Northern Flurry Embossing Folder

Just a quick post of a quick and easy card we made at my Christmas card SAS. The Northern Flurry embossing folder makes this card super quick! I just added a little ribbon and some pearls, stamped Merry Christmas and tah dah! The card base, ink and ribbon are retired Brocade Blue. I did not put a bow on this one so it would be easy to mail!

Simple Grace Christmas Card

This is one of my favorite Christmas stamp sets. It is one of the few retired Christmas sets that I have kept. The paper is a retired Stampin' Up! paper called Christmas Cocoa. I used Soft Suede to stamp the image and the sentiment which is from the Stampin' Up! set called Rejoicing In Christmas. The ribbon is Soft Suede grosgrain.

Tags Till Christmas Card

Here is another card from my Christmas card Stamp-A-Stack. The card base is the now retired color Mellow Moss. I used the lovely Vintage Wallpaper to emboss the Very Vanilla panel. The stamped ornament is from the Stampin' Up! set called Tags Till Christmas; the sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes. I used some of my stash of retired Purely Pomegranate satin ribbon.
Now that I see this card on the "big screen" I wish I had sponged around the larger panel. For SAS cards I try to keep them quick because we make 30 cards in one night. I love sponging everything but it is time consuming.
Well off to clean; my stamp club is tonight and my stamping basement needs attention!

Another Silver Dasher

This is one of the cards we made at the Christmas Card Stamp-A-Stack. See what you missed!!! And just think-you would have your Christmas cards done and it is not even Thanksgiving!

I embossed Dasher and the sentiment with silver embossing powder. When I first started making cards I was in love with embossing. Watching the embossing powder melt as I heated it was almost like magic! Yeah well, like Trisha I am "easily amused". The card base is retired Taken With Teal textured card stock. I punched the snowflake and the scallop oval out of Brushed Silver card stock.

Inlaid Embossing Meets Northern Frost

Don't you just love the background panel? This technique is called Inlaid Embossing. You can use any die cuts or punched pieces to make this. I used the Northern Frost Sizzlet die to cut the snowflakes and glued them on a piece of Whisper White using Tombow™ Liquid Glue. I then ran it through the Big Shot™ with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder. The ribbon is Cherry Cobbler seam binding from the Holiday Mini. This is beautiful ribbon, very soft and supple! The card base is Night of Navy and the snowflakes were cut out of the now retired Brocade Blue.

Stampin' Up! Gold Waffle Paper

I finally broke out my waffle paper and actually used it! It is thicker than I thought it would be and easy to work with. In order to ruffle it around the stamped image I cut it in vertical strips and used a couple of small pieces rather than trying to work with one long piece. When it is finished you cannot see the seams.
The stamped image is from the set called Tags Till Christmas found in the Holiday Mini. The glitter is the new yummy, sparkly Champagne Glass Glitter. I love this glitter (okay I love any glitter)! I used Tombow™ Liquid Glue to adhere the glitter. One really nice thing about this glitter is it will age over time giving your project a vintage look. The little branches are a Martha Stewart™ Punch. The Cherry Cobbler panel was embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder and spritzed with Shimmer Paint mist.

Merry Christmas!

I love the look of this card and it was so easy to assemble. To make the front all you do is fold the front of the card in half. Just don't forget to only put adhesive on half of the front panel (From the AMHIK dept.). I used my Finial Press impressions folder for the inside panel and a piece of that lovely embossed paper from the Christmas Cocoa DSP (last chance to order is Jan. 4!). The ornament is from the stamp set Tree Trimmings (great little stamp set!).
I have most of my Christmas decorations in place with the exception of my tree and outside lights. I have a small upstairs and a big tree so everything gets moved around and the tree goes in the middle of the dining room; needless to say it takes a lot of furniture moving.
My santa collection has a new home on a bookshelf in the basement because when we bought our new TV we had to get a new stand instead of our entertainment center. Oh well I do love my new TV and it is MY santa collection and I do spend most of my time in the basement.

So how's your decorating coming? Christmas cards in the mail????? Christmas is coming!!!!!!

Snowflake Shimmer

My new favorite thing is . . . . shimmer paint! Look what a little Champagne Frost shimmer paint can do for plain, old chipboard! The shimmer paints are in the Holiday Mini Catalog and come in three flavors: Champagne Frost, Frost White, Platinum. The Champagne Frost and Frost White are translucent and the Platinum is opaque. The Champagne & White can be used as a wash over your projects whereas the Platinum will cover completely. The snowflake on this card is chipboard that I painted with the Champagne Frost using a cheap dollar store paint brush. It dries very quickly and a little paint goes a long way. The embossed piece was embossed using the Finial Press Embossing folder and then I added a little Champagne Frost shimmer paint using a sponge dauber. The card base is Sahara Sand. I can't emphasize enough how easy and how fast the shimmer paint goes on chipboard. You can also mix it with reinkers and either paint with it or daub it on a stamp and stamp. Another cool technique is to ink your stamp with classic ink and then daub on some shimmer paint and then stamp. For those of you who don't like to get glitter everywhere this is an easy way to get a little shimmer!!