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Some more Christmas cards to inspire you :0) All made with Holiday Mini stamps. Card 3 by Pat Moritz, and card 4 by Ilina Crouse.

 
 

Blog Candy - Northern Hearts wood stamp set

Want a chance to win this cute stamp set? Simply leave a comment on this blog post telling me about one of your favorite Christmas traditions. You have until the end of Sun., 12/5! Mon. morning I will announce the winner!

 

Happy Advent!

 

Holiday Brag Book Class

This mini scrapbook is our project for the class in West Philly. (12/2 eve & 12/4 morning). We’ll put two cd folders together to make an elegant brag book with the beautiful Deck the Halls paper and Bells & Boughs stamp set.  This will be perfect for highlighting some of your best holiday photos - from this year or years gone by! 
Early Bird Rate: $15 (send a check or PayPal payment by 11/30); After 11/30:$20
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Less than one month til Christmas?!

How did that happen? It actually bugs me when I hear those countdowns, so lets move on to the samples for today:0) The first two are my Aunt Karen's cards. She gave me a dozen gorgeous samples for being one of her downline's top sellers the last few months. I was so happy to open that package of priceless inspiration!

The 3rd one I made with the Welcome Christmas stamp set. I love the shimmer paint! It might be hard to see in the photo, but wow, what an easy and economical way to add glimmer to your project without embossing. It dries pretty fast too! I tapped it with the sponge dauber and eventually ended up swirling some of the ink in there too, for a blueish background.

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More Christmas swaps

Three more card samples for you, designed by some of my Philly Inkers, Tara Gupta, Lynn Fones, and Dawn Kifer. Tara and Dawn used the Northern Hearts Hostess set. Lynn made the center fabric embellishment her card, for all 17 of us for the shoebox swap! The fabric on Tara and Lynn's cards is featured in the mini catalog, what fun ways to use it!

 
 

More Easy Christmas Cards...

Card 1: Snow Buddies (hostess) stamp set. I am really loving the Bashful Blue and Elegant Eggplant together! Perfect for January when Christmas colors are over, but we're not quite ready for summer stamping:0) I would have never thought to add legs to the snowman, which works great for the ice skates - I think I may have seen Jill R. do that at the last card club where we used this stamp set:0)
Card 2: Patterned Pines and Four the Holidays stamps. The paisley images have some highlighting in them, thanks to a tip from Dawn Griffith's blog!
Card 3: Delightful Decorations in Certainly Celery and Real Red
Card 4: Seasons of Simple Grace stamp set, stamped in Chocolate Chip, (Kraft cardstock and white gel pen border - so simple!)
Card 5: designed by Dana Marston, from the last Philly Inkers shoebox swap

Happy Card Making!

There is still time to make some cards, even if it's just a few:0) No guilt trip there though!

These first 4 are from various Philly Inkers swaps last week. Wreath: Lynn; Dahser in Moonlight: Gina; Christmas lights: Lynn; Purple Medallion: Ann Marie. Then comes a card designed by Juliana for a make and take a while back. I love the effect of sponging on the ornaments. Then comes a card I cased from Heather - an easy way to make a tree card that really packs a punch!

THEN comes a card I actually BOUGHT! Can you believe it? First card I've bought in years, unless I count Ilina's grab bag sale last fall :0) See below for details...

 

 

 

 

And now for something completely different....this is a card designed by Catherine Boyd, the sister of Gloria who I saw on Wed. at a lovely luncheon for a stampers group in Mt. Airy. She prints the faces on the computer, and then embellishes them with feathers, rhinestones, etc. Isn't it so cool? Stampin' Up! used to carry a set that was this style, but it has been retired a while now.  

Other uses for Christmas stamps and Petals-a-Plenty embossing folder

The first two cards feature the Petals-a-Plenty embossing folder - I wanted to make them an alternate flower from the poinsettias, and it works! The vase card was made by Sue T. She stamped an ornament from the "Delightful Decorations" stamp set, cut off the bottom, and make the other images in the set become flowers for the "vase." What a versatile stamp set!

The last card I made with "Holiday Best," a hostess stamp set. I love how the embossing plate matches the image in that stamp.

Email me or leave a comment if you have any questions on how these are made!



  

More Holiday Mini Catalog Samples...

My "Philly Inkers" group did a swap last month, and these are some more of their creations! Hope they inspire you this weekend!  

Card 1: Renee Tucci; Card 2: Judith Bassem; Card 3: Juliana Bibas; Card 4: Jennifer Duhe; Card 5: Gina Thornton; Card 6: Ann Marie Urban; Card 7: Albert Gomez; Card 8: Melissa Chadwick Levay; Card 9: Tara Gupta-Goldenberg