Reindeer in the snow Christmas card

Hello Happy Monday it's very hot and stormy here, but I would rather that than snow! I have another Christmas card, I started this one on the weekend and finished it now. I bought a new set of stamps at Michaels on Saturday these are a Hampton Arts Christmas set, so cute so I was looking forward to trying them out. I started with a pre-made A2 size card in silver and then I used a piece of paper from a little American Crafts Christmas pad I had (6 x 6) it looks like a winter forest. I stamped the tree and reindeer from the set onto this and then again on white and I coloured in the white images with my colored pencils and cut them out and paper pieced them. I added some glitter gel pen to the reindeers antlers and his scarf. I then cut some "snow" out of a scrap of glittery cardstock and used a Verve stamp to stamp my greeting. I think it turned out lovely, thanks for looking, have a nice day.

Ornaments

This was actually another one I made today using my Cricut. There is a special ornament feature on the "Joys of the Season" cartridge so I used that to cut out the patterned baubles and decrate with different coloured card underneath. I used satin ribbon and bows to hang them and some little fabric snowflakes and brad and a Happy Holidays sticker to finish

Sweet Gingerbread man

Ok I think that's it for my Christmas cards this year, I'm all done! This was my last one (I think). I used my Cricut to cut out the little gingerbread man and decorated him with rhinestones. I found some gorgeous gingerbread man ribbon at Michaels for only $1 a reel so that was definitely going in my shopping basket. I used some other ribbon for the bow and stamped Merry Christmas on the bottom.

Santa Claus is coming to town

Well I'm nearly finished on my Christmas cards, it's a shame as I love making them but there are plenty of other cards and scrapbook pages to do! This one is so cute. I did something different by cutting out circles with my Cricut and layering them on the side and putting a strip of green card over it. I then cut out the warm wishes sentiment with the "Simply Charmed" cartridge as well as the cute little Santa. I finished it with a gold star eyelet and silver brad.

Let it Snow

Another wintery one for someone on this side of the world! I used blue and silvers again, I love the sparkly blue paper the most! I then used my Cricut to cut out the word snow and the snowman's head and used a sparkly line sticker through the middle. I used rub on letters for the "let it" at the top of the word snow, then found some fabric snowflakes in my stash and some silver brads for a cluster of snowflakes and finished off with a light blue bow.

Hanging bauble

I realised I only have a few Christmas cards left to make so this is one of them. I used blues and silvers for a more wintery look. I cut the bauble from my "Joys of the Season" cricut cartridge and also the Seasons Greetings saying for the bottom. I added some snowman ribbon and a bow with some gemstones to finish.

Challenge 6

Here is the latest challenge from Greg, I covered all the requirements except one of the bonus points ones, so I did pretty well : )

Mandatory:

·         Card must have an insert - yes

·         The insert must have a verse - yes

·         The verse must be at least 8 lines  yes

·         The insert must include a greeting- yes "Celebrations"

·         The greeting cannot be printed with a printer greeting was cut out with the Cricut

·         The greeting cannot be rubber stamped - Cricut

·         The insert must be colored (non-white) paper - green paper

·         The card must have a minimum of one item from each of these cartridges

o    Christmas Cheer - Christmas stocking

o    Winter Frolic - Santa Claus

o    Joys of the Season - Bauble

o    One cartridge of your choice - Celebrations cartridge used for the "Celebrate" greeting inside of card

·         The card must include a santa from a cricut cartridge, and must be multi colored.- yes

·         At least 3 layers must be used on the front of the card - yes

·         The first layer must cover 80% of the card at least -  yes

·         No stickers can be used on the card (excludes something made by hand and a Xyron is used to make it into a sticker) no stickers were used

Bonus

·         If the verse rhymes - the verse does rhyme

·         If the card has a bauble - yes

·         If something moves on the card - the Christmas tree charm moves

·         If “chalks” are used on the card or insert - used on the white embossed strip

·         If something is colored in by hand (pencil, chalk, or texta’s only) - as above

·         If the card is for Tony and includes at least one funny joke/insult somewhere - I couldn't do this one as I have made the card for mum and dad already so this card will go to someone else.

Challenge 5

This was Greg's next challenge for mum and I, this took a few days in between doing other stuff but I met all of the requirements, I am really pleased with how it looks and it's a very cheerful Christmassy card that is very cute.

