Star Fold Christmas Cards

I found this tutorial for Star Fold Cards by Tina Zinck and I decided to give it a go 

Here are the 3 cards I made:

For the first one I used retired Stampin up paper and die cuts I got in Europe. Sentiment is from a Tim Holtz booklet.

Fab'n'Funky  - Christmas

Christmas Crafts All Year Round - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

If You Give Crafter a Cookie - Time for Santa

Everybody Art - Bingo (top Row - Green, Red, Christmas)

Another retired SU paper pack was used for this one - I also fussy cut the images from the same paper

Cardz 4 Galz - A Cute Christmas

Crafty Galz - Tis The Season

These papers are from Paper Rose and the snowman cut apart too. Added a bit of Sticklez for extra bling.

CRAFT Challenge - Christmas

The Crafting Challenge - Christmas

Festive Blooms Christmas card

Continuing Christmas card production for this year.

For this card I used Concord & 9th Festive Blooms bundle and cardstock from my scrap box.

Sentiment is also from the same bundle.

Krafty Chicks - Christmas

The Holy and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes

Sparkles Christmas Challenge - use the word Christmas

Die Cut Divas - Anything Goes with a Die

Ornament Inlay Christmas cards

I just got this fun die called Ornament Inlay from Concord & 9th and had to take it out for a test drive.

 Used 4 different cardstocks - most of them shiny or pearlescent, used the die and then mixed them up. I used double sided adhesive sheets to stick everything down - it's faster and less messy then to glue every little piece separately.

Sentiments are mostly from a Simon Says stamp set. I kept the cards flat for easy mailing.

A Cut Above - anything with die cuts

Krafty Chicks - Christmas

ABC Christmas - U is for Unusual Christmas Colors

Die Cut Divas - Anything Goes

Scrappy Christmas Cards

 I like this month's sketch from Call Me Crafty Al SheetLoad of Cards - but instead of using new sheets of DSP I decided to use leftovers from various Christmas paper collections. This sketch is perfect for it because you only needs strips that are 1.75" or 1" wide. In total I made 16 cards. All the sentiments and most of the CS are from SU.

For the cards in the first picture I used scraps from older BoBunny and MME collections

These are older SU papers - dies are SU too.

Challenges:

Allsorts - Add a Sentiment

As You Like It - Fav Christmas Style - mine is contemporary  - because it feels fun and fresh 

Krafty Chicks - Christmas

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas

Echo Park - WInter Magic - 25 cards from a pack

I started to make Christmas cards and I'm planning to give out a bunch as gifts so I needed to speed up the process so I came back to using up the whole paper pack.

Started with 6x6 Echo Park pad called Winter Magic - everything is blue, white and I added silver accents here and there.

These are probably my favorites - using Merries Moments stamp set and dies from Stampin Up, so I made 4 of them with just slight variations

Dragonfly Dreams - Winter/Christmas

Stamping Sensation - Christmas

Aud Sentiment - Christmas + Sentiment

More cards using various stamps and dies

Allsorts - Christmas

and some featuring the cute patterned paper from the pad

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas

Krafty Chicks - Christmas

and several cards using the cut aparts from the pad

LOTV Angels with BoBunny papers

 Here is another card I made with BoBunny Powder Mountain papers. Image is by LOTV and it's colored with alcohol markers. Sentiment is from Stampin Up

Challenges:

Allsorts - Santa, Elves, Angels
The Holly and the Ivy  - Anything Christmas Goes
Cardz 4 Galz - Cute Christmas

Double D - Winter Blues

SOS434 - Let It Snow

Our current challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow - so anything snow related.

 For my card I used 3 different patterned papers from an old BoBunny 6x6 pad called Powder Mountain. I love the snowflake paper, so I decided to showcase it and used only a one word die cut sentiment from Stampin Up.

And yes, I finished the whole pack and will post more cards made with these papers soon.

Challenges:

Corrosive Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper

Vintage Christmas in July

Our newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Christmas in July - and since it's our 400th challenge most of our team mates are offering a blog candy. So make sure you comment to win.

For my card I used a stamp from Stampendous called Snowy Postcard

It's very easy to make lovely cards with this stamp. I just sponged the stamped image with brown distress inks  and then added frantage shabby white embossing powder around the edges. For decoration I just layered several snowflake die cuts and added a vintage brad.

For my blog candy I'm offering this new Darice embossing folder for anyone who will comment on this post. Just tell me where are you from and if you celebrate Christmas.

