I made 20 Christmas cards this week. I got the Winter Woodlands Cricut cartridge last week and scoured YouTube looking for ideas of how to use it for cards. I can’t remember where I found the idea for the red, white, and black card, but it is a lift (the ice skating one is an exact lift, then I made 2 other versions of it with the other silhouettes on the cart:
I made a bunch of other cuts too, but I haven’t figured out how to make them into cards yet (trying to not make all my cards lifts), so I’ll have to wait for inspiration to finish those off.
This week I also revisited the Two Peas (a site I don’t frequent, but I DO like their YouTube channel) “A Year in Cards” series and decided to try some of the cards for my Christmas cards this year. I find cards so difficult compared to scrapbooking layouts, so following along with the video series has been helpful. I tried all of the cards from their September 2010 video and a few from other videos. I made 4-5 versions of each card, all slightly different, but I only took pics of one of each design. I used the Basic Grey Jovial collection for all these cards:
This one was fun and super easy- just pop-dotted squares made with a punch, stamping and a line.
I really wanted to use white embossing powder, but I didn’t have any, so I went with gold here. The photo makes it look crooked, but (hopefully) it’s straight in real life. The stamp is from inkadinkadoo.
This one was a little fussy to make. I don;t have a scallop punch, so I used my nestabilities in my Cuttlebug. The deer was punched with a larger sized circle punch and the green cs was pop-dotted. The stamp is one of those snag-ems, and the embossing powder is Zing! metallic red. I’d never tried thise powder before, and I LOVE how it melts! So smooth… I’ll be switching over to Zing for all my future embossing powder purchases.
This was my favourite paper from the collection, so I made this card a simple one to show it off. The peace-love-joy is a stamp which I repeated along the green cs.
