Purple Ornaments

Several years ago, one of the buildings at the Financial District in San Francisco had a Christmas tree decorated with all purple trimmings.  I thought it was gorgeous and everyday I passed by it I smiled and thought to myself that next year I'll have a purple Christmas tree.  Every Christmas since then I've tried but I never end up with a completely purple tree because each year I would still hang my favorite ornaments and they're not purple.

Yesterday, I thought of that purple tree again and that train of thought led to this purple card.  I've done quite a few whimsical cards already so I'm going for elegant this time.  What do you think?  Elegant enough?

Lots of dry embossing here.  The background used Woodgrain embossing folder, not traditional, but I like the effect here.  The ornaments were die cut first then positioned in the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder individually.  I piled on the pearls for contrast and "hanged" them with silver strings.

The photo above was taken with natural light and shows the true color.  I turned on the overhead light for the picture below and got this gorgeous shade.... love it!

If you'd like to see other cards using these Ornament dies and the coordinating stamp set, I have them posted HERE.

Thanks for checking in today.  If you have any questions or comments, please don't be shy and say something.  You can even point out my grammatical errors, after all English is my second language and when I'm in a hurry, it shows.

Until the next post ...........  Cheers!!!

Christmas/Holiday Cards - Recap I

This is a recap of Christmas/Holiday cards so far this year.  For those of you who wants handmade cards to mail in time for the holidays, place your order soon.

-1-  posted HERE

-2- 

-3-   posted HERE

-4-   posted HERE

-5-   posted HERE.  Available as a pop-up gift card holder.

-6-    posted HERE

-7-   posted HERE.  Similar patterned paper maybe used for multiple orders.

 Inside pocket can hold cash or gift card

-8-    posted HERE.  Available poinsettia colors are red, burgundy, pink and coral.

 Inside pocket can hold cash or gift card

-9-   posted HERE

 Inside pop-up holds gift card.  Similar patterned paper maybe used for multiple orders.

-10-   posted HERE

-11-   posted HERE.  Available as a pop-up gift card holder.

-12-   posted HERE, see below for inside view.  Similar patterned paper maybe used for multiple orders.

-13-  

 inside pocket holds cash or gift cards.  

Similar but not identical snowflakes embellishment maybe used for multiple orders.

-14-   posted HERE.  Available as a pop-up gift card holder.

-15-   posted HERE.  Available in shades of green, yellow and blue.  Also available as a pop up gift card holder.

 posted HERE

For additional information, email or call me directly.

Cheers!!!

Snowflakes

Hello!  Today I'm highlighting snowflakes.  Selecting which of my favorite snowflake image I should start with is the challenge.  I tend to pile them all in one card and create some kind of a snowstorm, lol.  My newest die cut acquisition is a huge snowflake and I'm leaning towards that, too.

The die cut won!  My card today came together pretty quickly.  This is another card that can be mass produced in no time.

I opted for white cardstock instead of blue, my original choice, and sponged three shades of blue inks across the front for my background.  I started with the lightest blue (bashful blue) above the one inch white space at the bottom.  I followed that with medium blue (marina mist) making sure to blend the two shades.  The darkest shade (midnight muse) was sponged lightly towards the top and heavily on the top edges.  Blend, blend, blend.

Then I stamped the tiny snowflakes all over in the darkest shade of blue, midnight muse, and use the same ink for the sentiment.  I used Brushed Silver cardstock to die cut the snowflakes, the die has 3 different snowflakes, I only used two.  I layered the two snowflakes with dimensionals and added the blings.

It's clean and cool and sparkly.  I like it!

Coming up next is the other snowflake card I made.  Until then............. Cheers!!!

All supplies used are from Stampin'Up.

Holiday Pocket Card Too

Here's the other pocket card I made.  The difference between the two is the length of the front panel.  See the first one HERE.  On this card I kept the front panel long to accommodate the main image and left out the sentiment.  Speaking of image, do you think this will pass for a Christmas tree?  When I was going through my dies, I saw this one from the Foliage dies set by Spellbinders and I thought it would work as a tree.

The panel was dry embossed with Stampin' Up's Perfect Polka Dots folder.   I selected a pattern from Stampin'Up Festival of Prints Designer Paper Stack and die cut the "tree".  I love the look of the tree and you'll definitely see more of those in future posts.  I punched a star from a scrap of red Glimmer Paper.  Added my favorite ribbon and some blings.  How easy is that?

Here's another angle with a peek of the inside.

Okay, I'll stop with the gift card holders now.  I think we have enough ideas on that subject.  I will post a picture recap of all the gift card holders I've done.

Stay tuned for Christmas/Holiday card #5, I'm seeing snow, lots of snow.  Until then ............. Cheers!!!


Supplies:  Cardstocks, glimmer paper, embossing folder and star punch are from Stampin'Up.  Dies are from Spellbinders.  Blings are from Hero Arts.

Holiday Pocket Cards

Here's another pocket card for you and it's oh so easy!

You need a 4.25" x 11" cardstock.  Score at 1.50" and 7" mark on a score board.  If you don't have a score board, score one end at 1.50" and turn the cardstock to the other end and score at 4".  Fold on the score lines, use bone folder to burnish the folds.  The two ends should meet with no gap in between and the folded card should measure 4.25" x 5.50" which is a standard A2 card.  The folded bottom becomes the pocket, seal the sides only.

This is how the scores should look like.

This is the what the folded card should look like.

Embellish the front and inside of your card and you're done.  Isn't it easy?

On my first sample, I used the Nestled Poinsettia from Spellbinders Shapeablities to die cut the poinsettia.  I  also dry embossed the front panel with Stampin' Up's Petals-A-Plenty embossing folder.  Then I added a sentiment to the bottom panel.

What is missing here?  Leaves!!!  I will have to add leaves and upload another picture. 

UPDATE:  Here's the one with leaves!

Below is the inside and side view.

     

The pocket can hold cash or gift card or both!!!

Tomorrow I'll show you the other pocket card I created.  Until then......... Cheers!!!


Supplies:  Cardstocks, inks and embossing folder from Stampin'Up.  Dies from Spellbinders.