Another Christmas Card

  Hello fellow stampers, crafters, and friends!  Today I'm going to share another card with you that I made for Christmas.  I have been making quite a few Christmas cards lately to prep for the upcoming sales that I am sure I will have. This one takes a bit of time ad several items but I think it is worth making!

Let's go ahead and get started.  By the way, if you don't usually watch videos but are confused, please see my video for better understanding.  This was a hard one for me to type up!

Items needed for this card: (in no particular order)

* Christmas to Remember stamp set
* Christmas Pinecone Dies
* Christmas Season stamp set
* Seasonal Labels Dies
* Basic White card stock
* Crumb Cake card stock
* Evening Evergreen card stock
* Soft Succulent card stock
* Painted Christmas DSP
* Early Espresso ink pad
* Crumb Cake ink pad
* Evening Evergreen ink pad
* 2021-2023 In Color Shimmer Vellum (Soft Succulent)
* Evening Evergreen Chevron Weave Ribbon
* Blocks B, C, D, H
* Paper Snips
* Adhesive(s) of choice
* Stampin' Dimensionals
* Stampin' Cut and Emboss machine (or die cutting machine of choice)
* Paper trimmer
* Stampin' Scrub (or something to clean your stamps)
* Stampin' Mist

                                          

Dimensions: 

* 8.5" x 5.5" Soft Succulent card stock, folded in half at 4.25"
* 4 1/8" x 3 1/8" Crumb Cake card stock
* 4" x 3" DSP
* 3 1/8" x 2 5/8" Crumb Cake card stock
* 3" x 2.5" DSP
* Scrap of Soft Succulent Shimmer Vellum
* 5.5" x 4.25" Evening Evergreen card stock (for die cutting)
* Scraps of Crumb Cake and Early Espresso card stock (for die cutting)
* 5.25" x 4" Basic White card stock for inside panel

How to:

* Fold your card base in half at 4.25".
* Die cut using Evening Evergreen, the large piece that is pinecone and boughs. Cut off a small piece of this, for just 3 pine cones and some boughs.  (See photo if needed.)
* Die cut 3 pine cones. you'll want both the detailed piece and the background piece for each pinecone.
* Die cut the shimmer vellum using a label die from the Seasonal Labels Die set.
* Adhere the larger DSP piece to its mat and the smaller DSP piece to its mat.  
* Adhere the smaller piece to the larger piece, set toward the bottom right.
* Wrap some Evening Evergreen Chevron Weave ribbon around this and tie a knot on the left side.

* Adhere this piece to the card base, toward the right side.  (See photo if needed.)

* Adhere the detailed pinecone pieces to their backs.  Then adhere the whole pinecones to the large pinecone and bough piece that you had cut off earlier.
* Adhere the shimmer die cut piece over the ribbon using dimensionals.  Only do this in the center so that you can't see the dimensionals when done!
* Adhere the pinecones to the shimmer vellum piece.
* Stamp your sentiment on the left hand side of the card base.
* Stamp the inside panel as you see fit- I did a pinecone and some bows.  Adhere this inside the card.

Your card is complete!

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Remember, you can still get all the wonderful things in the Mini Catalog as well as the Annual catalog!  If you place an order in my online store, please use this hostess code when asked. RZCARA9H  It helps me to bring you more card creations and to send goodies to you (as my customer)!  However, if your order is more than $150, retail, please do not use the code as you will earn your own host(ess) benefits!

Don't have a demonstrator and need catalogs? Contact me!

Feel free to check out the video linked above and comment below with a picture of your own creation!  As always, I would appreciate any business and would love to be your demonstrator!  Happy Stampin'!

A Christmas Card

 Hello fellow stampers, crafters, and friends!  Today I'm going to share a card with you that I made for Christmas.  I have been making quite a few Christmas cards lately to prep for the upcoming sales that I am sure I will have. So quick and easy and can be done with so many papers, colors, stamps, etc.! 

Let's go ahead and get started.  

Items needed for this card: (in no particular order)

* Poinsettia Petals stamp set
* Poinsettia Dies
* Tasteful Textiles Embossing Folder
* Thick Basic White card stock
* Basic White card stock
* Cheery Cobbler card stock
* Garden Green card stock
* Snowy White Velvet Sheets
* Cherry Cobbler ink pad
* Block D
* 2021-2023 In Color Jewels
* Adhesive(s) of choice 
* Stampin' Cut and Emboss machine (or die cutting machine of choice)
* Paper trimmer
* Stampin' Scrub (or something to clean your stamps)
* Stampin' Mist

                                          

Dimensions: 

* 8.5" x 5.5" Thick Basic White card stock, folded in half at 4.25"
* 5 1/8" x 3 7/8" Garden Green card stock
* 5" x 3.75" Basic White card stock
* 5" x 3.75" Cherry Cobbler card stock- to be embossed and cut corner to corner, diagonally.
* A strip of a Snowy White Velvet sheet, at around 3" x 8"
* Scrap of Garden Green card stock- for leaves, if not using center of panel piece listed above.

