More Christmas Cards

Happy belated Holidays everyone! Hope Santa was nice to you, even if you were a little naughty!

Here's a view of some of the other Christmas Cards I sent out during the holidays.

Frosty the Snowmen...

Snowflake Mittens...

Hanging Mittens...

Elf marking his calendar...

Vancouver Canucks Ornament Christmas Card

It was hard to decide what cards to make for our friends. Some of our friends received custom made Christmas Cards and some of our friends received these Canucks Ornament Christmas Cards, which Richard loves. These were the Christmas Cards I mentioned previously...

It's a fairly simple card to make, once you have all the pieces cut out. The white ornament, Canucks Logo, and Santa hat were all designed and cut out on my Silhouette.

The white ornaments were all embossed with different embossing folders using my Big Shot.

The base of the Christmas Card had all its corners punched out with the Martha Stewart snowflake corner punch.

After all the pieces were taken care of, a little gluing and voila...you have a Christmas Card that can be hung on a Christmas Tree.

Hanging Christmas Stockings

I have been experimenting with other 3D card ideas. In this particular card, instead of gluing down my decorations, I decided to hang it, which allows it to stand out when it's displayed.

The card was embossed with a polka dot embossing folder with my Big Shot and the corners were punched out with the Martha Stewart Snowflake Corner

Using the Crop-a-dile Big  Bite, I added eyelets to the stockings, so that I can string up the stockings securely.

The stockings were designed and cut out on my Silhouette. Once the pieces were glued together, the stitches were hand drawn on with sharpies. I love my huge sharpies collection.

I was very happy how is turned out. A simple idea is really all you need for an adorable card. My co-worker loved this one because it's sooo her!

Christmas Box Card

You might think that a Christmas card is just a standard fold-up 2 dimensional card, but that's not true. you can be creative and turn anything into a Christmas card.

I saw a blog the other day where they made a boxed christmas card and decided to give it a try, since I have a co-worker who would love this kind of a Christmas card.

As you can see, it's a box drawer card.

When you pull on the ribbon, the drawer pulls out to reveal the little gifts you've stored inside. In this case, I included a pair of red mittens, a stocking, a santa hat and a 3D snowflake.

This project is quite simple, though you have to be very specific with measurements to make sure the drawer fits perfectly in the box.

Materials used:

Martha Stewart snowflake punch

Martha Steward snowflake corner punch

Scoring Board

Crop-a-Dile Big Bite

Silhouette (for the mittens, stocking and santa hat)

Waterfall Christmas Card

My first waterfall card, the Thank You Waterfall Card, for my co-worker Cristina was a success. Everyone at work loved it. Cristina loved it too.

Since then, I decided to make another waterfall card, this time for Christmas.
Using a very simple idea, this is what I came up with...

 

This card was made with:
- paper cutter
- scoring board
- paper
- stamp
- embossing powder

Christmas Card Galore

It's always hard to be ahead of the game...especially with Christmas Cards...ESPECIALLY hand made Christmas Cards...

It took a while, but I finally made enough to mail to my extended family in Edmonton and in the USA.

The mittens were designed and cut out using my Silhouette. The paw prints were with the use of a EK border punch.

Paw Print Mittens

 The "Happy Holidays" is actually a window message cutout designed and cutout using my Silhouette. The snowflakes were from a Martha Stewart Ribbon punch, where I cut all the snowflakes apart.

Happy Holidays Message Window - Snowflakes

 The Snowman, along with his scarf and hat were designed and cutout on my Silhouette. The corner snowflakes were made with a Martha Stewart snowflake corner punch.

Tri-Fold Snowman

 This card is my favourite! The mitten was designed and cutout on my Silhouette. The snowflakes were punched out with the use of a Martha Stewart snowflake border and corner punch set.

Snowflake Mitten

 The frame was punched with the Martha Stewart snowflake border and corner punch set. The Polar Bears were stamped then silver embossed.

