CHRISTMAS IN JULY

Well, it's July and that means that some of the stores will start putting up Christmas items for sale and that also means that Crafters will start making and selling Christmas crafts and cards.  I'm starting a Christmas Card club.  You can belong to the club and each month get all of the ideas you will need to complete your Christmas cards on time this year.  See my SU! website for the details (calendar section).  To start it off, I created this card using the stamp set Contempo Christmas.  I stamped the tree using my stampinwrite markers by SU! and then stamped the sentiment in cherry cobbler.  The card stock colors are cherry cobbler, whisper white and BRAND NEW - lucky limeade.  This new color is just a bit softer than old olive and a little more rich than certainly celery or pear pizzaz.  You will want this color and the other NEW in colors.  They are gorgeous.  And...last years in colors are still out for another year.  In colors overlap a year and each set will last 2 years. 

Also on this card, I punched the NEW lace border punch by SU!  and added Rhinestones. New to SU! but not yet in my collection - is cherry cobbler embossing powder.  I can't wait to get it and it is currently on order.  This will look great embossed!  The Christmas tree on the card has been highlighted with dazzling diamonds glitter - such a great addition to any card for the holidays!


Speaking of embossed...I embossed the sentiment on the inside with white embossing powder. This is going to be the in thing this season. Get out your heat guns and join the trend.

The ornament that is part of the set was embossed with iridescent ice embossing powder on cherry cobbler card stock and then punched out with our SU! ornament punch which coordinates nicely with the stamp set.  I stamped the sentiment on the envelope with lucky limeade classic ink pad.  Love it!

This is the NEW lace border punch, exclusive to SU!  Make sure you get one soon.  You will be seeing a lot done with it in the coming weeks and it is a great addition to your crafting projects.

A CUTE CHRISTMAS HAS A LOT OF POSSIBILITIES

This Christmas card is really neat.  It uses ornaments from a stamp set I've used before called A Cute Christmas.  Just stamp the ornaments on whisper white ultra smooth card stock using black staz on.  Color ornaments with watercolors - cherry cobbler and always artichoke.  Add dazzling diamonds glitter for highlights to make the ornaments sparkle.  Isn't that part of what Christmas is about?  The sparkle?  Next stamp Merry Christmas sentiment in cherry cobbler classic ink from the stamp set contempo Christmas.  The ribbon is the most elegant.  It is the satin seam binding in cherry cobbler from the SU! holiday mini.

Here is the inside of the card and the envelope.

The inside of the card has presents stamped in black staz on. These gifts are a stamped image also in A Cute Christmas.  The sentiment is really neat and goes so well with the image.  It says Christmas is Love with All the Trimmings.   The designer paper is from the dsp pack of rich regals.  You only need a strip that is 5.5 inches by 1 inch.  Punch the front of the card with the mini heart border punch so the dsp shows through.  The envelope uses the same Merry Christmas and the tree from Contempo Christmas.  I don't know if you can tell but the tree is glittered with dazzling diamonds as well.  This card is CASED from Glenda Travelstead from the Baltimore Regionals.  Don't you just love it? We also made this card at the Christmas Card III class.

WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS CARD CLASS TONIGHT

We had a GREAT CHRISTMAS CARD class tonight.  There were 9 of us in class (10 if you count my cute doggie Luigi who came up at the end of class) at my home.  We made 4 cards and this lovely Christmas card box. The sentiment on the card box is one of my all time favorite Christmas stamps from the stamp set called Christmas Classics. Yes, I finally got that stamp set.

Here are some photos from class. The first two show some of the attendees.


Those that attended included Rita Gorrick, Donna Perlman, Pat Nuckels, Dale Trott, Cathy Stritch, Lori Butler, and Peggy Kincaid. 

Here are 2 of the cards we made.  I'll post the other 2 tomorrow.

This card uses a Big Shot texturz plate on the old olive card stock and the Christmas designer paper called jolly holiday.  The stamp set is Contempo Christmas and it has a great coordinating wheel that we didn't use yet.  The ornament punch works great on this card!  The card stock is Cherry Cobbler and it is so rich.  I felt like I was working on velvet.

This card uses the stamp set Winter Post and also uses the level 3 hostess set called Occasional Quotes.  We used the brushed gold paper on top of soft suede card stock. The ink colors are real red, early expresso and chocolate chip.  The sentiment on the front of the card is from Heard from the Heart stamp set.

Ok...more of the cards tomorrow.