Red Velvet Christmas Card

Hi everyone!  Today's card is a pretty red and white card It looks plain when you first glance at it but look closer and see the detail!

Materials:

• card base - white
• red suede paper
• Martha Stewart punch
• Gold border dazzles by hot off the press
• embossing folder (I used an ornate rose pattern)

First of all, don't you like the Martha Stewart border punch?  It comes with a corner for punch around the page and its a large design.  I love the swirls and snowflakes.

I embossed the red suede paper and then added it to my card.  (So, the inside of my card will not show any embossing).  Suede paper embosses really well and creates  crisp, clean images and lines.

Here is a close up of the embossing. There seems to be a little white fluff but its not on the card.

 

To create my edge, I punched it with the border punch, then added a plain piece of red velvet underneath.  You cant see it but I did add a gold dazzle about 1.8 inch above that red velvet piece.
If you look at the card you will also see a gold border dazzle on the front next to the punched design.

Thanks for stopping by. COme agaian for more Christmas card inspiration!
LIS

Christmas Greetings Card

 

 

This Christmas card is really bright! The silver foil card stock really shines! 

I am sure that you recognize the Tim Holtz dies that I used (the sentiment and the pine branch).  This year was so exciting because of the number of dies in each package.  He really designed a lot of words.  I love the play between block and script too!

Materials:

• Frantic Stamper Dies (Snowflakes)
• Tim Holtz Dies
• Silver Foil Card stock
• Red card stock (poppy by Neenah in the Linen line - love this line of card stock. I use it almost exclusively for my cards)
• green, gold, blue glitter card
• red foil card
• red suede paper (for the word "Christmas")

The card is actually pretty easy to make.  The only step that I want to mention is the sentiment.

Steps:
1. I took the Greeting die and placed it on my silver foil card.  I kept it in place with a tiny bit of tape.
2. I ran it through my cuttlebug and die cut the word into my silver foil card. ( When I attach the solver foil to my card base, the red of the card base will show through)
3. I used red suede paper and the Christmas script word die to die cut the word Christmas.
4. I attached the silver oil to my card base
5. I adhered the word Christmas onto my card as you see in the pictures.

 

 

 Its very cool!

Other pics:

The snowflake was layered using three snowflakes.

Hope you enjoyed my card!
Lis

Peace, a Christmas Card

 

Let the holidays begin! 

 

I love making Christmas cards.  Every year I promise myself that I'm not going to buy any more papers. Then the stores come out with new papers and I fall in love with something.  Its amazing to me that the designers for these companies can continue to come up with such wonderful designs and colors!

 

 

 

I don't know that I had an inspiration for this card. Sometimes I just sit down and make a card.  Of course, Its always easy to create when you have great materials like the frantic Stamper dies! 

I started out with KaiserCraft's new Christmas Line: Mistletoe. It's very pretty, full of distressed red, chartreuse and blue.  I used white card stock as my card base and added a mat of silver glossy and then the "Tinsel" which is the name of the polka dot paper in my background.

I cut my trees from green suede paper (It adds a richness and is very suede feeling...if that makes sense.  I love it on my cards because it is a neat texture for others to touch.) As you can see, I used two sets of the trees.  One of the small tree sets I cut off so that I could have "little" trees in the front.  I trimmed the trunks so that all the trees would go behind my ribbon.

 

I wanted to use snowflakes on my card and decided on banners.  I cut my snowflakes out of gold and blue glitter card stock and red foil card stock. (These dies cut so nice!  Even my Martha Stewart punch couldn't handle the gold glitter card stock!)

 

 The photo doesn't do this card justice. The snowflakes are very sparkly!

Lis      

Butterflies in Flight

 

Today's card is inspired by the many butterfly paintings, cards and art projects that I'm seeing in the web.  I love all the butterfly cluster projects. Butterflies are so feminine and delicate.

I started by using Frantic Stamper's Petite Butterflies (. I love this die for two reasons: 1-everything is on a single flat die which means I can't lose little pieces, and 2-there are three sizes of butterflies!   I die cut my butterflies using blue sticker foil. I prepared the sticker foil by adding it to plain card stock and then embossing it.  I cu two sets of butterflies. I didn't use the butterfly bodies that are also on the die (how nice!).

 

To prepare my card, all I did was to choose a pretty blue pattern paper (DCWV) and cut another card panel (Daisy Circles) out of white shimmer paper.  This was layered onto a white card stock base.

 

I arranged the butterflies, largest at the bottom and smallest at the top, few at the bottom and more at the top.  I also had them flying slightly to the left.  I attached my butterflies with a drop of liquid glue in the center so that the wings could be folded up.

I hope you enjoyed my butterfly card.

Lis