HSIAO-HUI'S HOLIDAY CARD - AWESOME!

This is Hsiao-hui's Holiday Card.  It is simply awesome!  She did a stair step card and I love the tree with the tinsel.  If you don't have this tinsel from the holiday mini catalog, get it soon.  The holiday mini catalog only goes until January 3rd.  The silver tinsel is wired, the clear is not.  They both are really nice and sparkly.

 Hsiao-hui used curly cute for the sentiment and a cute Christmas.  These are great sets.

I like how Hsiao-hui embossed the envelope with the snowflakes and the Big Shot.

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.

CANDY CANE CHRISTMAS

This card uses the new candy cane christmas papers. I love them! They are glittered!  I also used the new double petal punch and scallop punch.  I layered the scallops onto the candy cane papers.  The real red scallop has the single under $10 stamp dot, dot, dot stamped on it and of course I had to add crystal effects.  I love making these adorable little envelopes also! The stamp set is a cute christmas and that is where I got the to/from stamp and the candy canes.  It is a brand new stamp set in our brand new Holiday Mini.  The sentiment Merry Christmas is from the stamp set Four the Holidays!

The next Christmas Card class at my home is on Tuesday Sept. 14th.  I hope you can make it!

MORE FROM THE CHRISTMAS CARD CLASS

This Greeting Card Kids set is one of the BEST stamp sets that SU! has ever created, I think!  I am having so much fun with this set.  (watch for some really cool cards coming soon with samples using all of the stamps!) We used this stamp on one of our cards last evening.  We stamped the image using staz on ink (black) and colored it in with our stampinwrite markers.  The papers are the brand NEW SU! Holiday papers called Jolly Holiday!  They are so luscious!  They are located in the main idea book so you can order them anytime.  Never too early to start holiday crafting!

The envelope uses the sentiment from the stamp set Four the Holidays.  This stamp set first became available in last year's holiday mini and was picked up for the main idea book. I'm so glad because it has 4 great sentiments to use for the holidays! I also used one of my favorite holiday stamp sets - Christmas classics - the tree!

These are the Greeting Card Kids stamp set. Aren't they adorable? 

This was another card we made.  I was so excited to use this new stamp set and this new paper.  The stamp set is called A Cute Christmas.  It will be available in the Holiday Mini on September 1st. The paper is called Candy Cane Christmas and it also will be available Sept. 1st.  And Guess what?  The paper is glittered!  I took a sheet of the dsp and cut it down to fit on the front of the card.  Next I used the stamp set called Perfect Punches to punch out the image Joy At Christmas.  I used the scallop circle punch.  The dsp coordinates perfectly with the paper and there are also some new rub ons and builder wheels and decor elements that also coordinate with this theme.

This was the inside of the card. Notice that the front of the card was embossed with my fave - the square lattice die!  The inside of the card is stamped with another new set (from main idea book) called Welcome Christmas.  The silhouette stamps (there are 2 great ones in the set) and the sentiment featured above are the main reasons I had to get that stamp set.

Here Donna and I are working on our card boxes.  The ladies really enjoyed making the boxes. Pat N had her box completed first  She did a great job!  Tonight was Donna's first night with us. She had a great time and we hope to have her back to stamp with us soon! Rita took this picture of us and also took the others shown below.  She didn't want to leave me out!  That was so sweet!

Here I am with Luigi. He was our 10th guest!
Luigi is a regular at our events. Tonight he spent most of the time with Bill downstairs while we all had
fun crafting.  However....he had to stop in to say "hi" to the ladies!

I will have more Christmas Card classes over the next few months. If you come to all of the classes
you will have most all of your cards done in time for the holidays!