Here are my personal Christmas cards from the month of February. I'm really proud and really striving to keep up with this goal. Six cards in total. Gingerbread dies, and papers are from Scrapbook.com and the sentiment stamps are from my stash, a set from the stamps of life. I also used some hearts and a present to "look" like gingerbread cookies from my stash. There's a little bit of everything in these cards. All of these cards are A6 in size.
and I'm still straggling along with my thank you cards. If you saw my last post, you know what this is all about.
It has been my desire to create thank you cards for my Christmas gifts for the last few years, but I never seem to find time to make cards for my own giving in the season I'm in. This year I was determined. I'm still behind, but I think gratitude is good for anytime no matter if it is considered untimely. Right? Here is the start of some of my thank you cards. I used a set of stamps, dies and paper pads from Scrapbook.com.
I'm sharing a beautiful birthday card I made for a friend for her to gift to a friend. I know both these ladies well and I get special joy in creating for people I love. I used one of my favorite craft consortium paper pads and my spellbinders nested arches dies. I also used greenery dies from scrapbook.com as well as my FAVORTIE dollar tree butterfly stickers. I used an embossing folder from spellbinders for the background and made this into a shaker card which is also a favorite style for me. The birthday die cuts are from spellbinders and the sub sentiment is a paper rose premade sentiment I cut up to finish the sentiment. The flat back, faceted gems came from Hobby Lobby and finished out the card nicely.
So this is the card set I created to continue my goal of having handmade Christmas cards to send out this year. I used a background stamp from my stash, I'm not sure the brand, but it's red rubber and makes a great impression. The Joy die and snowman die were both freebies I received with and order from Scrapbook.com. I only got four finished, but since I made 9 in december, I'm ahead of schedule!
