Have Yourself a Merry Christmas - Card

Hi All!

Here is a card that I made for my niece and her family.  I really like the background paper.  Some of the images are glossy and the rest matte.  All of the images are vintage, which I like.

 Items Used:

• Gold Flowers - Michaels
• Red Glossy Card - Kelly Paper
• Card Base - white card
• Matte design - not sure where I got this.  I really liked the old timely pictures.
• Red pearls - Michaels?
• Christmas Brads - Time Holtz Idea ology - Michaels
• Sentiment Sticker - Paper Wishes - Dazzles

I had to use a plain piece of card or paper to place my sentiment on otherwise it wasn't going to show up.  I chose a red glossy piece.  I punched some holes, one in each corner and inserted the brads.  I really like the "25th" brad.  The sticker is from a set - they are a white sparkle (not glitter0 with a gold edging.

I knew I needed to fill in this spot with something.  I didn't want to use ribbon because I have to mail this to New York.  I chose these pearls.  They are smaller and hopefully will go through without a problem.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lis

Christmas Cheer Card

Hi everyone!

Its getting close to Christmas.  I thought I would have time to create many Christmas cards (I bet they are your favorite to make as much as mine) but time got the better of me - and here it is, just 5 days before Christmas! Yikes!

I did have some time to make a few more Christmas cards for family. So, I thought I would share them.

Items Used:

• CHEERS Die - Paper Wishes Paper Artist Series
• Blue coarse glitter card stock, pink/purple matte foiled card stock - Create and Craft
• Gold Glossy Card stock - Kelly Paper
• Gold Bows - Anna Griffin
• Collaged pieces - actually playing cards with Victorian pictures on them - Sky Blue Pink
• Gold Paint Pen - Krylon
• Card Base - pain white card
• Red pearls - Michaels I think

Here is a detail shot of the die cut.

These are two of the playing cards I used as collage elements.  The set is lovely (Victorian Playing Cards - referring to the pictures on them, not the style.)  I cut off the edges and used a hole punch to cut out the corners.  I edged them in gold paint pen.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lis

Merry Christmas - a Vintage Christmas Card

Hello fellow crafters,

I love vintage, Victorian cards.

Items used:

• Hunkydory Classic Christmas Card Collection
• white card for the base
• silver snowflake stickers and gold sentiment - Dazzles by Paper Wishes

I wish that I could take credit for this GORGEOUS card but it comes from a card kit.  This is but ONE of the cards in it.

This particular card kit has a lot of decoupaging with many layers.  You can see that with the poinsettias.  Everything has gold foil edging.

I added some snowflake stickers to the centers of the flowers on the front...

And scattered snowflakes on the inside along with a sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by.

Lis

Father Christmas - a card

This is my favorite card so far for this season.  I love the shape of the card and the contrasting white with dark green foliage.

 Items used:

• card base - white card
• die used - Tonic
• Tonic has these "verso" dies where the pattern can be cut into the card rather than out of it as a separate piece. This is what I used to get the opening on the front of my card where the red from the inside of the card shows through.
• This particular set also comes with the outer dies that cut the shape.
• The die for the green foliage - unfortunately I cannot remember.  I believe that I got it at Paper WIshes.com.
• Paper Wishes - embossing folder for the front of the card
• stickles glitter glue for the centers of the embossed areas
• forest green suede paper for the foliage - Paper Wishes
• gold flowers - michaels
• gold glossy and red glossy card
• image - This was cut from a 12 x 12 paper.  I cut the image itself down also to fit the size I wanted for my center.  I was able to meld two parts of the image to make it look like Santa was holding the bag.  In actuality the bag is at his feet in the original image.  Pretty cool, huh?

Here is a great close up of the green foliage.  I love that the suede paper was embossed.  The embossed parts look lighter in color but in fact it is the same piece of forest suede paper.

Here's a look at the embossing I did and the addition of glitter.

Thanks for stopping by!
Lis

Velveteen background - girl with Christmas Tree

 Items used:

• Patterned velvet background - anna griffin
• Red glitter damask design mat - anna griffin
• Bling - Michaels
• Image - Hunkydory
• Ribbon - anna griffin

I saw the bling at Michaels and had to get it.  It reminds me of Art Deco.  I did cut down the ends a bit so that it would fit onto my card.

I really like how the red on red tones look.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lis

Christmas Carolers

Items Used:

• Hunkydory image
• gold glossy, red glossy for mats
• embossed copper grey metallic card- create and craft
• string of pearls - Hobby House
• Red ribbon - Reasonable ribbon

I wanted the ribbon ends to swirl around the card.  I'm still not sure that I like how it ended up.

