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.

An Experiment

I just recently bought the Cricut Cartridge Lyrical Letters. I was amazed at all the extra stuff there is on the cartridge besides the 6 font styles. One of the designs I wanted to cut out was a lacy Christmas tree that is on the cartridge. I cut it out just using some scrap paper I had in peach. Once I cut it out I got out my craft mat and spread a bunch of the Ranger's distress ink in Pine Needle on my mat and lightly misted it. I then ran the tree through the ink to color it green. When I do this again, I will just sponge the ink onto the tree. With all the little twists and turns I had a difficult time getting it covered completely in ink. I decided I wanted to emboss the tree so once it was wet with ink I covered in embossing powder. All I had was a transparent powder Kaleidoscope in color, which gave it an iridescent look. I cut this one out at 5" and it is too big for a quarter-fold card front. I think if I cut it at 4" it should fit the front of a card. I have other ideas floating around in my head about this little tree and what I could do with it but wanted to share what I came up with. The picture above shows the tree before and after the inking and embossing and does do the embossing justice. Thanks for looking.