Here is what the requirements were from our very hard taskmaster but a very loveable one too ♥. What I did is typed in red to show what I used:

Mandatory Items:

·         Card must have an insert - mine does have a green insert

·         Insert must have a greeting rubber stamped - mine is stamped in there "Wishing you lots of merry"

·         The stamped greeting cannot be in black ink - in green ink

·         Card must be dark green - yes mine is dark green

·         Card can be any fold - mine is tri-fold

·         The card must have a scene (nativity scene, kids playing etc) - mine is children playing by a Christmas tree

·         The scene must include at least 1 animal - my animal is an owl in the tree

·         The card must have a "tag" from any cricut cartridge - yes in a little pocket

·         The "tag" must have the Christmas greeting on it. - my greeting is "Peace and Love"

Bonus Point Items:

·         If card is not a left or top fold - mine is tri-fold

·         If the card has a wreath of some sort - included on the tag

·         If the card has something embossed - my snowflake embossed pocket

·         If the card has something (or part of something) colored in by hand - the faces on the children were coloured in using a light pink marker

·         If the card uses at least one "brad" - my brad is the star on the bauble

·         If the card has at least 2 scolloped edges somewhere on it - I have 3 in the card

·         If the card has a bow on it. - the bow is on the tag

·         If the card has at least 6 snow flakes on it - six silver snowflakes on the insert page

Purple penguin

I made this one yesterday afternoon. I found some penguin ribbon at the craft shop, I just loved it and it was different to the normal Christmas colours so I got it and created this card with it using the purples. I used my Cricut and Nestabilities as always and came up with this design which makes the grey days of winter seem a bit brighter!

Challenge 4

This was the latest challenge from Greg given to mum and I: I think I pretty much covered all the requirements and extra points category. I used my cricut to cut the circles and square. I then embossed the square on my Cuttlebug and used my Cricut to cut out my reindeer, tree and Santa from the Christmas Cheer cartridge. I finished it with some ribbon, some gemstones and a snowflake button.

Challenge is listed below:

·         card must have a printed insert

·         insert must have a greeting and a saying/poem/verse etc

·         card must use only one cricut cartirdge, but must have 3 objects from that cartirdge

·         card must include the use of ribbon

·         card must have something colored in by hand (chalked embossing, stamped image etc)

·         card must be red/silver/green in any combination, but must use all three colors for the layers etc

·         card must include something embossed

bonus points

·         if card has a theme

·         if card has a santa

·         if card has a christmas tree

·         if card has a reindeer

·         if card has a snow flake

Challenge card 3

Ok I finished my challenge card that was given by Greg between me and mum today. I have been through the challenge list and believe I met all the requirements, hope you like it. I really enjoyed making this one but I am really excited to see what mum makes, I will have some stiff competition : )

·          the card must be left hand fold

·          the card must include something that is rubber stamped

·          the card must include a christmas tree, that tree must be cricut and layered in different colors.

·          the card must include presents, can be cricut or other embellishments

·          the card must include a chistmas stocking

·          the card must contain a christmas greeting of any sort, can be cricut or stamped but cannot be a "Sticker"

·          the card must be red

·          the card must contain something silver, can be anything above or something different.

·          must include scolloped edge or border punched edge of some sort (either on the card or one of the layers)

optional / extra points

·          if the card includes a teddy bear

·          if no stickers are used on the card

·          if the card has a candy cane on it

challenge card 2

I finally got to finish my card today, I am really happy with it, I stuck to all the rules from Greg who made the challenge quite challening!! The challenge was:

·         Card must be top fold.

·         Must use at least 3 layers (colors) of card for at least 50% of the cards surface

·         One of those layers must be a Christmas color (red/green/white)

·         A least two cricut cartridges must be used (writing and object, two objects etc)

·         The card must include a Santa of some sort.

·         The card must include at least one embellishment not created by Cricut (sticker, stick on, rub on etc)

·         The card must include a christmas greeting however there must be two words in the greeting.

Extra points for

·         if ribbon is used on the card

·         if a rubber stamp is also used on the card

I also got extra points I think. I love the cheeriness of this card and I am glad I picked up the sparkly cardstock at Joanns the other day as it adds a Christmassy feel to the card. Hope you like it!

