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December 24, 2017
CHRISTMAS JOY
Sending Christmas Joy
The perfect card design for a sister who shares my memories of skating together, years ago. Oh, the hours we'd spend on the ice until our toes were frozen! (Click pictures for close-up.)
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| Figure Skates, Shimmery Gold accents, Snowflakes and Greenery |
Details
This card is a generous size: card base measures 4-1/4" x 6-1/2". It is thick with layers and needed to be mailed in a protective, puffy envelope to protect the skates.
Everything was created in Cricut Design Space EXCEPT for the punched pine branches. See list of cartridges below.
Inside
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| Figure Skates Christmas Card -- Inside |
Poem and Verse, by Grace Baxter
Cartridges Used:
- White embossed background overlay, flourish design label, from Elegant Edges, embossed with snowflakes
- Gold foil frame, flourish rectangle, from Elegant Edges
- Sentiment frame shape, label from Heritage
- Figure skates, from Go Canada!
- "Sending Christmas Joy" sentiment, written with Alphalicious font
Merry Christmas, Friends!
December 22, 2017
2-Minute TAGS
Gift Tags in a Flash
Here is the quickest way to make pretty Christmas tags for your gifts.Start with a package or two of gift tag stickers. I bought mine from Joanne, on sale. Choose the red and green combo, gold and silver, or blue with silver. I like a variety to go with any bag or wrap.
Gift tag stickers are, when stuck directly on a gift -- flimsy and ordinary. They also get thrown out with the ripped off wrappings. With my beefed-up tags, they can be used every year! Just save them after all the gifts are opened.
Tags From Scraps
It's a great way to use scraps of foil cardstock, which we know can be pricey. I also used regular matte red and green.
Punch the corners and punch a small hole for ribbon or cording to go through. I always have red, green, gold and silver cording on hand for Christmas tags.
I also punched some tiny notes from silver CS to use either as confetti or to glue to other tags. I like the added gleam. Foil tags give sparkle on the gifts when the tree lights shine on them.
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| Cutting Tags from Shimmer and Foil Cardstock Scraps |
Have fun making these easy, pretty gift tags!
December 11, 2017
EASY NOEL BLOCKS
Easy and Fun NOEL Blocks
These Christmas blocks make up so quickly, you might want a few sets that say different festive phrases!
SUPPLIES
- 4 wooden cubes. Mine are 3" x 3" x 3"
- White cardstock
- Silver shimmer cardstock
- Gold foil cardstock
- Red foil cardstock (optional)
- Red rhinestones
- A favourite chunky font. I used the Storybook font because of the elegant serifs.
LAYERS
Silver layer, bottom
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Gold layer
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Red layer added
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Green layer added
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DIRECTIONS
- Cut squares from white cardstock to fit your blocks.
- Cut letters as large as possible, leaving 1/4" border
- With any Cricut machine, cut the various layers from Silver, Gold, Red and Green.
- Red cardstock is optional and not really necessary IF you plan on using red rhinestones to give the blocks a more sparkly and chunky look.
Thanks for visiting.
Merry Christmas!
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