I have a few cards to share with you today! Marianne and I went to a Shoebox Card Swap last week at Allison Barber's home. We had a great time visiting with the gals and making the cards. Everyone did 3 shoe box swaps so we got a lot of new ideas.
My swaps hit all the upcoming holidays - Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas! I have already shared my Halloween card so here are my other two:
This card is very simple to make but it packs a "wow." For the Christmas card, I used the stamp set, Joyful Christmas from the mini catalog. I embossed the poinsetta on the Vanilla card stock with Cherry Cobbler embossing powder. I stamped a second poinsetta and cut out the middle part of the flower and attached it to the embossed flower with a dimensional. The sentiment is from the same stamp set. But my favorite part is the Frosted Finishes Embellishments in the center of the flower (pg. 28 from Holiday Catalog). They are gorgeous rhinestone embellishments!!
My Thanksgiving card has lots of textures to it. I embossed the Crushed Curry card stock with Stripes Embossing Folder in both directions to create the plaid embossed effect. The DSP on the bottom is from Sweater Weather with a small strip of Cajun Craze to separate the two pieces. They are layered on a Chocolate Chip card. I stamped a Vanilla rectangle with the background from Truly Grateful (after stamping off once.) Then I stamped the wheat in Chocolate Chip and used different markers - Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Choc. Chip to color in the wheat. I matted this piece onto Chocolate Chip and Cajun Craze. I stamped the "Happy Thanksgiving" (Tags 4 You) in Choc. Chip ink onto Crushed Curry card stock and cut it out. (There is a punch for this set but I haven't purchased it yet.) The final touch was to add a little of Gold Glitter to the wheat using my Two-Way Glue Pen.
Allison asked her neighbor to come over and judge our cards and pick a winner. Well, guess what??? My Thanksgiving card was her choice! I was totally surprised! Allison gave me a super prize that I want to CASE.
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| Isn't this a great decorated note pad and pen? I don't want to use it and have to mess up that stamped front page! |
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| This is a coaster. She covered a tile with Eastern Elegance DSP. It is really cool! |