Thanks for stopping by, Lis

Festive Christmas Card

 Hi everyone,

Today's car includes some hand coloring.  I love to color but I'm not a good artist (that means I usually cant keep within the lines). 

 Items used:

• Tattered Lace Die used for card base shape and for foil cut outs
• Shadow Collection - Meadow Sweet
• silver foil card (matte), red gloss card
• spectrum noire in red and green
• image was from a Christmas 12 x 12 paper pad that had vintage images

To make the card:

1. I cut two pieces of the "card" out of white card stock.
2. I used one piece for the front and the other for the back.
• I took a ruler and embossed a line on the left side of my 'back' piece of paper and folded on the line.  This folded tab was what I glued to the front piece to make the whole card without losing the full front image.
3. I cut the inner die cut twice, once from silver foil card and once from red glossy card.
4. I cut off most of the red parts except the large rose parts in the upper right and lower left corners.  These were layers under the silver foil piece so that they just showed.  I did this ti give a bit of red color to the card.
5. I added the silver foil die cut to the front of the card and glued that down.
6. I colored in the leaves and the flowers with green and red.
7. The inside of the card is not shown but I added a little sentiment there also.

Lis

Merry Christmas - boy with presents

 Today's card is using a reverse technique.  instead of layering the center, I layered the fram and the center is depressed.

Items Used:

• Hunkydory frame and sentiment from Classic Christmas
• card base - white card
• card mat - create and craft
• bow - anna griffin

Thank you for stopping by, Lis

Charmed Christmas

 Hi everyone!

Have you started making your cards yet? Or are you thinking please just let me digest my Thanksgiving meal for another day or so....LOL.  This year has gone so fast!

 Items used:

• sticker - anna griffin
• card base - create and craft
• flowers - michaels
• charms - Hobby House (UK)
• alcohol ink to color tree charm in green and angel in gold: Spectrum noire and gold paint pen
• die - Tattered Lace card bases - ovals
• stickles glitter glue for centers of gold flowers
• gold thread - JoAnns

 Note:  I just purchased some gold plating liquid so I will be plating some charms.  That should be interesting.

Thanks for stopping by!
Lis

Christmas Roses Card

Hi everyone! 

Tis the season....to make Christmas cards!  I do love all the sparkle and bling.  I hope that you enjoy the next week or so of  card inspiration.  Please leave comments or vote below at the end.  I appreciate all comments.  After all that's how we learn!

Items used:

• Bling - Michaels
• Roses - Wild Orchid Craft (or Really Reasonable Ribbon - they are carrying these also)
• die for card base - Tattered Lace Card bases - ovals
• card - create and craft
• sticker - anna griffin

I've been experimenting with different shaped cards lately so many of my cards are other than rectangle/A2 size.  (I'm not being original...LOL.... I think I'm behind the times actually.)

Hope you enjoy.

Lis

Halloween Cards!

Hi everyone!

Well, am I behind!  I did make a few Halloween cards this year and they are below.  Enjoy!

First up:  A kitty!  I love kitties and this pretty little guys seems ready to go out Halloween night! 

Items used:

• Orange and black glitter card - create and craft
• ribbon from Really reasonable ribbon
• kitty from Graphic 45

Next: BOO!

Items used:

• Banner and spider - anna griffin stickers
• Orange patterned paper - anna griffin
• purple and green dots and accents - Ranger enamel
• charm - Idea-ology - tim holtz

Onward: Its Halloween!

Items used:

• stickers - anna griffin
• paper anna griffin
• wood bingo chip - sky blue pink
• dark orange paper  create and craft

And Upward! Frightful Halloween...

Items used:

• tattered lace spider web die
• Martha stewart border punch
• ribbon - michaels
• papers - anna griffin
• sticker - anna griffin
• moon - tim holtz ephemera
• orange enamel dots - ranger

This was my favorite.  I really love how the spider webs in each corner worked with the papers.  There is ribbon on this card.  It looks like washi tape with writing but it is actually ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by.  I will  be posting Christmas cards starting tomorrow.

Lis

Blue Flower Butterfly Card

Hi everyone!

Today's card uses some beautiful paper tole.

Items used:

• Paper tole flowers and butterfly by Hot Off The Press
• papers by Crafters Companion - Downton Abbey Line
• Gold Glossy card
• Blue Silk Foil Card
• Anna Griffin pop up die - Banner
• Powder blue pearls
• Map paper - Hunkydory
• Pearl Letters - Michaels Craft Store

I was using a die for another project and there were these little stars in the waste so I used them here.

Don't you just love pearls!

The surprise inside...

