Christmas Tree Card

Hi all and if you are stopping by from Card A Day Blog welcome. The theme this week at Card A Day Blog is Christmas at Home and this card is for the memories of growing up at home. We didn't do alot of outdoor lights, but inside the house the tree would take center stage and in the front window. Mom would get the tree up (Dad probably helped with this but I never seen) and the lights on the tree and my brothers, my sister and I would help with decorating the tree. That tree would be up from shortly after Thanksgiving till during the New Year's holiday. So this card is in her memory:

This is a clean and simple card that I made in just a couple of hours today. I love making Christmas Cards cause I seem to experiment more in the embossing side of cardmaking. This is how the card came to be:

I had gotten some new embossing
powder at my local scrapbook store called Black Sparkle from Ranger. I like to stamp images and use the embossing powder to give more umph to the stamped image on a card. You can't see the sparkle so well on the pictures here but this stuff adds a bit of sparkle to the black.

I also stamped both the front sentiment and the inside card sentiment with this embossing powder and chalked the image with Stampin Up garden green chalk. It turned out really sharp! The picture doesn't do it justice:

I die cut the stamped tree and the inside sentiment with Spellbinders Classic Scallop Ovals Large set using the largest die. I really like using these dies cause you see exactly where it's going to cut (fussy cut). I also punched out the front sentiment with Stamping Up extra-large scallop oval.

The card was cut out from the heritage paper pack of The Paper Company A2 size and the green diagonal paper is from a DCWV paper pack The Christmas Combo pack that I got last year. The photo on the right is the inside of the card as I brought the same paper to the inside of the card.

All stamps used are from Stampin Up in various collections, the front sentiment was stuck with 1/16" foam dots.The pieces on each side came from some card stock that I was experimenting with last year when I was trying out a new technique. The technique that I was working on was double embossing by dry embossing the cardstock in a cuttlebug folder (Winter Trees) then wet and heat embossed with Ranger's silver tinsel (which is really thick). So I punched out the trees with a Martha Steward 1" starburst punch and they looked like charms and gave a bit of bling to the card. So this card only took a few hours to cut, stamp, emboss, die-cut and put together a very simple card with a nice impact. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial on this card and keep an eye out on more cards made over the next few weeks here and at Card A Day Blog for any inspiration needed to make your own Christmas cards to give this year. Share a few memories too. Have a great day...

The Challenges I have added this card to are:
Clear it out Challenge post a project of your favorite holiday, using any item from your stash

Come and Get it Challenges anything goes challenge

Sweet Stampin'  anything goes challenge
The Cuttlebug Spot  anything goes challenge

Happy Hauntings

Hi you all and if any of you are from the Card a Day Blog I welcome you to my blog. Wow this month just flew on by....didn't even have time to make at least one card a week. October should be a bit different and I can at least get a card out a week if not more. Christmas card season is just around the corner and I want to be prepared for it. So enough of that let's talk about today's card:

This card was made with the masking technique which was a ton of fun to do. I did this card in my Close to My Heart club at the local scrap store, so I don't have any extra pictures but I hope I explain it well and will do another card doing the same technique and show the steps through the pictures. The masking technique is to cover part of the card some way while working on the rest of the card. The mask was the circle for the moon. We then chalked the background (with Stampin' Up chalk (got to get me some of that)) in blue and lightly with the black. Took off the mask and colored the moon with light yellow, tore the green cardstock, stamped the image (Close to My Heart stamp set) to stick out away from the green. Taped the green cardstock on added the baker's twine and threaded through the button and tied the knot. Added the sentiment. It was a quick card and alot of fun to make. I want to use this technique for a Christmas card, I think it will be a fantastic was to show off some snowflakes. Thanks all for stopping by and check back, I'll have another Halloween card up soon.