Mass Production #2

I made twelve of this card, and my Christmas cards for the year are complete.

The image is from an old rubber stamp set from Recollections. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. They are both embossed with gold embossing powder. The image panel is mounted on foam squares.

It feels great to have the cards done. I have the labels ready to print, also, but want to make sure there are no changes in the next month and a half.

I am busy going through stuff in the cedar chest and some old photos of ours. We are planning a 50th anniversary party for us (well, mostly our kids are doing the planning) and it's only three and a half weeks away. That time will go so fast! Then I have a whole list of things to get done that are not short projects. I'm still hoping to get some more cards done from my card class, but they will wait.

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Mass Production #1

Well, I have my Christmas cards for this year finished - inside and out!! Yippee! I was getting a bit stressed and really wanted them done, so I made twenty of this card. I then did twelve of another that I will share tomorrow. That, along with the ones that were finished, makes 79. Whew.

Not much explanation needed. The ornament stamp is from Hampton Art. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. I cut the rectangles out with dies and the panel is mounted on foam squares.

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SCT Classes - Lawn Fawn

More SCT class cards - these are from Lawn Fawn.

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More Upcycled Christmas

We got a Christmas thank you card from friends, and I made these three cards using the card and the envelope liner. I used dies on this first card - to cut the image out and to emboss the frame on the under panel. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn.

I added some envelope liner under the main image panel.

More envelope liner on this one. The image is from Stampin' Up! and is embossed with gold. I added a gold strip across the bottom of the striped panel. The sentiment is again from Lawn Fawn. I'm guessing this will be the last cards of the year!

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Red-Foiled Christmas

This first card measures 5 x 6 1/2 inches. I used my Glimmer Hot foil system with red specialty foil. I simply added the sentiment to complete it.

These next two cards were made with the negative foil. The sentiments are from Lawn Fawn.

I used a Sizzix embossing folder for the background on this third card, and silver matting.

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Christmas Wishes

A couple more Christmas cards. I'm getting close to having enough made for this year. What is really behind is my calendar. I only have three months done. I feel I'm running out of time for them! These cards are pretty simple and self-explanatory, I think. The thin striped strips were in my "strips jar."

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Foiled Christmas

Two more cards I made using pieces done with my Glimmer Hot Foil system. This first one is 7 x 3 3/4 inches. I matted with red. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn.

This one was done with the negative foil and matted with dark blue. This sentiment is also from Lawn Fawn and is mounted on foam squares.

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Pinkish Poinsettia

The stenciled poinsettia is from Gina K. I used Versamark on the center dots and then used gold embossing powder. The sentiment is embossed in gold, also, and is from Lawn Fawn.

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Oops - Four More Christmas Cards - and Two "Bonus" Cards!

I really thought it would be awhile before I posted any more Christmas cards - but here I am, with four more. After my friend, Vicki, did this blog post, it just called to me - as did my Christmas papers. I die-cut the white circles with Penny Black dies (thanks, Darnell!) and the matting circles with Nestabilities. The sentiment panels are popped up on foam squares. 

And here are the two "bonus" cards I promised you. I post nearly every card that I make, so I felt I should share these, also, even though they are nearly identical to yesterday's card and didn't deserve their own post. The main pieces were already done and I got them with the die from Darnell. I ink-blended color on a circle to place them on. I added the sentiment across the middle. I used a die plate to make the background.

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Christmas-y Trees

My friend, Vicki, made a card that I thought was very pretty, and I made these cards using her technique. You can find her card on her January 11 and 12 posts. I made the following card first and thought it looked plain - since I forgot to emboss it. But then, I kind of liked the plain one better! But, maybe I'll make another and only emboss the top part - that would look best, I think. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn.

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Sparkly Warm Wishes

No big surprise - I have more Christmas cards to share over the next few days. You can not tell in the photo, but this is a VERY sparkly card. I used white glitter cardstock to emboss the image. I also used a brush to add ink very lightly over the embossing, but you really can't see that, either. Oh well. I matted with shimmery paper and stamped the sentiment in a matching color. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. 