Polar Bear Silver Emboss

 I was going with simple and clean with this card. The Holiday Message was copied from a stamp design I saw, which I copied in MS Word and printed out on my HP Colour Laser. The edge was punched out with a Martha Stewart snowflake border and corner punch set.

Holiday Message Tag

I finally opened up what I thought was white embossing powder for this card, but it turned out to be a pearl clear embossing powder. It still looked great...so this was completely decorated with wet stamp embossing along with a dry embossing border using my Big Shot.

Pearl and Gold Wet Emboss and Dry Embossing Border

 The red decoration plate was decorated with a Martha Stewart snowflake border and corner punch set. The snowman, along with his pipe, hat and scarf were designed and cutout on my Silhouette!

Snowman

 This card is cute....the Xmas is a message window cutout designed and cutout on my Silhouette, along with all the pieces of the Santa outfit! The corners were punched with a Martha Stewart snowflake corner punch.

Santa Claus Clothing

 This is a simple card...I'm still not too sure about it. I used a Martha Steward snowflake ribbon punch along with platinum vellum paper to make the snowflakes. The message was copied from a stamp and printed out on my HP Colour Laser Printer.

Snowflake ribbon - Holiday Message

I designed a special Christmas Card for Richard and I this season to give out to our friends...stay tune for the next blog post...pssst....it has to do with the Vancouver Canucks....hehehe...no surprise there!

Thank You - Waterfall Card

Waterfall Cards...I had seen these before and had always wanted to make one. I had tried to make a small one last month, but it was not a success. I was missing something. I finally sucked it up and watched a YouTube show on how a waterfall card was made. (Light Bulb lights up!) It was sooo easy once you saw it!

I volunteered to make a Thank You card for a unsung hero co-worker and had decided to re-attempt to make a waterfall card for her.

Using my Silhouette, I cut out her name using a graffiti font, which I mounted on 4"x4" square card stock and the envelope.

Envelope

Assembled Waterfall Card

The Waterfall Card pieces was mounted on a hand written card stock with brads.

Here are photos to show you what happens when you pull on the ribbon to interact with the Waterfall Card...

Once open completely, the message and signature plate opens up!

There you go...my very first successful Waterfall Card.

Thank you Lap for assisting me!

First Craft Night

I invited my co-workers over for an evening of mom's home cooked Pho followed by an evening making Christmas cards. It would be my very first time hosting a craft night!

As you can see from above, we took over the dining room table and I brought out a lot of my crafting tools and supplies.

My tools:

Big Shot with embossing folders, dies and embossing plates

Sharpies, pens and spider ink pens

Scissors, glue, tape, and cutting tools

Martha Stewart Snowflake Punches

I also prepared quite a few things using the Silhouette prior to the Craft Night

Santa & Snowman clothing and accessories

Holiday messages, signs, Santa coat, Gingerbread People, Trees

Along with additional supplies to make the cards and decorations...

Card Stock, pattered paper, custom paper prints

Buttons and ribbons

I did my best and the night was a success...more than 7 cards were made...sorrie, I didn't get a chance to take photos of the cards made!

Santa's Clothing Christmas Card

I had already made all the different pieces of Santa's clothing using my Silhouette last month. I was preparing for a huge card making day. That day never came, but because all the pieces were already there, it took only a few minutes to come up with an idea for a card and putting it all together!

I embossed a white 6" x 6" card with polka dots using an embossing folder and my Big Shot. Then I decided to just throw Santa's clothes on to the card....

Turned out perfectly...
A quick holiday saying stamped and embossed on the inside and it was ready to be signed and sent off.

Quick Tip
Come up with ideas for cards...like Santa clothing pieces, Snowman decoration pieces, tags, labels...make them all and store them away...then when the time comes, you have all the pieces there to put together a card, rather than spending the time to make everything for a card along with come up with ideas. When you see the pieces before your eyes, an idea will just pop out!