Christmas Bells Card

For this card I again used the HeroArts Jingle Bells hot foil plates set:

I wanted to use gold foil for the bells to match the gold foil on one of the holiday sentiments I had hot foiled using the Spellbinders Winter Peace hot foil plates and dies set:

Here is the card:

For this card I did not want to use a Christmasy or snowflake background so I looked through all my background hot foil plates in the stash and I came across the Birch Press Designs "Gilded Viola" hot foil plate:

I hot foiled this onto white card stock using shiny gold hot foil from the stash. Although it is a floral design I liked the thin lines of the design and I think it works well with the bells on the card front. For my card stock base I used a darker, rich red card stock and cut and scored that at the top. Trimmed my hot foil piece for the card front to the size I needed and I used liquid glue to put the hot foiled piece on the front of the red card stock base. 

Hot foiled the bells hot foil plate onto white card stock and cut that out using rectangle dies. Cut a piece of gold mirrored card stock to fit behind the bells piece. Put these two together using liquid glue. Added a gold gem to the center of the bow on the bells. Used the "Merry Christmas" sentiment on the bells piece and put pop dots behind the bells piece for dimension. 

Double Vision Thanksgiving Card

Wanted to use the double vision technique and make a Thanksgiving card with that. Found this sheet of printed card stock at Hobby Lobby on my last shopping stop at their store:

Although I liked the colours and items on the print I did not want to have the turkey or pheasant on the card front as I was not sure how that would do with the double vision technique. So I cut around those for my card front. Here is the card I made:

The card stock base is Avocado Green from PaperTreyInk. For the full front card piece I used a beige burlap print from the stock. Cut that to fit the card front and put that on the card base using liquid glue. For the print for the front of the card - first I cut a piece of white card stock to the size I wanted for the card front. I measured the height and the width of this and then cut my printed card stock to that size. The key to double vision is to cut your card stock to the size you want before you assemble your card front so you do not have to go back and try to trim pieces to fit. 

I cut all my printed strips to 1/2" wide. As I cut these I numbered the back of each one with a pencil at the bottom so I could easily reassemble them for my card front:

I ended up cutting my printed card stock into 10  1/2" strips for the card front. After numbering all the strips I turned them over and put them in numerical order so the pattern made sense. First strip I used liquid glue and put it on the white card stock piece I had cut for the card front. Second strip has foam tape behind it. Third strip is liquid glue again and you keep doing this - glued strip, foam taped strip, etc until your card front is done. With that finished I use liquid glue on the white card stock and put it on the card front. Added gold gems from the stash to the front of the card. 

Silver Bells Christmas Card

Bought the Jingle Bells Hero Arts hot foil plate on clearance and I made a card with it. Here is the hot foil plate set:

Recently I hot foiled some items and one of the plate sets I hot foiled had two holiday sentiment plates with matching dies. I used scraps of white card stock and foiled extra sentiments for other holiday projects I was working on:

Here is the card I made using one of the extra foiled sentiments:

The base of this card is a rich forest green card stock from the stash and I cut and scored that at the top. Wanted to have a full front hot foiled piece for the card front so I looked through my stash hot foil plates and decided to use the Spellbinders Snowfall Shimmer hot foil plate:

I used shiny silver foil from the stash and foiled that onto white card stock. Cut this to the size I needed for the card front and I used liquid glue to put this onto the green card stock base. 

For the bells piece I hot foiled that onto white card stock and I used the Spellbinders rectangles die set and cut that out. Then I cut a piece of silver mirrored card stock larger than the bells piece and I layered those using liquid glue. Added a silver gem from the stash to the center of the bow holding the bells. 

The sentiment "May the Peace of the season be yours" I used to go with the snowfall piece behind it. Layered the bells piece on the card front using pop dots for dimension.

Winter Peace Christmas Card

Used the new Spellbinders "Winter Peace" Press & Foil Plate Die set for this card. First I used oxide inks and covered 3/4 of a piece of white card stock cut larger than I would need. Right after I added the oxide inks the card stocks look splotchy but oxide inks will blend and smooth out as they dry:

For my card I used Spellbinders white foil from the stash and hot foiled the Winter Peace plate onto the inked pieces. With the oxide inks on the background the white foil does not look shiny on the card. Here is a photo of my finished card:

For my card base I used a light blue piece of card stock and cut and scored that at the top. I used the Essential Rectangles die set from Spellbinders and cut a piece of white card stock slightly smaller than my light blue card base. Put the white piece onto the card base using liquid glue. For the hot foil piece I used another rectangle frame and cut that out. I wanted to add a very slight amount of darker blue around my foiled piece so I used a dauber to add the darker blue ink. I only used the dark blue on the edges of the hot foiled piece to where my oxide inks stopped. Glued this background piece to the card front base.

