Month: November 2024

30 Days of Christmas Cards – Day 3

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Here is a nice card to help you use up some of your scraps. Your base is 8.5″ x 5.5″, folded in half or use a pre-made card base.

Ingredients:

  • Red cardstock – cut at 4″ x 5.25″
  • white cardstock – cut at 3.75″ x 5″
  • The candles are cut from 3 different patterned papers
    • 3.25″ x 1.25″
    • 2.5″ x 1.25″
    • 2″ x 1.25″
  • Gold glitter paper cut into 3 flames

Instructions:

  • Attach red cardstock to white card base, centered.
  • attach white cardstock to red cardstock, centered
  • attach 1st candle 1/4″ from edge of white cardstock
  • attach 2nd candle to the right of the first one.
  • attach the 3rd candle over the seam where candle 1 & 2 meet
  • attach flames

To add interest to my card, I ran the candle pieces through my old paper crimper. I also cut some greenery to put at the bottom of the candles and added a red sparkle for a berry.

If you have any questions about this card or anything else, please leave a comment below this post and I will respond. If you need an answer right away, feel free to text me at 801-800-0884.

Creatively, Carol

30 Days of Christmas Cards – Day 2

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Supplies:

  • Cardstock base
  • red cardstock
  • black cardstock
  • adhesive
  • glitter
  • small cotton balls or pom poms

Cutting Instructions:

  • Your base is 8.5″ x 5.5″
  • A is red cardstock cut at 4.25″ x 5.5″
  • B is the black belt, measuring 2″ x 5.5″
  • C was cut with the cricut but you can create it without a machine. Cut paper 2.5″ x 1″.

Assembly Instructions:

  1. attach red cardstock to card base
  2. cut the center out of piece C to resemble the belt going through the buckle
  3. add adhesive across buckle and sprinkle gold glitter. You can also heat emboss this piece for a more solid coverage
  4. attach cotton balls/pom poms down front above belt.

If you have any questions, please leave them below or text me at 801-800-0884 or email me at [email protected]

Creatively,

Carol

30 Days of Christmas Cards

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If you make Christmas cards for sending your very best thoughts during the upcoming holiday season you want them to arrive before Christmas. The post office deadline for first class mail is December 15th, 2024 for Christmas delivery, December 20 for Hanukkah (Dec. 25–Jan. 2), or even Kwanzaa (Dec. 26–Jan. 1) you want to mail by December 21st.

So for the next 30 days I will post a new Christmas Card with instructions, my Christmas gift to you. Here are the directions for this first Christmas Card:

Supplies include cardstock, patterned paper, embossed paper, favorite outdoor stamp set. Your card parts are cut accordingly:

Card base is 8.5″ x 5.5″ if you choose to make your own….

A. 3.5″ x 5.5 patterned paper

B. 1.25″ x 5.5″ embossed card stock

C. 3.25″ x 3.75″ solid card stock

D. 3″ x 3.5″ white cardstock

Instructions:

  • Cut all papers before starting the project. This will streamline the process of putting all your cards together.
  • fold card base in half so fold is at the top.
  • attach patterned paper as shown at the top of the card
  • attach embossed paper as shown at the bottom of the card
  • Stamp and color white cardstock with your chosen image
  • mount on colored cardstock, then mount on card.

If you have any questions, please leave them under the post and I will get back to you quickly, or you can text me at 801-800-0884, or e-mail me at [email protected]

Creatively, Carol

There’s a new page in town

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canned 12 x 12 scrapbook page

No, I am not talking about the scrapbook page above, but that is part of it. On my blog, there is a page called “Scrapbook Scanning” and it tells you all about my new venture. I once mailed away my scrapbook pages to be scanned and it took 9 months of phone calls to finally get them back and to make matters worse, the disc they sent with the pages was corrupt! What a nightmare. So I bought a true 12 x 12 scanner AFTER I bought a 12 x 12 printer with a scanner only to find out you were suppose to “stitch” your pages together! Not happening, so I bit the bullet and bought a true 12 x 12 scanner and the picture above is the scanned page.

There is a page to give you more information, just click here.

Creatively, Carol