Cute little penguin in the snow

I started this one yesterday and was busy this morning but got to finish it now. I tried some different colours and I think the pink and blue works well with the bright green. I used my Cuttlebug embossing folder in snowflakes to make the embossed white background, then I coloured in some of the snowflakes using my chalks. I also used a scallop border punch to do a border on the pink cardstock. I then used my Cricut to cut out my penguin and finished off with a sticker "ho ho ho" greeting and some sequin snowflakes.

Reindeers

I worked out that I have about 8 or so Christmas cards left to make so one of these is a reindeer card I made today. I layered some cardstock and patterned papers and cut out some reindeers with my Cricut. I had some Jolee's stickers in my box so I used those for the holiday greeting and the holly. I then took some ribbon from my box to decorate the bottom. Simple but nice : )

Noel

Here is my challenge card for today from mum. The challenge was to use red card with one edge scalloped, a snowman, a Christmas tree and a rub on greeting or stick on greeting. I probably lose points here but I didn't have a large red card or cardstock on hand so I made a gold card but I did scallop the edge on one side. I then cut out baubles on my Cricut in silver and cut a smaller circle for the inside in red. I then cut out the snowman (very cute) and Christmas tree and decorated those and hung them with ribbon and bows. Then I used my rub on alphabets to write the word Noel.

Santa and his reindeers

I finally finished this card tonight, I started working on it yesterday as there were so many pieces to cut out but this is definitely my favourite. I started off with a blue card and then used my Cricut "Joys of the Season" Cartridge to cut out Santa, his sleigh, reindeers, houses, moon and trees. I asked Greg for his opinion and he suggested going through all of my paper and seeing if I had some kind of sky paper or a night sky looking paper. So I went through it all and I found the perfect clouds paper to make it seem like Santa is flying through the night. So then it was time to get the placing just right of all the pieces, I called Greg over to show him ideas and we both agreed this was the best. I then used a sticker for his sleigh for the greeting and also some tinsel for the reins and a red gemstone for Rudolph's nose. I am loving using my Cricut, there are endless ideas but this is my favourite. This is definitely going to someone who I know will love it!

Silvery Snowflakes

Today I made a wintery themed Christmas card. I layered up some bluey grey papers and embossed one of the layers using my Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder. Then I cut out a large and some small snowflakes using my "Joys of the Season" Cricut. I then decorated them using a snowflake eyelet, brad and some rhinestones along with a large white button for the largest snowflake and some ribbon. I finished the card with a joy sentiment from my Cricut.

Christmas treats

Today I wasn't feeling so well but I wanted to still make a card so I'm not sitting around feeling unwell and get my mind off it. So I did the challenge that was set between mum and I, the challenge was to use a brad, patterned paper and christmas food items. So I did a diagnol line of patterned papers and  then used my Cricut to cut out the baubles, then I used my cricket to cut out the little gingerbread man and the candy cane. I used sticky ribbon to hang the baubles and put brands and bows on them. I then cut out the sweet moments saying for the bottom, hope you like it!

Dear Santa...I have been good this year...

My last card for Friday. I am really enjoying piecing the little die cuts together. I covered a card in bright green card and also a scrap of scrapbooking paper I had in my box. I then used my Nestabilities to cut out the squares. I then cut out the cute little Santa off my "Winter Frolics" cartridge, it was quite fun putting him together. I then put some ribbon around the card and found a little Christmas tree charm in my box that I hung from the ribbon. I then added the "Dear Santa" sentiment also from the "Winter Frolics" cartridge. I called my lovely husband over for consultation and he loved it too..I love this one..I almost want to keep it for myself! : )

My challenge from mum

Hello, I've had a good week with my cards, Im amazed at how much time I have no my studying is done for this year so it's a good time to get these done.

My mum likes to make cards too so I suggested we set a challenge. My challenge was to do a card with some purple card, glitter and a wreath or bell. I started off with the card being purple then layered another shade of purple on top. I then cut out the wreath using my "Christmas Noel" Cricut. I also used a bell in the card with a die cut from the cartridge which hangs nicely from the wreath. I finished it off with a greeting, some gemstones and some glitter glue on the bow. I think I got everything in the challenge : ), I'm really pleased with how it looks!