The first card I made this season was this one. It folds flat for mailing when you omit the battery operated tea light inside. The window and sentiment are Stampin' Up dies and stamp as is the image done on vellum. I really liked this until it hit me that a flickering glow would be from a fireplace or candle inside the house, not out in the snow. Unless the house is on fire, this shouldn't be!
The sky has a watercolor wash, the snow has a bit of white sparkle on it by way of a glue pen and sprinkle of fine glitter. It needed some greenery and thankfully, a friend came through with a baggie of greens from a punch that I believe was from the Martha Stewart line and has been discontinued. That looked much better, and I was happiest when I added some red berries (Stickles). I made 15 cards in this style.
My knitting group members were recipients of this card made with Lawn Fawn's Baaah Humbug stamps. The black background was done with a white ink pad over Tim Holtz' Holiday Knit layering stencil. Since not much of it showed on the front but did look like a ski sweater design, I used a bit of that on the inside, writing my own greeting.
This card may not have happened, certainly not by the dozen, without the use of a Misti stamping tool. See the Misti here I avoided this purchase for a long time because of the price but haven't regretted once since that first use.
Another group of friends received this card which was fun to do, assembly line style. The instructions came from Connie Stewart's blog detailed here. The stamped sentiment is from Laugh Out Loud Christmas by Clearly Besotted.
One neighbor with young children didn't need them confused by the above sentiment, so his house received this card. The stamp is Jolly Santa by Woodware Clear Magic Singles. Santa's face is marker and colored pencil, hat and background are markers, his beard is glue and white glitter and his eyeglasses have a coat of clear gelly roll pen on the lenses.
One more Stampin' Up die got a lot of use this year, the Delicate Ornaments die. I used it on glittery paper from a pad purchased at Target and on metallic papers from either Michaels or Joann's. Those were my favorite. The weight of the paper made them easy to work with.
Silver metallic over green glitter on left, Silver over white cardstock on right.
Silver metallic over green glitter on both.
Left has yellow glitter and silver metallic over gold background, right has silver metallic and red metallic over gold. I have no idea how I should have photographed these. They look much better in person.
These ornaments were from a matte gold, textured paper. The branches were embossed with matte gold powder.
It would have made more sense to pick one card and make all of them the same but choosing just one design is like picking your favorite child....impossible!
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