Karen Varcoe, Gresham OR kvarcoe@aol.com 503 267 6080

Monday, November 7, 2011

Holiday Cards

Here's the 10 cards we did for our Holiday Card Workshop.   We did 2 each of these ten cards using a variety of stamp sets, the Believe papers, an Olive Mini Medley, the Chocolate striped ribbon, Sweet Leaf ribbon, Cranberry Ribbon, White Ribbon, Red and Silver Glitz Gel, Colonial White Waxy Flax and the Holiday Pockets.   We used Cranberry, Holiday Red, Topiary, and Chocolate inks. These cards feature the CTMH Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge - it's so fun to have stamps to match up with precut images - so much easier than all the cutting we used to do.


 The Magic of Christmas Never Ends is from D1492, Christmas Love Stamp Set.
 The felt Holiday Pockets come in green, red and blue, and are the perfect size to slide in a gift card!
 On this card and two others, we used the cute little "zip strips" that come on the top of the printed papers now.   The back of the decorated zip strips have the paper pack name and all the colors used in it.  The sentiment is from Christmas Love Stamp Set, and the ornament is from Holiday Cheer.
 Here's my favorite - the sleight card.   I love blue and green together!
 This wreath card is made using the Remarkable Wreath stamp set.  It has the berries, flowers and leaves, making it a very seasonally versatile stamp set.  It also has several banners that stretch across the wreath:  4 You, Thanks, and Love, as well as the bow.
 This Merry Christmas card is from C1469, December 25th.
 The Santa was colored with Cranberry and Topiary inks with our blending pen.  The Santa is from the Believe Workshop Stamp Set.
 This card was also made with C1469, December 25th.  The holly leaves are made with the A Holiday stamp set - just $6.95!   See how the Cricut Art Philosophy images line up with our stamps - gotta love it!
 On this card we used Holiday Cheer.  I love these tabs from the Olive Mini Medley!