splitcoast is to use Project Life in any kind of project. I used the Hello December Accessory Pack, the wooden embellishments to be exact, and created some ornaments or package tie ons. The first one used the “joy” embellishment. I painted it white, sprayed it with adhesive and rolled it in Dazzling Diamonds. When that was dry I attached a fishing line down the middle of the “O” and added a snowflake from the Frosted Sequins with a rhinestone in the center. Hang it from some Lost Lagoon ribbon with a jingle bell tied to the ribbon with silver ribbon.
I also made one with “Noel.” Hope you’ll play along with Creative Crew this month. Use the keyword CCREW1214SF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM. Hugs, Fran
