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. 

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......

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. 

Merry & Bright Christmas Card

Stash stuffs used for this card for Christmas:

Hard to get a great photo when using mirrored card stocks but this is the card I made for Christmas using stash stuff. To begin with I used the Simon Says Stamp "Twinkly Lights" die set:

I die cut the strands out using a dark green card stock in the stash. Then I used the two bulb dies in the set and cut out mirrored card stocks in different colours for the bulbs:

Used liquid glue to add the bulbs to the strands:

Set those aside. For the card base I used the same dark green card stock that I used for the green strands and I cut and scored that at the top, landscape style. For the white card front I cut a piece of white card stock 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.   I used an older Taylored Expressions embossing folder:

and embossed this. With that embossed I looked through the rectangle dies in the stash and decided to use the Essential Rectangles die set from Essentials by Ellen (Ellen Hutson):

I used the same mirrored gold card stock for the frame that I used for the gold bulbs and cut out the largest die frame in this die set. Used liquid glue to put the frame on the embossed piece and set that aside to dry. Once that was dried I used scissors to cut around the frame for the card front. Put this embossed rectangle on the card base using liquid glue. Added a couple of the strands of lights over the embossed piece for the card front and let this dry. Once dried I used scissors to trim off any strand pieces hanging over the edges of the card front.

For the "merry & bright" I used the die set from Simon Says Stamp - "Merry & Bright" and this die set also has small star dies as well as a couple of snowflake dies:

I used the mirrored gold card stock and cut the words out. Also cut them out again using white card stock and layered these words together using liquid glue. For the shadow piece behind the "merry.." I wanted to be able to see the bulbs under it so I used a light weight piece of vellum and cut that out. Put the word dies onto the vellum shadow piece using liquid glue. Added glue behind the letters on the shadow vellum piece and put this onto the card front

Here is a different angle to show the shine on this card:

This next photo shows the embossing on the white card front under the words and strands of lights:

Happy to be able to use more of the stash products to make a fun card. With using the mirrored card stocks for the bulbs and the greeting coloured gems were not needed for the card front. A fun holiday card finished and ready for the holiday ahead...

Spellbinders Essential Arch Card #2

Went through the stash for this card..... a few years back I bought the Tim Holtz Harvey Colorize die set on clearance for $4.49.  When I went through the Christmas dies this year I knew I wanted to use this die set and make a card using Harvey. This die set has 19 pieces to it but it is very easy to assemble your guard/nutcracker/soldier or whatever you make with it. Here is a photo of the die set packaging:

Many of the die pieces will tell you a colour to use or a layering number:

Before I started to die cut this set out I printed out a piece chart showing colours to use and which dies are for what. I keep this in the sleeve with the magnet sheet with the dies and the packaging from the die set:

Once again this is a good die set for using card stock scraps. Once I decided what I wanted to make for my card I did all the die cutting of my soldier. Did all the die cutting then sponged pieces and then assembled him using liquid glue. Wanted to use the arch die set again and for this card I used card stock from the stash and I used a larger arch die from the die set and cut out my arched card stock base, cut and scored at the top, using kraft card stock from the stash:

For the card front I used two arch dies and I looked for a holiday print in the stash:

Bought this "Dear Santa" by memory-place collection as a partial pad from the Recycle Creative Reuse store in Greenville, SC one trip long ago. I really liked this printed card stock and wanted to use it on my card front for Harvey:

Although I liked this print I did not like the blue buttons on the print so when I cut out my arched die card stock front I paid attention where these blue buttons would be on my card front. I die cut out a piece of the printed card stock for the card front as well as a red printed card stock scrap as a frame around my card front piece:

Used liquid glue and put the red frame on the printed arch:

Again using liquid glue I put these onto the arched kraft card stock base. For my sentiment I used a hot foil plate by Pinkfresh "Perfect Sentiments Holiday" and hot foiled that onto white card stock using shiny gold foil. Using thin foam tape I put Harvey on the left card front, covering up the blue button, and put the hot foiled sentiment to the right of him. Here is the card:

Harvey has built in dimension from the layers of this uniform and many pieces emboss when die cut so it is very easy to put these pieces together:

I added red gems from the stash for some sparkle on the card front. With this card being the arch shape I also used an arch die and cut out a stamped image for the inside of the card:

Happy to be able to get Harvey on a holiday card at last. Really like the arch dies as a card base, both scored at the top, and the side as a change from the rectangle cards I usually make... Plus using all stash items is always a good thing....