I really liked the map paper.  The picture doesn't show it well but the color of the sea is really a pretty blue.

Thanks for stopping by!
Lis

September 11th

September 11th was a horrifying day in United States history.

I pray for peace and rationality, and remembrance. 

Lis

Dowbton Abbey Car Card

Hi all,

The picture of the car on this card is a bit wonky.  I fixed it and it looks a lot better now...LOL.  Unfortunately I couldn't fix the gold background.  Its still on a tilt.  Oh well, a learning opportunity!

Items used:

• Downton Abbey Dies (car, feather, the Abbey)
• Downton Abbey paper
• Tonic card die (verso)
• gem brads
• Bo Bunny Brads
• silver glitter card
• gold glossy card
• White card for the card base
• dark brown card (The name of this cardstock is Canyon Brown and is a linen cardstock/cover made by Neenah.  It is the most beautiful and rich color brown I've been able to find.  You can order it through either Kelly Paper or The Paper Mill Store.  Neenah also makes a rich rich black called Epic Black.  It is also part of Neenah's Linen Line.  This is a deep rich black that I truly love.)

I had planned to cut out the entire gold background but it didn't cut completely.  Rather than try to match it back up to the die (that never seems to work for me on foil.  It always shows a second cut line.) I decided to add what I had as a distressed piece.  I added the Downton Abbey in silver glitter in front and behind the car (which I SWEAR has straight lights now!)

I really like the brads from Bo Bunny.  They are old fashioned so that is what I used here.  I probably should have used another color for the feather rather than gold again so that it would stand out more.

Take care, Lis

Longing for the Sea Card

Items Used: (Card size: 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches)

• Golden Peach, Green Silk/Satin card
• Spectrum noir Watercolor pencils
• Heartfelt Creations Under the Sea stamps and dies
• Trimcraft First Edition Leaf Die
• Graphic 45 Sea themed paper
• Tonic Frame Die
• Dried star fish and sea dollar (Michaels)
• Hot glue
• Light green pearls
• White card for card base
• Anna Griffin swirl (gold and white) with a gold heart (I had this as a leftover and added it behind my turtle.)

Hi everyone!

I purchased the Heartfelt Under the Sea collection with the dies and stamps.  Its SO pretty!  I used watercolors to color my stamped items and then die cut them.

I didn't have any seaweed so I used some die cut leaves. I think they came out ok.

Thanks for stopping by,

Lis

Fleur de Paris Card

Items used:

• Paper roses from Wild Orchid Crafts
• Green pearls
• Die cut from K&Co
• Washi Tape (yes, the gold fancy border) - Michaels
• paper from Crafters Companion Downton Abbey Line
• gold foil card
• lavender card for card base

Thanks for stopping by!

Lis

Three Flowers Card

Items Used:

• Tonic Verso dies
• Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen-green
• Green gems
• Drab green organza ribbon
• White card

This is actually a brightly colored card.  I think I didn't get enough light on my card to get a decent picture.

I just got some "verso" dies from Tonic.  These are dies that can cut into the paper or cut out something from paper.  I was really intrigued by the former so I got a set from Create and Craft (my new favorite channel to watch).

I cut the flowers into the card and backed them with silk foiled card in different colors. (Tonic gives you an outline die in case you want to cut the flower out and have a die cut.  The dies are fairly intricate.  They cut very nicely.

I didn't do a very good job making leaves though...LOL.  I should have cut some out instead of trying to paint them on.  I have a pretty picture in my mind of what I want to do  - sometimes the hands don't follow the mind!

A last look...

Thanks for stopping by!

Lis

Rose Wonder Card

Items used:

• paper bow - Hunkydory
• die cuts: Anna Griffin, Hot Off the Press,
• gold German scrap
• patterned paper - K&Co
• lime green shimmer paper

Here are more views:

These little paper bows are cute and I like the silver foiling on them.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lis

Blue Butterfly Card

Hi all,

This is my very first foray into 8 x 8 cards.  I've been watching Create and Craft on my PC and it seems that everyone in Europe makes cards that are 7 x 7 o 8 x 8.  So, I wanted to give it a whirl.  I wasn't sure that I would have enough stuff and ideas to fill up such a large card.

Items Used:

• Hunkydory Little Book of Butterflies & map paper
• Ecstasy Crafts Ticket Punch and plastic ticket domes
• tiny words - Tim Holtz
• Blue wrinkle ribbon - May Arts
• black card for mats
• white card for card base

Although this looks like I matted and layered it, its all one picture.

Close up of the bow and ticket embellishments.

A last look.

I hope that I did ok!  Did you like it?

Thanks for any comments, I always appreciate them.

Lis