Triangle Santa Cards

For these two cards I used the Triangle Santa die set from SimonSaysStamp. I also used their Triangle Tab die for the base to my Santa. If you are making tags or an ornament using these dies sets then you need to buy the Triangle Tab but for what I made with my Santa the tab would not be necessary as you can use a piece of scrap white card stock for your base and just cut it out using scissors. Santa is a three piece die set and easy to assemble - and another great use for scraps..... 

For the background to my cards I used a red card stock base cut and scored at the top. For my two card fronts I used white card stock. For both card fronts I used the Frosted Lace Cover cover plate from The Stamp Market. This first card I ran my white card stock and cover plate through the machine and then back again - this made all the snowflake pieces fall out of the die cut piece:

I put the die cut piece on a piece of white card stock using liquid glue. For the rectangle around Santa I used a rectangle frame piece for the stripes card stock and cut out a rectangle piece of white card stock to put that on using liquid glue. Then I cut a piece of white craft foam and put the rectangle piece on that for dimension for the card front. 

Cut out all the Santa pieces and sponged the edges of those and assembled him using liquid glue. Die cut his hat brim out of glittered white card stock. Put that hat brim piece on Santa using tear n tape. Hot glued a white pom pom to his hat. Used the small holly/berries die set from the Waffle Flower Snow Fun die set for the holly on his hat.  Went through the hot foiled sentiments I made last year and pulled out a "Merry Christmas" hot foiled sentiment in silver for the card front. Used pop dots behind that for dimension.

For this next card I again used the Frosted Lace Cover plate from The Stamp Market and again I used white card stock but this time I ran it through the machine just once so it would cut the design in the card stock but not cut out all the little pieces - here is that card:

Again I did everything on this card as I did on the first card and this card I used a "Merry & Bright" sentiment hot foiled with silver on a red card stock base. Here is a photo to show the difference of the two backgrounds next to each other:

Nice to be able to get different looks from using the same cover plate die..... and a better photo of Santa himself:

Snow Fun Card

Used the Waffle Flower Snow Fun die set for the snowman on this card:

Card base is light blue card stock. For the snowflake cover plate die for my background I used light blue card stock and cut out the Waffle Flower Snowflake Background (cover plate) die. I layered this onto a piece of white card stock and used liquid glue for those. 

Cut the snowman out of white card stock and used scrap orange, black, and brown card stock scraps for the rest. His hat is cut out of black mirror card stock. For the three snowflakes I used glittered card stock and three snowflake punches I have in my stash. I used an oval frame die set from the stash for the white oval frame piece. Used foam strips behind that for dimension. 

For the silver black greeting I had foiled Christmas greetings last year and I keep them in boxes by the colour so I went through the sentiments and decided on a black foiled piece to go with the black on the snowman's hat. Here are the boxes of sentiments: 

I sort them by the colour of foil I used. Here is a better photo of this sentiment on the card front:

The snowflake cover plate cut the blue card on the first pass through the die cutting machine with no problem and all the snowflake pieces came out with out problems. Always nice to use products that work well!