How to:

* Fold your card base in half at 4.25".
* Die cut the three different sizes of poinsettia petals from the Snowy White Velvet sheet.  You'll want to use both the outside piece and the inside piece, as the inside piece embosses.
* Die cut 3-4 leaves in Garden Green.  Again, use the outside and inside pieces. (I did this from the center of the Garden Green card stock so that I can save paper.)
* Emboss your Cherry Cobbler card stock using the Tasteful Textile embossing folder. 

* Cut the Cherry Cobbler piece in half, corner to corner, diagonally.
* Adhere the Cherry Cobbler piece to the white panel, in the lower right corner.

* Stamp your sentiment in Cherry Cobbler in the upper left corner- quite close to the corner.
* Adhere this piece to the Garden Green piece.

* Adhere this panel to the card base.
* Adhere the three petal pieces together, lining the leaves up opposite of each other as you go. (See video for more.)
* Adhere the leaves, setting the flower in place to decide overall placement of leaves.
* Adhere the flower once leaves are adhered.
* Adhere the Pale Papaya In Color Jewels to the center of the the flower.

Your card is complete!

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Remember, you can still get all the wonderful things in the Mini Catalog as well as the Annual catalog!  If you place an order in my online store, please use this hostess code when asked. RZCARA9H  It helps me to bring you more card creations and to send goodies to you (as my customer)!  However, if your order is more than $150, retail, please do not use the code as you will earn your own host(ess) benefits!

Don't have a demonstrator and need catalogs? Contact me!

Feel free to check out the video linked above and comment below with a picture of your own creation!  As always, I would appreciate any business and would love to be your demonstrator!  Happy Stampin'!

A Simple Christmas Card

 Hello fellow stampers, crafters, and friends!  Today I'm going to share a card with you that I made for a team swap.  The theme was "clean and simple Christmas".  So quick and easy and can be done with so many papers, colors, stamps, etc.! 

Let's go ahead and get started.  

Items needed for this card: (in no particular order)

* Christmas To Remember stamp set
* Christmas Season stamp set
* Seasonal Labels Dies
* Espresso card stock
* Crumb Cake card stock
* Very Vanilla card stock
* Real Red card stock
* Painted Christmas DSP
* Gold Holly Leaves
* Early Espresso ink pad
* Real Red ink pad
* Garden Green ink pad
* Red Rhinestones
* Bone Folder
* Block 
* Block D
* Adhesive(s) of choice 
* Stampin' Dimensionals
* Paper trimmer
* Stampin' Scrub (or something to clean your stamps)
* Stampin' Mist

                                          

Dimensions: 

* 8.5" x 5.5" Early Espresso card stock
* 5 3/8" x 4 1/8" Crumb Cake card stock
* 4 1/8" x 2.5" Painted Christmas DSP
* 4 1/8" x 1.5" Real Red card stock
* 3 7/16" x 3/8" Blackberry Bliss card stock
* Scrap of Very Vanilla card stock
* 5.25" x 4" Very Vanilla card stock (inside panel)

How to:

* Fold your card base in half at 4.25".
* Die cut your sentiment piece from the scrap of Very Vanilla using a label from the Seasonal Labels Dies.  (See picture for which one I used.)
* Stamp the inside panel and sentiment piece using the berries and twig stamps from the Christmas Season stamp set and Real Red and Garden Green ink pads.  I stamped full strength inside and second generation on the sentiment piece.  (See pictures for placement.) 
* Stamp your sentiment on the sentiment piece using Early Espresso ink.

* Using your bone folder, break the fibers in the Real Red card stock piece.  G over it many times, in all directions, until the piece can be easily pull apart into two pieces.  (This will leave a suede like texture on the inside part. See video for more on how to do this.)
* Adhere the DSP to the Crumb Cake card stock. 
* Adhere the Real Red piece, suede-like side up, covering up the DSP line, nearly at the center of the entire piece.
* Adhere this whole piece to the card base.
* Adhere the sentiment piece to the center of the Real Red piece, using stampin dimensionals.
* Adhere the Gold Holly leaves (as seen in picture).
* Adhere the Red Rhinestones; one on each side of the sentiment and three in a row going down on the top right side of the Crumb Cake piece.
* Adhere the inside panel.

Your card is complete!

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Remember, you can still get all the wonderful things in the Mini Catalog as well as the Annual catalog!  If you place an order in my online store, please use this hostess code when asked. RZCARA9H  It helps me to bring you more card creations and to send goodies to you (as my customer)!  However, if your order is more than $150, retail, please do not use the code as you will earn your own host(ess) benefits!

Don't have a demonstrator and need catalogs? Contact me!

Feel free to check out the video linked above and comment below with a picture of your own creation!  As always, I would appreciate any business and would love to be your demonstrator!  Happy Stampin'!