This hot foil set has two sentiment plates. One is "Merry Christmas to you and yours" and the other one is "May the Peace of the season be yours".  Both are holiday sentiments that can easily be used on many cards and projects for the holiday season. So while I was hot foiling I decided to use scraps and hot foil these sentiments on white card stocks using various foils from the stash:

For my card I hot foiled my sentiment using a teal blue foil from the stash and cut that out using the matching die set included in this foil plate set. I also cut out an additional piece of white card stock and I glued the sentiment on that to make the sentiment sturdy for my card front. This foiled sentiment adds some shine to the card front:

Once again I used the Spellbinders/Frank Garcia "Sweet Snowman" die set for my snowman and once again she is a girl....

I die cut out my snowman and all pieces using scraps. I sponged all the pieces and then assembled my snowman. I put pop dots behind her to give her some dimension on the card front:

Here is a photo to try to show the matte finish the white foil makes over the background:

The only gem I added to the card was to the bow on her hat as I want the ink/foiled background to show all the snowflake patterns and not be too busy with added items. This press & hot foil plate foiled well the first try with no over foiling and all the lines on the snowflakes show up well.  Really like this snowman die set by Frank Garcia......

Hoot Halloween Card

Went to the stamp show earlier this year in Fredericksburg, VA and I picked up this Halloween die set from Brass & Bliss. It is a three piece die set and very easy to assemble. I combined it with another die set from the stash and a free sample pack of holiday card stocks from CraftyStampCo.com:

Used inspiration from the packaging for this die set for my card:

For my card stock base I used black card stock and cut and scored that at the top. Used purple card stock as the mat on the card front to match the purple tree I die cut. Wanted to use the Spellbinders Color Block Accent Rectangles die sets in the stash to add black and white to my card front:

In my last order from the CraftyStampCo.com she enclosed a small pack of sample holiday prints for free. I picked out one of the prints and cut it to size to fit in the rectangle for the card front. I die cut the forest tree using purple card stock. I wanted my tree to have a shadow look but did not want to bring in anymore colour for my card so I die cut a black forest tree and put the purple tree onto the black tree and used liquid glue for that. I offset the purple tree so you can see the black tree behind it as a shadow:

Used liquid glue and put the purple mat piece onto the card front. Put the rectangle frames together also with liquid glue and put that onto the purple mat. Trimmed the "boo" print to the size I wanted and put that on the rectangle.  Used liquid glue and out the trees piece onto the printed card front. For the owl I used black for his body and a dark gray for his wings and a golden yellow for eyes, beak, and feet. He is assembled using liquid glue as well. I put him on his branch with glue and he was all set. Wanted to add a little sparkle but not too much so used three small purple gems from the stash. Fun card to assemble and happy to use more of the stash items as well as the free card stock prints from the CraftyStampCo. She has really nice card stock and I was happy to get these free prints!

When you just can not leave well enough alone...... looked at this card and decided it needed a pumpkin on the card front.... looked through the stash of pumpkin dies and all too big.... where there is a will there is a way..... pulled out a small circle punch and made my own pumpkin - 

Punched out three small circles from scrap card stock and sponged the edges of those. Cut a scrap of dark green card stock for my stem and assembled the pumpkin with stem using liquid glue.... added this to the card front using tear n tape...... Now the card is done.... again....

Witch Shoe Bag Toppers

Scrapdivadesigns.com has a Halloween bag topper die set that has both a small die set and a large die set in the same package and I bought it when it came out. This die set has 12 pieces and here are photos of the dies:

I used all scraps to assemble my bag toppers. The top of the bag topper (the base) you cut twice so you can use smaller pieces of card stocks to die cut those. Here is the small bag topper I made:

I die cut the two bag base dies from black card stock. Folded it on the scored lines and used liquid glue to assemble those. Set those aside. Die cut her shoes from glittered orange card stock and her stockings are die cut using a holiday 6x6 print of card stock. Wanted to dress her up so I used a bow punch from Hobby Lobby (long ago) and punched out black glittered bows for her shoes. Added an orange gem from the stash to center of the bows. Added two larger orange gems to the top of the bag topper. Here is a photo of two of the larger Witch Shoe Bag Toppers I made:

Here is a photo to show the two sizes this die set makes next to each other:

For the purple bag topper:

Used purple card stock for the bag topper base. For her shoes I used holographic silver card stock and cut those out. Her shoe buckles are solid black card stock scraps. Stockings are 6x6 paper scraps. Used an old Michaels dollar bug punch and punched out two black glittered card stock bugs. Added larger purple gems to her shoe buckles from the stash. The sentiment "Happy Halloween" is from the Spellbinders/BetterPress Halloween Icons plates and dies set which I hot foiled. Assembled this bag topper using liquid glue. This next large bag topper:

Used lime green card stock for the topper base. Shoes are a matte black card stock. Buckles are from holographic card stock. Added small green gems to the center of the buckles. Stripe stockings are card stock holiday scraps. For the sentiment again I hot foiled the Halloween Icons from Spellbinders for that. The spider web is cut out from a piece of spider web tulle from the Dollar Tree. Again using the bug punch I added two glittered black card stock bugs to the topper. Fun die sets to work with using more scraps and fun to dress her up using bow punches and adding gems to her buckles.... No reason for her holiday should she not be stylin'!

Reindeer Bow Embellishment

October release from Scrapdivadesigns.com has both fall and Christmas die sets included. I ordered her small reindeer bow die set to make Christmas embellishments. This die set is available in a small, medium, and large size but I just ordered the smaller one. Here is a photo of the two sheets of dies in this set:

I wanted to make my reindeer bow to sit on a rosette for the base of my embellishment. I went through my stash of rosette dies and I used the Sizzix/Tim Holtz rosette dies #662691:

I used green polka dot card stock from the stash and cut out two of the scalloped rosette pieces. I put them together using tear n tape and then used hot glue to form the rosette shape. Long ago I made a tool so that when I make rosettes using hot glue I do not have to touch the hot glue using my hands. This tool makes it easy to press the rosette flat into the hot glue:

Once the glue is set I can easily lift off this handle and it is non stick because I cut a circle of the brown craft mat for the bottom of this tool and the hot glue does not stick to it:

I used E6000 to put this craft mat circle onto this tool handle and it has not come off - I made this a few years back and it gets a lot of use when I make rosette embellishments. 

Here is my Reindeer Bow Embellishment I made:

This Reindeer Bow die set was designed by Jenn Cascell (she has a channel on YouTube) for Scrapdiva Designs. For my bow I cut a solid piece of white card stock as a base for the reindeer and layering parts. I then cut out a reindeer base using kraft card stock. I used liquid glue and put this onto the white card stock base. I cut two pink ear pieces using scrap pink card stock. Sponged the edges of those and glued them to the ears. For the antlers I wanted those a little darker than the ears so I used recycled thin cardboard to cut out the antlers. Used liquid glue to put the antlers on the kraft reindeer base piece. For the tails of the bow - this die set does not come with layering pieces for those so I partially cut out the base piece using printed card stock from the stash for my bow tails:

I made the layered bow using this red print and added a red and white striped card stock for the bow layers. I put the bow together using liquid glue and let that dry. I had seen the reindeer bows that Christine (shabbypinkhouse on YouTube) showed on her channel and she had added fine gold thread and red glittered circles to the antlers of her reindeer to mimic a strand of lights. That brings in gold so I decided on my rosette to use gold glittered tulle from my stash and cut two circles of this to put on top of my rosette:

In with my rosette die sets I have heavy weight white card stock circles I punched out that fit the sizes of rosettes I make. My rosette is 2 1/4" so I used that size circle and laid it on the tulle and then used scissors to cut around my white circle to make my circle tulle layers for the top of the rosette. I used a small amount of hot glue to the center front of the rosette and put the tulle on my rosette and used my tool to press this tulle into the hot glue. With the tulle on the rosette I used hot glue to add the bow to the front of the reindeer piece and then used hot glue to put the reindeer onto the rosette and let that set up. 

I cut a piece of the glittered gold thread a bit bigger than I would need to wrap around the antlers. I used a small circle punch and punched out red glittered card stock circles to put on my gold thread. I used liquid glue to add the red circle over the thread to hold the thread in place. Once that was done I trimmed the thread to the length I wanted and I added a couple more red glittered circles to the antlers. Fun embellishment to put together and a good use for scraps of printed holiday papers.  This small reindeer bow measures approx 3" wide by 3 5/8" high so it is a good size. I think the largest die set is over 4x4 1/2 so this can be used on a bag topper, etc. 

