Christmas Cards - Believe

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Right now I am in the middle of my holiday cards for Christmas! Yeah!  I love this time of year. The papers are so beautiful this year.  Have you checked out Bo Bunny yet? Wow!

This weekend's cards feature pear shapes.  I think I am in a pear phase because I really like to use the shape (don't like to eat them too much though).

Today's card is entitled "Believe".

I punched all my pears out of glitter cardstock in green and one in gold.  I used burgundy ribbon for my bow.  My background paper comes from the Remembrance Collection at Michaels.  I really liked the sleigh.  This card needed some dark background paper to show off the glitter pears.

Close Up!

Martha Stewart has this tiny little tag punch that works perfectly for my little card.  I took some patterned paper and punched out the tag with a bit of the design in it.  Then I stamped the word believe in black.  Easy and done!

This is a close up of one of my pear punch outs.  Fiskars came out with a pear punch that has a very pleasing shape to it.  You can also cut off the leaf and have a shape to use for a Russian doll or a snowman!

Hope you enjoyed today's card.  Come back tomorrow for another pear themed Christmas Card!

Lis

Jingle Cat

Hi and welcome back to this season's first Christmas cards (well, my first Christmas cards...LOL!).

Today's card features something a little different...Angel playing cards!

I love to use playing cards in my greeting cards and scrapbooking.  There are some really neat kinds where the pictures on the cards are all different. It's like getting 52 different paintings!  This deck is called Christmas Angels and I bought it from SkyBluePink.  The backs of all the cards feature the bell and holly. BUT the fronts feature different Christmas scenes.  The kitten below is just one.  As you can see I cut out the part that shows the suits (although I could have kept this one because it was hearts).

I know that the color of the mat paper now looks dark purple but its actually not the camera this time.  Its actually the paper turning color as I move the card.  It is a line of paper called Iridescent from a company called Graphic Products Corp.  They have a beautiful line of scrapbooking papers.  Here is the link if you are curious.  http://www.gpcpapers.com/showproducts.cfm?categoryid=166  Check out the Florentine papers also. They will knock your socks off.  All of the scrapbooking papers are acid free.  (GPC also has many handmade papers.)  If you like paper, these are to die for.

Close Up!

Don't you just love this little Jingle Bell punch? (Fiskars)

I took some jewels and made this arrangement.

I love this little kitten.

Thanks for stopping by. Come back again for more Christmas cards!

Lis