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Day 10: Wrapped in Love

This is a super quick and easy card to make! Elements from the Season of Celebration Mix & Match Ephemera pack (#168494) do all the fun work.

Basic White card base: 5½: x 8½" score at 4¼" 

Secret Sea layer: 4" x 5¼" and the second embossed layer 3¾" x 5"

Adhere layers and then add to the front of the card. Adhere the three packages from the ephemera pack. Stamp the greeting (from Holly Jolly #168273) add a mat behind it and pop it up on the card. 

Viola'

Day 9: Christmas Cheer 

The Christmas Crew stamp set (#168377) just makes me happy, so it was the first one I thought of for this prompt.

I stamped and colored all the images with Blends (Pecan Pie, Light Crumb Cake, Light Black, dark Petal Pink and Pool Party). I then die cut them out along with several trees. It's hard to tell, but did sponge a little bit of Peaceful Pine ink onto the trees. I created two snow drifts and covered them with Wink-a-Stella to give the "glistening snow" effect. I embossed the first layer with an older snowflakes folder and then put everything together to create the cheery snowy scene. 

The bear, moose and greeting were all added to the card front with dimensionals.  

(Oh and just in case you are wondering, the greeting is from the October Paper Pumpkin kit)

 Day 8: Elegant Christmas

Nothing say elegant to me more than the sparkle of gold! In this case, die cut gold foil leaves and gold heat embossed background! 

This beauty was created using the Pretty Poinsettia bundle (#168147) and the Nature's Frame background stamp (#167963)

The Real Red flowers and Garden Green card base add to the classic elegant feel.

 Day 7: Hats off to Santa

Part of the Card a Day in November - Christmas Edition

I don't own very many, if any Santa stamps, so I had to do my own thing for this challenge prompt.

The crazy part of my brain went straight to creating my own Santa by hand cutting pieces to make Santa's face and hat.....I know call my crazy, I can take it!

I added stitching to all the pieces with either a black or white marker and glued them all together. 

 I came back to my right mind to die cut the holly & the greeting label which I die cut from the Stitched Stocking Dies (#168230). I also used A Stitched Season DSP (#168223 which is on the Last Chance list) and the Swirls of Magic embossing folder for the background. 

Ho Ho Ho

2026 Card Sketch #40 

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Let's jump right in and take a look at the first card. This card was made using just about everything in the Neutral Noel Suite (168469). I wanted to challenge myself to make a card that didn't use the little house from this suite and I think this turned out pretty nice. The extra added gold accents and paper really elevate it the next level.

The next card was posted early this week on my Facebook page as part of the Card a Day Challenge I'm participating in with my friend Kevin Theesen.

This card was made using the images included in the A Little Christmas DSP (#168414) and a greeting from the Holly Jolly stamp set (#168273) I just love how the little mouse looks like he's running into the scene. Yes, the little mouse and packages were fussy cut form the paper, even his little tiny tail! I used the Dream Snowflakes Hybrid embossing folder to complete the feel of the card.

Lastly, I had some Hot Foil Buffalo Check (#170590) and Hot Foil greetings from Magical Christmas (#170592) on my desk, so I thought I would use them to create a card. This card is so shiny and beautiful in person, but the picture doesn't really show you well. I also used the Timeless Herringbone Embossing Folder (#169736) to give the black mat a little bit of texture and I heat embossed both the bear and the little stars behind the bear for added detail. The bear and the little bird are from the Woodland Wishes stamp set (#168243)

 Day 6: Winter Wonderland

For the Card a Day in November Challenge - Christmas Edition

I wanted to put the feeling of being outside in the crisp winter air, with glistening snow silently falling all around me into a card. This is what I came up with. A beautiful shaker card with "snow" falling all around the woodland animals.

I started by embossing a 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" piece of white cardstock with the Dreamy Snowflake 3D embossing folder (#168384) and adhere it to the 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" score at 4 1/4" card base in Secret Sea. I then cut a 2 1/2" x 5" piece of Winter Dreams DSP (#168315) and adhered that to the left side of the card front.

I then stamped a 3 1/8" x 4 1/4" piece of white piece of card stock with the large image for the Woodland Wishes stamp set (#168243) I colored around all the animals with a light Pool Party Blend and lined the animals with the light Smokey Slate Blend.

I then cut another 3 1/8" x 4 1/4" piece of card stock in Secret Sea and used my trimmer to cut out the inside of this piece leaving me with a 1/8" outer frame. I cut a piece of window sheet in the same size and glued it to the frame. Line the back of the frame with dimensional strips. place your "snow" in the middle of the white stamped image piece and carefully lay the frame on top to form a shaker panel. This panel is then glued to the front of the card.

Stamp a greeting and adhere it to the card. Add any additional embellishments you like. I used the Adhesive Backed Snowflakes (#168316)

Hope you give this kind of card a try!