Christmas Wishes

I made a couple of quick Christmas cards using my Imagine and the Enjoy the Seasons and Snow Angel Imagine Cartridges.

This first card is a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card. I started with a cream colored card stock base. I added a dark green polka dotted patterned paper mat and then the Kraft card stock with the snowflakes. I sprayed the cream colored card stock with some Old Lace Glimmer Mist. I sprayed the Kraft snowflake patterned paper with some pearl Glimmer Mist, and in person this card sparkles. My image is from the Enjoy the Seasons Imagine cartridge cut at 4" using the layers feature on the Imagine.  I used foam tape between the layers for dimension and added added some red pearls to the branch. I also added a dark green stitched ribbon and tucked the branch bottom under the ribbon. Finally I stamped the image with some black ink and the sentiment is from the Cardz TV stamp set Home for Christmas.

My second card uses a Kraft card stock base also  4/14' X 5 1/2". I used the same green and Kraft patterned paper for my card.Then I cut one of the cut little snowman from the Snow Angel Imagine cartridge. I used a Sakura glue pen and some extra fine glitter on some of the snowflakes on the Kraft card stock. I used foam tape between the layers of the Imagine cut and used the Sakura glue pen and glitter along the snow under the little snowman. I added my sentiment and another Christmas card done.

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Gingerbread House - Christmas in July

This month on the Design Team blog to help everyone start thinking about their holiday crafts we are featuring some Christmas in July project. My project today for you is this cute little treat box. A friend gave me the new Sweet Tooth Boxes project cartridge and when I saw this sweet house in the book I knew what I wanted to do.

I started with some kraft card stock and using the suggestion in the book cut my house and it's layers at 10". To make the house you have to cut 2 of the actual house. Because I wanted to dress mine up a little and add a Christmas Tree to the inside I used my Gypsy and hid the window on one side of the house so it wouldn't cut. I also hid the flowers and the flower boxes because I wasn't using them. I hope you can see the tree I added to the inside of the house. I cut the tree at 3.1" using my Imagine and the Snow Angel Cricut Imagine Cartridge. I used Scor-tape to assembly the house together. I added some clear acetate to the window of my house so it looked like glass. I cut the grass for the house out of white and ran it through my Cuttlebug and the D'Vine Swirls embossing folder.  I then ran it upside down through my Xyron and covered it with some chunky glitter and adhered to to the sides of the house.

To dress up the outside of the house I added some Polar White Flower Soft along the roof line and edge. To the front of the house, I added a brad for a door knob and using the Snow Angel cartridge and the layers feature on my Imagine I cut two pots of poinsettias to place on each side of the door. I then used my Jolly Holidays Lite cartridge to cut a wreath that I attached to the door.

I added some Christmas Red Stickles for the berries on the wreath and also the ornaments on the tree. I used some Star Dust Stickles to some of the poinsettias to help them stand out and add a little more bling. The roof slides on to the top of the box and over those two solid pieces that act as a handle. It was a lot of fun making this and I am ready to fill it later this fall with some yummy goodies!