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Sparkly Purple Birthday Wishes

Using up another die-cut that I received from a friend - this time the lattice frame. (And actually, I have this same die.) I mounted it on a piece of purple glitter paper. I cut a white oval the same shape as the center of the die-cut and embossed it with a Darice embossing folder. I die-cut the "birthday" (which is from My Favorite Things) from the same glitter cardstock and layered it with white die-cuts. The "WISHES" is from a Lawn Fawn sentiment. The bottom layer is an ancient piece of Stampin' Up! patterned paper.

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More Christmas

Well, I have three more Christmas cards to share with you today! Not sure what's up with that. :) Actually, I love making Christmas cards, and this year I know that I can make extras and donate them to the thrift store that a friend works at!

So, after I made yesterday's card, I put the snowflake Impressability away. But, I decided that I would use it again, so I got it out and I made these cards. For this first one, I inked up the Impressability with soft silver ink, then embossed. I matted with shimmery silver cardstock. I added a strip of vellum towards the bottom. Then I added a die-cut sentiment, which I cut from silver glitter cardstock, and also three times from white, and layered them together.

For this second one, I used it like a stencil and used blue ink. I matted with blue. I stamped the sentiment, from Lawn Fawn, with black ink on vellum and embossed with black embossing powder.

This third card is a combination of the first two - same technique as the first card and same sentiment as the second one.

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Last (again!) Christmas Cards

Here, once again :) is my last Christmas card for this year. I made two of these. The ornament, hanger and bow are all die-cut. The ornament is three layers and the bow is two layers. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn and is embossed with gold powder. The ornament is layered on top of the white layer, and the hanger/string is die-cut into the white layer and backed with silver.

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Two More Christmas Cards

Both of these folders are from Darice. For this first one, I used an ink cube to rub ink over the embossing. Matted it and it was done.

On this one, I simply added a sentiment from Lawn Fawn embossed with gold.

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And More Christmas Cards

The patterned paper on these cards is from a matstack from Hobby Lobby. The die-cut ornaments are three layers topped with a gold foil layer. I believe the dies are from Memory Box. The sentiments are embossed with gold powder and is from Lawn Fawn. The sentiment panels are popped up with foam squares.

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Christmas Card Parts

Three more card parts used on these Christmas cards. And three more Christmas cards finished. :) I'm pretty sure this border stencil is from Darice. The tree and the sentiment are from Papertrey Ink. I colored the tree with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. I added Diamond Glaze to the berries.

I'm pretty sure this die is also from Darice. It's cut from light gray cardstock. I covered it with Versamark ink and embossed with sparkly embossing powder. The patterned paper is from a Recollections matstack. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn.

The part on this card is the snowflake. I covered it with Versamark ink, one coat of sparkly embossing powder and then three layers of ultra-thick embossing powder. I embossed the background with a Sizzix folder. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Snowflake Christmas

This card was made with another piece that I die-cut with a friend's die. I think it's from Memory Box. It's supposed to have two pieces coming out the left side, also, but I messed it up. It was too pretty to toss, though. I added it to a strip of blue which I scored with my Scor-Pal along the top and bottom. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. I cut the panel to 4 x 5.25 and added it to a white card base.

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Happy Hanukkah

This isn't really a Hanukkah card, but it's the one I made for this year. I had these snowflakes on my table and put them all on one card. I used silver embossing powder for the sentiment, which is from Lawn Fawn. I matted with shimmery silver paper.

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December Calendar Page

And now we have arrived at December!! Here is my calendar page for this month.

I used just part of a Darice embossing folder for the image. I matted with red. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn.

There are links on the "Calendar" page of my blog, which you can reach by clicking the tab under my blog title. I have now uploaded the files for 2020. I would love to hear from you if you use the files!

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