Thanks to Jenn Cascell for designing this reindeer bow die set and to Christine (shabbypinkhouse) for sharing her idea to add a strand of Christmas lights to the antlers of her reindeer.  

Sweet Snowman Card

Bought the Frank Garcia/Spellbinders "Sweet Snowman" die set when it first came out and I finally was able to make the card with this die set. Here is the die set:

For my card I wanted to use blues and aquas for my snowman and I also wanted to use a hot foiled background plate from the stash. Here is my card:

The card base is aqua and I cut and scored that at the top. For the front of the card I hot foiled the LawnFawn snowflake cover plate (#LF2977) and I used shiny silver foil for that in the Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil machine:

I cut the white card stock larger than what I would need for the card front and foiled that:

Using the trimmer I cut this to the size I would need for my card front. I put it on the card base using liquid glue. Set this aside. Die cut the snowman, sponged the edges of all the pieces, assembled that and set that aside. Wanted a frame for the card front so used two different rectangle dies from the Spellbinders Essential Rectangle Frame dies and cut a frame out of the same card stock I used for the card base. Cut a piece of vellum to fit behind that frame and put the frame on the vellum using liquid glue. Set it aside to dry. 

Wanted two white glittered card stock snowflakes to go above and next to the snowman so I looked through the stash and found this set of snowflake dies by Picket Fence "Winter Snowflakes":

I picked out two of the snowflake dies and cut out the snowflakes. I used liquid glue to put those on the vellum frame piece. Wanted the snowman to have dimension so I used pop dots behind it. Used liquid glue and put the frame piece on the hot foiled snowflake cover piece on the card. Put the snowman on the frame over the two snowflakes. For the sentiment I used this hot foil holiday sentiment die set from Spellbinders and I hot foiled it onto black card stock using shiny silver foil:

This sentiment set also has the matching dies to cut out the sentiments so I die cut the sentiments out and decided on the 'Tis The Season  sentiment for my card front. I used black card stock for the sentiment to help tie in the snowman hat I cut out of black card stock. Used pop dots behind that on the bottom of the frame piece. This photo shows the dimension of this on the card front:

I added silver gems from the stash to a few of the snowflake centers and for the bow on the snowman hat I used a blue gem in the center of that. Def would say my snowman is a girl and well dressed for the season....

Pop dots lift her off the snowflakes on the frame and helps with the depth on the front of the card:

Fun snowman to put together and I was able to use more solid card stock scraps for her so that was a good thing.... This Frank Garcia/Spellbinders release has so much more than the Sweet Snowman die set but I wanted to use sentiments from my stash and other stashed items. Fun card to put together for the holidays ahead. 

Trick or Treat Halloween Card

Used all items from my stash for this holiday card and the background is a new to me background stamp I bought last month at a used stamp sale for $5.00. Here is the card:

The card base is black and it is scored at the top. For the background I used this background stamp:

This background is called "Drybrush" and it reminded me of a splotchy/spooky sky so I wanted to use it for a Halloween card. I cut my white card front larger than what I would need for the card front and I stamped this stamp on it using light gray ink. To cut it to size I used the Spellbinders Essential Rectangles die set and cut that out. Lightly sponged the edges of it using a dauber and black ink. 

For the tree arch piece I used the Simon Says Stamp "Twisted Tree Arch" I had bought when it first came out and I cut that out of black card stock. I put this on the stamped white card front using liquid glue. Again using the liquid glue I put the card front onto the black card stock base and set that aside to dry. Here is a photo of the tree die set:

For the ghost on the card front I used an old Cuttlebug ghost die and cut that out of white card stock that is covered with a holographic sticker sheet and the ghost is now holographic:

The two jack o' lantern pumpkins were punched out using two paper punches:

Put the ghost and the two pumpkins on the card front using tear n tape. The greeting "Trick or Treat" was die cut out of orange glittered card stock. I put the greeting on the card front using liquid glue. I used an unknown bats die set from the stash and I cut out the bats using black mirrored card stock. Here is a photo of the bats die set:

As well as the sentiment die set from Brass & Bliss for the "Trick or Treat" die set:

 I put the bats on the card front using liquid glue and added a few orange gems from the stash to the card front for some sparkle and shine.