Home for Christmas projects

September 15, 2015

It's only September, I know. Weather is cooling off and it's nowhere near time for the Holidays but you can start crafting. Never a bad time for that. I had so much FUN creating samples from the Home for Christmas collection. Seriously. Many Christmas ideas inspired by the nostalgic look of the Home for Christmas Collection. This look it's not typically my go to style, and at first I thought this might be hard to use, but the cards came together quickly! Tip - cut out and create a few primary embellishments from the designer paper and then go to town.

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Festival of Trees shaker cards using the Wondrous Wreath 'NOEL' framelit.

Festival of Trees shaker cards - Dec Card Club

December 14, 2014

December is always a busy month, and even more so around here with our house being on the market, lots of travel and some various freelance work landing all about the same time. I need to do a life update blog post soon - lots to update everyone on.

December card club happened a little early this month due to a busy month and all of the fun holiday happenings. Since Chris is out of town I needed to bring the boys with me again (same thing for November club). Instead of the kids being underfoot Geoff was able to watch the boys this time and the boys got the get in some cousin time. Win/win for me. Thanks Geoff!

We created a couple of shaker cards this month. This is the first of two shaker cards. This card features the Festival of Trees stamp set. There are two slightly different versions of this card. I'm not sure which I like best. On one shaker card I tried to heat emboss on the clear window sheet with silver embossing powder which was a little tricky so I decided to alter the card for club (static!). The altered version skips the heat embossing and uses Lost Lagoon as an accent color.

Festival of Trees shaker card with silver heat embossing.

Festival of Trees shaker card - card club version

Detail view of Festival of Trees card club shaker card.

Santa Stache Gift Card holder

November 24, 2014

Here is another project from November card club. Gift cards need a little dressing up. We used the gift card envelope die and the heavy weight Under the Tree designer paper to make this cute gift card holder. The Santa from the Santa Stache set fits perfectly on the front of the envelope. I created the red banner that sits underneath the Santa with the Note Tag punch.

Bright & Beautiful - Season's Greetings Card

October 20, 2014

Here is the last October card club project. This card features more stars. I can't get enough, and looking back I used stars on all of the card club projects this month.

Notice how perfectly the little star punch nestles into the center of the little star stamp from the Bright & Beautiful set? Love it.

Bright & Beautiful Card, Stars, Stampin' Up!