Challenges:
Winter Wonderland - Christmas / Winter Buildings

Get Creative Challenges - Monochromatic

International Art & Soul - Christmas in July

Crafty Calendar - Christmas in July

30 day Use Your Scraps challenge - Day 25 - Deck The Halls

Day 25

 - brings a simple little Christmas card - no idea where the image is from - maybe Bugaboo, but I had it for years

Just very quickly colored it with markers and layered it (together with punched borders) on top of poinsettia embossed cardstock. Kept it flat for easy mailing

Challenges:
Crimbo Crackers - Anything Christmas Goes

ABC Christmas Challenge - D for Decorations

Cute N Crafty Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes

Fab 'n' funky - Christmas

30 day Use Your Scraps challenge - Day 13 - Puzzle Deer Christmas Card

Day 13

on this card I wanted to showcase the last bit of my favorite Christmas papers from BoBunny - it's probably at least 4-5 years old and I can't find it anymore. But it's better if it's on a card than in my scrap box, right?

I realized that the piece was exactly the same size as my puzzle die so I cut it up and put it back together as a puzzle. 

Note for future use: looks a little flat, so I will probably adhere several pieces of paper before using the die next time. 

Sentiment and the deer are embossed with silver EP and then I had a bit of trouble taking a photo of it since it was too shiny :)

Challenges:
Winter Wonderland - Anything Christmas/Winter

Crimbo Crackers - Anything Christmas goes

30 day Use Your Scraps challenge - Day 2 - Fairy Christmas

Day 2

I'm back with another Penny Black card - this time with a fairy I had colored and cut out previously (leftover from a swap couple years back) and a watercolored/salted background from my stash

Sentiment is from the same stamp set as the fairy and then I just layered it up and added some adhesive sequins for extra festive look

Challenges:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Heat Embossing (sentiment and wings)

The Fairy and Unicorn - Anything Frosty

Cute n' crafty Christmas - Christmas/Winter

Christmas Tilda

Merry Christmas to everyone!

Another Christmas card here - this time with one of the older Tildas

She's colored with alcohol markers and cut out by hand. Sentiment is from a retired Stampin Up set. 

Challenges:
Magnolia Forever - AG/option of Christmas / Winter

Crafty Cardmakers - Christmas

Addicted to Stamps - non-traditional Christmas Colors

Colour Crazy - anything colored

Christmas Angel

I didn't post anything in ages so I guess it's time :) I made a bunch of Christmas Cards this season, most were given away without even seeing my camera. But here is one that made it

I used a Stampin' Up stamp set called Angels on Earth and based the card on the catalogue sample.

I'm entering it into these challenges:
Winter Wonderland - Anything Christmas Goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes/use the word Christmas
Addicted to Stamps - Non-traditional Christmas Colors

SOS332 - Christmas Ornament Shaker Card

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called I Like To Move It and we want to see something moving on everyone's creations. I made a shaker card with current Stampin' Up products:

Supplies:

Stamp Sets: Christmas Pines ( 142049)

Inks: Emerald Envy (141396)

Paper: Whisper White (100730), Emerald Envy (141415), Silver Glimmer (135314)

Dies: Pretty Pines Thinlits (141851), Layering Circle Framelits (141705), Hometown Greetings Edgelits (144671)

Other: Window Sheets (142314), Snail Adhesive (104332), Foam Adhesive Strips (141825), Multipurpose Liquid Glue (110755)

Challenges

Card Mania - Christmas

Christmas Cards All Year Round - anything Christmas

Paperminutes - Christmas Ornaments

Dream Valley - Christmas

The Crazy Challenge - Christmas is Coming

SOS301 - Merry Christmas with House Mouse

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Back To Basics and we want participants to put away their dies and fussy cut something.
What has more fussy cutting than House Mouse 3D sheets, where you need to cut out several layers of everything? Probably not much :)

The paper is really shiny so it was a bit hard to get a good picture.

and here is a detail view where all the cut out leaves are better visible.

Challenges:
Come and Get It - Make It Square
The Crazy Challenge - leafy green
Christmas with the Cuties - add some holly
Crafting By Design - Christmas

SOS265 - Good Word for Christmas Card with Stampin' Up Dies

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called What's the Good Word? and we want you to use word dies.

For my card I decided to use dies only - and I used Flourish dies from Stampin' Up with a last year's Christmas Greetings sentiment die (also from Stampin Up). 

Timeout Challenges - Holidays with no stamping

Come and Get It - punches & dies

HLS - anything with dies