Dear Santa. . .

I have made my first Christmas card of the season!!!! This is what I came up with.

I found this adorable little squirrel on the Jolly Holidays Cricut Lite cartridges.  I cut the squirrel and his layers at 3.5".

My card base is white card cut and scored to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base.  I added a red mat cut at 4" X 5 1/4" and then a patterned paper mat cut at 3 3/4" X 5.  The polka dotted mat is actually the reverse side of the striped mat and is cut at 1 1/2" X 3 3/4".

Once I got the different layers adhered to the squirrel base I added some Hero Arts Prisma Glitter to the white ball on top of his hat, the hat trim and the white stripes on the candy cane.

It was a quick and easy card to make.  Thanks for stopping by.

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.