2009 Christmas nephew

Drum roll please! this is the last card from 2009! So what do you think? I sent it to our nephew. I managed to continue to use up some of my designer paper stash too!

Ingredients
Card size - 8.5 in x 5.5 in
Cardstock/Paper - Neenah, Archiver's open stock, Provocraft Rob & Bob stack
Stamp - High Hopes
Ink - Memento
Color - Copics - 0, E00, E02, R20, R22, R27, R29, C1, C3, W1, Booo, American Craft white gel pen
Embellishments - Liquid Applique, Nestabilities

2009 Christmas neice

I made this Christmas card for my neice she isn't that young (16) but I thought she would like the funky whimsy of the combinations. I think this is my favorite because I really like these stamps despite all the issues people have had with High Hopes. Its part of my trying to use what I have already series!

Ingredients
Card size - 8.5 in x 5.5 in
Cardstock/Paper - Neenah, Archiver's open stock, Provocraft Rob & Bob stack
Stamp - High Hopes
Ink - Memento
Color - Copics - 0, E00, E02, R20, R22, R27, R29, C1, C3, C5, C7, W1, W3, G14, G17, B000, B00
Spica red and gold
Embellishments - Liquid Applique

Christmas 2009 - BIL & SIL

As these are now last year's Christmas cards I am trying to KISS (keep it simple stupid) them. If you want to know more let me know, but it's all pretty self explanatory.
This card was for my BIL and SIL. I think it may be my favorite of the two individual cards I sent. I used my large cuttlebug holly embossing folder and then just colored over the raised holly with my copics and red spica pen. I colored the ribbon to match with the same pens and the "drops" are clear floral pebbles from Michael's that I color the back to match.

Ingredients

Card size - 8.5 in x 5.5 in

Cardstock - Neenah, DCWV

Embossing folder - Provocraft

Color - Copics G17

Ink - Memento Lady Bug Red

White grosgrain

Christmas 2009 for the MIL

Should I start with what I would change about this card? LOL - well I would have had the tree stand on a colored background so the snow (chunky glitter) would pop.

This is pretty much all Martha Stewart punches glued on to look like a full spruce. I got my inspiration on Splitcoast Stampers - I don't know who was first but there were many cards. The ornaments are all jewelled brads and the sentiment is one of my favorites from Kitchen Sink Stamps embossed with white embossing powder.

So how would you have made this card better? I like the red,white and green traditional color scheme but did I take it too far.

Maybe I should have just put the tree directly on the red... hmmm....

Ingredients
Card size - 8.5 in x 5.5 in
Cardstock - Neenah, Archiver's open stock, Michael's Recollections
Punch - Martha Stewart
Stamps - Kitchen Sink Stamps
Ink - Versamark with Zig embossing powder

Christmas 2009

We are over a month into the new year and I haven't posted up 2009 Christmas cards - I decided to just give myself a break and get them done rather than trying to be the Superwoman of crafting. So here they are.

What do you think. I made an effort to use up some Rob&Bob paper stack - and to be honest I think I got 96 cards out of one sheet of each design!!! I really have to try harder to use it before I hate it. I did resist picking up another designer paper pad a couple of weeks ago when I popped into Michael's after getting my car serviced. I loved the paper but I just don't have the room at the moment. I also made use of a lot of left over gingerbread colored cardstock from Michael's that I had left over for cardstock I bought for last year's Christmas cards.

The gingerbread man is from High Hopes love the stamps but didn't like the wait and am disappointed that others are still having issues. They now sell through wholesellers so that is probably the best way - I don't know if I would have the guts to pre-order with them though.

I used this card as inspiration - Toni Storie . I hope everyone thinks I did it justice.

Of note, I will buy SCAL or similar for my cutter as cutting 100 Gingerbread men is a pain in the hand (now just what did you think I was going to say????)

So here's the details of a card that looks really simple but had a lot of steps to make it look just right -

Ingredients
Card size - 4.25 in x 5.5 in (yes that is a change for me!!!)
Cardstock/Paper - Neenah, Archiver's open stock, Provocraft Rob & Bob, Michael's
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Color - Copics - E11 or E21, R29, R22; Sakura or American Craft white gel pen. Black fine point Sharpie

Flying High Snoopy.

I make no apologies - I LOVE SNOOPY. I bought this stamp ages ago and kept forgetting to use it. I guess I deserve the cone of shame for that (yes, an "Up" reference - great movie if you haven't seen it). I took all the color cues from the stamp mount.

And do look close so you can avoid my mistake - my red hadn't bled into the circles until I thought I would put some grey shading in there after I had colored the red. Lesson learnt I won't put red down on my card until last again when using copics!

Don't know if you can actually tell but Snoopy is the lightest of greys with a liberal use of the blender pen.

To make Snoopy pop even more I matched the embossed greeting to the horizon of blue around the plane. I think it works, I hope you do too.

Ingredients
Card size - 8.5 in x 5.5 in
Cardstock - Neenah, The Paper Source, Michael's
Stamps - Stampabilities
Ink - Memento tuxedo black
Color - Copics - 0, W1, W3, W5, W7, E35, E37, R46, R59, B000
Cuttlebug birthday embossing folder

Autumnal Birthday greetings

This is one of the cards I made for my mother's birthday in November. I think it is kind of unisex and doesn't automatically scream that the recipient is male or female.

I was hoping that the ink would bead (and it did) for the tree trunk just to create some bark texture. I think just played with the leaf stamps from the set and kept over stamping in different autumnal Memento inks.

The one thing I would absolutely change on this card is that I would have had the exact match memento ink pen for the brown lines on the kraft card base.

The layers are done so that the brown echoes the size of the image and the green the dimensions of the card base.

Ingredients
Card size - 8.5in x 5.5in
Cardstock - Archivers Kraft, Bazzill, Neenah
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps
Ink - Versamark, Memento - Summer Sky, Canteloupe, Desert Sand, New Sprout, Bamboo Leaves, Rhubard Stalk, Rich Cocoa.