Recollections of Christmas

 

Finally had time  to dive into the Greetery's newest release, 'Recollective Holiday'. 

Betsy has outdone herself, again, with this holiday collection of vintage vibes.

I went with a redwork theme for this card, featuring the fabulous bow set against 

the stenciled Fair Isle background.

Closeup of the bow die  cut with  shimmer paper.

Went overboard with my Greetery order,  and just catching up to 

creating with all the goodies!

Happy holidays, friends!

C9's Card Stacks Base

 

Merriest of Holidays to you all!

I made 3 cards with the new Concord & 9th Card Base Die and Home for the Holidays

Die set. Just too cute! Saw Wanda Guess's spectacular card during the release, 

Christmas Magic with Concord & 9th! and had to 

have the sets!

The nighttime background with dark blue cardstock really lets the snowflake embossing

stand out. 

So I made 2 with the dark background, only changing the roofs from white to red.

It's so much fun putting the little houses together!

A top view shows the 3 stacks the houses attached to, the bases, with a few of the trees

glued on the background.

The 3-D diorama folds and fits perfectly inside an A2 envelope. 

Such fine detail, with a jolly result! 

Speaking of jolly, hope your holiday is a jolly one!

Keeping Christmas: September

 

Hello and welcome to Keeping Christmas September, a blog hop of 

holiday cards and projects to inspire you to get going on your

greeting cards!

I have a trio of cards today, so let's take a look.

There's a list of designer friends at the end of this post, so you

can hop along.

It's been a while since I've used Betsy's Make It Market: 

Fairy Tale Christmas.

The year it was released, I must have made a dozen cards. She included 

designer papers with the kit, along with stamps, dies, cutouts, stencils, 

even elements to create fairy tale books and projects that light up! For my cards today, I used the enclosed 

stencils, stamps and die cut outs.

The corner dies are the sweetest! I set up an assembly line and turned up

 the Christmas music (Pandora) on the computer. 

3 cards with the same layout moves along quickly, and is a wonderfully

relaxing way to spend a day in the craft room!

Slight differences like color variation on the holly, and where the 

side sprigs were placed were really the only differences.

And... matching envelopes, something I'm trying to do with all the cards I 

make. Makes it so easy when they're ready to send.

I usually send out Christmas cards on or around the 10th of December. 

How are you doing with your holiday card making? No pressure, but, 

only 2 more months of keeping Christmas inspiration.

Speaking of inspiration, check out what the other designers have for you!

Kelly Lunceford (Creator)

 Claire Broadwater

 Lori Tecler

 Nance Salkeld

 Nina Forsyth

 Nancy Guse

 Marybeth Lopez

 Nancy Penir

 Carol Hintermeier 

Christmas Card Ala C9

A Very Merry Christmas to all my blogging friends!

I'm sharing a few of the cards I'm sending out using Concord and 9th's new release

for the holidays. Together with a few oldies but goodies from them too!

If you follow C9 at all you're familiar with their Turnabout stamp sets, a real

favorite of mine. Holly Berry Turnabout is stamped 4 times in green, then 2

times in raspberry (Altenew Inks) I have the Turnabout jig which makes it super easy!

Silent Night stamps inside the oval window. Holly Berry sprig and berries.

Couldn't waste the die cut oval! One more card with Holly Berry greenery cut from

Shimmer cardstock. Mistletoe Messages sentiment.

I think I stamped 30 card fronts with the turnabout set, using different colors.

This one with Christmas Cottage stamp set taking center stage.

I ran this one through with an embossing folder, and inked the card a bit.

One more with green card stock.

Played around with some different Christmas greenery too.

This background created with Woven Stripes Background stamp. 

Here's how I created the plaid: Stamped the allover stamp once, turned

and stamped again. Then filled in with a red pencil. 

Couldn't stop with this technique, and experimented with different bg color card stock.

the bow and berries cut from C9's Holiday Foil Paper Pack.

Well that's it for some of my Christmas cards. Will be posting others with 

sets from different companies soon!

Happy Holidays!