Christmas Cards - Christmas Greetings

Hi everyone!  Today's card is called Christmas Greetings and has a pear design in it.

I am working with a lot of brown colors lately. Maybe it's the richness of the color, maybe it's fall...but it's fabulous!

I love the way the red satin ribbon pops!

Close Up!

I punched this little tag from the Bo Bunny papers I got from http://www.franticstamper.com/.  You should check them out. They are rich, old fashioned, deep colors that remind me of Christmases past.

I used a Sizzix embossing folder on brown cardstock.  This is the only one I know of that goes 5 1/4 inches across.  Also this folder design goes to the edge.  Very nice!.

You also might be wondering where I got this brown cardstock from .  None other than Kelly Paper.  It is made by Neenah and is called Canyon Brown.  It is a lot richer brown in person than in this picture.  Heavy cardstock there is also called "cover".

Yesterday's card featured punched out pear shapes in glittered cardstock.  Today's card uses the negative of those punches.

Hope you enjoyed today's card!  Come back next week for more Christmas cards 2011!

Lis

Christmas Cards - Believe

Hi and welcome to my blog!  Remember that you can sign up to follow my blog and never miss a post!  I post almost every weekend and usually 1-2 cards.

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