Believe - Christmas Cards

I finally had a chance to work on a few more Christmas Cards to get out to relatives that live locally. I used some 5 X 7" pre folded white cards that I bought at a craft store. I cut a green card stock mat 1/4" smaller than the card and then a mat out of the patterned paper which is from My Minds Eye a 1/4" smaller than the green card stock. The trees were cut at 4" from the Winter Woodland Cricut Cartridge. I added some Glossy Accents and Coarse Martha Stewart Glitter to the white layer on the trees to give the snow some sparkle. For the Snowman, he was cut at 5" from the Joys of the Season Cricut Cartridge. I used the same sentiment, ink and embossing powder on this card as I did the other card. The ribbon is some from my stash I bought last year. The stars were cut using American Craft glitter card stock. This card stock is beautiful and very heavy. To cut the stars I had my blade at 6 pressure at max and did  multi cut 3. Thanks for visiting.

Cricut Cardz Challenge

Well, I have had a week this week that I never want to live through again. Things are very slowly turning around. For the first time in a week I felt like I could do some crafting if nothing else to take my mind off of our situation. The challenge this week over at Cricut Cardz Challenge was to make a Christmas card using the card feature from any cartridge and using any colors we want. Given that I wasn't feeling very creative but needed the diversion I decided to keep it simple.

The card I used was from the Winter Woodland cartridge. I cut the card at 5 1/2" and it is a square card. I used ivory card stock for my card base. For the patterned paper I used my Gypsy and the layer for the card, sized it down to about 5 1/4" and added a circle from which I sized just a little bigger than the circle of the card. That patterned paper is from a Cloud 9 multi seasonal paper pack. I also used the actual sleigh cuts from the cartridge and again used my gypsy to resize them as closely as I could to fit the cut on the card. For the snowy look behind the sleigh, I used some clear packing tape that I taped over the hole using some wide packing tape in the card and added some chunky glitter. To finish the inside of the card and to cover the tape I added an ivory mat and a mat of the patterned paper. I also added some red rhinestones to the holly leaves on the sleigh. My sentiment is from a Hero Arts clear stamp set.

Cardinal Christmas Card

Here is a quick card I made last night using the Winter Woodland Cricut cartridge. It was a lot of fun to make. The card is a standard A2 size. The red mat was cut at 4" X 5 1/4" the white mat was cut at 3 3/4" X 5. I ran this white piece through my Cuttlebug and embossed it using the snowflake embossing folder. All the cuts were cut at 2". I first saw this color combination on the Christmas With the Cricut blog and thought it looked so elegant that I knew I had to do a card using the idea.