Addicted to CAS 298 - Christmas

Today starts the last challenge of the year for Addicted to CAS. I am the hostess and I chose the code word..Christmas since I still have lots of Christmas cards to be made. 

For this card, I started with a white top folding A2 card base and a white panel which  cut down with a postage die.  The snowmen are also part of a postage die/stencil set from Waffle Flower Crafts, i just cut the images apart after I got it all stencil in. The small holiday greeting is by Simon Says Stamp. 

Sending Some Holiday Sunshine

Todays card is for the Sending Sunshine Instagram hop. This is a hop that some of us crafters participate in as a spinoff from the Suicide Awareness hop. We send some sunshine aka handmade cards monthly instead of just once a year. 

This month I am sending a little holiday sunshine. There are many of us, myself included that the holidays isn't necessarily a happy time for whatever reason. We lost my father in law back at the end of September and this was the last parent and its hard. The holidays always bring back memories of those we lost. If you need to talk to someone I hope you will reach out. 

To make this card, I started with a white top folding A2 card base and a midnight panel. I ran the panel through the die cutting machine using a 3D embossing folder from Simon Says stamp. The ribbon die is by Kristina Werner for C9 and the sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp. 

Pull & Reveal Gift Card Holder

When I received this die, I knew that I would be making lots of gift card holders.  It's so fun and easy to make. For the first one I made I watched the video but for this one I didn't have to watch it again, it's that easy.

Also the image on the front is actually the paper from the Delivering Christmas Collection. You can use the dies that coordinate with the stamp set to actually cut the images out of the coordinating papers.  I did add some accents to the paper with OLO markers. 

ProCRAFTinators Club December Edition

My card today is for the December ProCRAFTinators club insta hop. This hop is where a group of crafters dust off kits that we haven't used from classes or events. This one uses Gina K Designs products from the fall Crop & Create, I had every intention of actually doing this event but we lost our dad unexpectedly.

Anything Goes

Today starts a new challenge at AAA Cards. Game 305 is Anything Goes as long as its kept clean and simple.  The option is white on white or all white. I chose the white on white option. I hope you will play along.

To  make my card, I started  with a white top folding A2 card base and a white panel in which I used to cut out the tree. 

For the garland, Merry and the star, I used white glitter cardstock.

All the products are by Waffle Flower Crafts.

Pull and Reveal Gift card die

Today I am participating in an Insta hop over on Instagram.  The Dare 2B Artzy team is sharing this new product, th Pull & Reveal Gift Card Holder Die just in time for the Christmas season. 

This die is super easy and so fun to use.  Unfortunately I do not have a gift card to put inside as of now so to show where it would go I just wrote on the tag.

The set I used is Special Delivery and I colored it using OLO markers. You can count on seeing more of these befoe the season ends. 

Stay Crafty With Hero Arts - December Edition

Today starts our December challenge for A Blog Named Hero.  Our theme is Gold, so all you have to do to be eligible to win a $50 gift card to the Hero Arts shop is create a project using Gold and at least one product by Hero Arts. Upload you project to the Hero Arts blog by the end of the month.  

To make this card, I started with a white top folding  A2 card base and a white panel cut to the same size. I used the Varying Butterfly Wings Fancy Die. I cut one out of white and ink blended color over it and then cut one out of gold foil.  For the background , I created a stencil by using two sizes of the Arches Infinity Dies and then ink blended in the space. I added a butterfly body from the Special Day Butterfly set, colored it and then added the wings. 

To finish the card, I added a sentiment from that same stamp set. 

Holiday Greetings

Today starts a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps & More. This will be you last challenge of the year, so you will have plenty of time to play along.

To make this card, I started with a white top folding card base, a kraft panel and a white panel. I randomly stamped the holly around the outer edge of the white panel and then added the greeting. 

All products are from Gina K Designs.

Addicted to CAS - Metallic

Today starts a new challenge at Addicted to CAS. Nancy is our host and she chose the code word ...

To make this card, I started with a white top folding A2 card base and a white panel. I cut the panel down a quarter of an inch and ran it through the die cutting machine  with a snowflake cover plate.  I used a couple metallic snowflakes  by Kristina Werner and the image from a stencil/die set from Pinkfresh Studio. 

Reindeer Interlock Card

Today's card is the first interlocking card that I have made. I used one of Cindy's tutorials over at Dare 2B Artzy. 

To make this card, I started with a white A2 card base cut 8 1/2 X 5 1/2. I cut two pieces  2 X 5 3/8 and one 4 1/8 x 5 3/8. I scored the base at 2 1//8 from both sides and attached the red patterned paper strips to those side panels. I added the lights patterned paper on the inside. I cut an oval frame by using two of the nesting oval dies and then cut a circle to attach the reindeer.

I put it al together by adding glue only to one side of the oval and the circle.