Christmas cards with retro elements always make me smile. Old fashioned backgrounds, fun typography, I love it all! For my project today, I had to pair my new Hero Arts Christmas stamps with some bright, Christmas-y colored card stock. For my background, I heat embossed a large background image onto a panel of Astrobright Gamma…
Sometimes you need a Christmas card design that you can quickly mass-produce. These CAS Vintage Christmas cards featuring gorgeous metallic cardstock are perfect for multiples. Specialty Cardstock The key to a simple design that boasts a luxurious feel is to start by choosing quality cardstock. For the card fronts, I chose Curious Metallic Botanic, Curious…
By Angelica Conrad Hi everyone, Angelica here with a set of thank you note cards, using several different papers from CutCardStock. Christmas has come, and a lot of gifts were exchanged! I have a stamp set that is perfect for holiday thank you cards. I thought these notecards were the perfect size to write a…
Hi friends, Angelica here and I have a set of Christmas cards to share with you all using card stock and die. For these cards, I used Red Wagon and Granny Smith Discount Card Stock, and My Favorite Things Poinsettia Die set. I used two sheets of Red Wagon to die cut 5 flowers, and…
Larger cards can be overwhelming to decorate when you need a several. A1 cards are a perfect size. They can still be sent through the mail, hold a gift card, used as a tag for a package or gift bag, and added to a fresh flower arrangement. I started with a flat A7 card (5″…
Happy Wednesday my dear crafty friends! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving holiday. Christmas is around the corner. Are you ready with your handmade Christmas cards? Hopefully, the card I’m sharing today may give you some inspiration. Here it is. I love these cute bitty bears! I colored them with Copic markers. The scalloped…
Happy Holiday Season! It’s certainly looking like Christmas here in Chicagoland, as we received a huge snowstorm on Sunday night, blanketing the land in white, and even canceling school! Hopefully, it will stick around long enough for us to have a white Christmas. I’m super excited to be hosting Christmas dinner this year, so I…
Hello and welcome to Day 3 of our Holiday Countdown! Niki here and today I have a clean and simple card for you featuring die embossing and a little bit of no-line coloring. I used a super thick piece of Savoy 236# Cotton cardstock cut to 5-1/4” x 4” to make the card front. You…
I’m not a big holiday person, and since we typically don’t spend it at our house, I don’t do a lot of decorating. But since this is the first Christmas in our new house, I am excited to add some holiday-themed items around our new space. I came across a post with these paper gingerbread…
Happy Friday my dear crafty friends! With Thanksgiving and Christmas around the corner, are you busy with creating cards for your family and friends? Hopefully, our cards can inspire each other during this special time of year. Here is a Christmas card I made with an embossing folder, Distress Ink blending, and die-cutting. Prepare the…
Hello creative friends! Somehow we are halfway through November already? Craziness! I’m already totally in the holiday spirit. I love, love, love Thanksgiving, but Christmas is on my brain big time! This past Sunday I held a Brush Lettering Workshop at a darling stationery shop in Geneva, IL. I’m a total introvert, so standing up…
‘Tis the season! The season to crank out those Christmas cards. For holiday cards, I like to create an assembly line process. I still try to create unique cards for everyone but streamline by creating many elements at the same time. For these cards, I used Curious Metallic Card Stock in Ice Silver, Pow Glitter Paper in…