2014 Selman Christmas Cards

It's so hard to stay on top of blogging, but at least I started taking pictures of all the crafting I have been doing.

I always find it daunting to make a large amount of Christmas cards. I especially hate making a large amount of identical Christmas cards since I am hand making them. Kinda boring to make the same one a few dozen times. So, I discovered an alternative to producing a large amount of Christmas cards without redesigning each one, but still making each unique.

Using my lovely Silhouette Cameo, I designed a white Christmas window pane. We have "The Selman", "2014", a snowflake and last, but not least, Richard's favourite Canucks logo in each window pane. I mass produced the window pane. From there, I got to play around with different colour card bases and highlight coloured paper. Some of them I even embossed with Christmas designs using the Big Shot.

I was very happy with the results...same ideas for each, but each still very unique.

2014 Selman Family Limited Edition Christmas Card

Happy New Year everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful winter holiday.

Did any of you write down any New Year's resolution?
My New Year's resolution involves staying in touch more regularly with my BFF in Ottawa and carving out just a bit more time to craft a bit more, especially now that I have a sewing/embroidery machine!

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It's been a while since I last posted, so I'll kick start the year showing off "The Selman Family's 2014 Limited Edition Vancouver Canucks Stocking Skate Waterfall Card"...talk about a mouthful!

I kept this very simple, but with very detailed designs on each panel. Everything you see above was designed using the Silhouette Cameo, except the eyelet at the top for the ribbon.

It might be hard to see, but this year I had SELMAN embedded into the 2014, on the stocking skate.

And of course, there's always a Vancouver Canucks Logo. Go Canucks Go!

How the waterfall card works, is when you pull the ribbon above, the individual pages self flips below.

As you keep pulling, the card flip through the pages, and the greeting panel reveals itself.

I think for next time, I won't make each panel's design so intricate because it was very tedious work adhering it with double-sided tape. (I'm not a fan of glue...I find it too messy and it can damage the nice metallic paper I was using.) That was the reason why I only made a dozen of these cards!

I hope you like this card!
Stay tune for the next post of all the other Christmas Cards I made for 2014.

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.

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!

Graduating Canucks Fan

Congratulations Michelle on your high school graduation!
Soo sorry your graduation was during a Vancouver Canucks Playoff game.
It's all okay...I'll cheer on Kesler for you.

Here's a little grdaution card made from my Silhouette SD for Michelle...
(The Orca was made using 2 different cutting layers...)