Except at our house - I have a hard time with the crowding of Christmas into Halloween and Thanksgiving. I just can't bring myself to think about Christmas until Thanksgiving has passed by a couple of weeks. I don't start decorating until about the 2nd week of December. But I do, however, think about Christmas cards. The mail service is so poor these days that cards have to go out earlier than before.
So, we got all of the Thanksgiving dishes cleared away - it took 3 dishwasher loads - and I cleaned up my craft room and started on Christmas cards. I'm looking for ideas that are easy to make in volume and also can be mailed with standard postage. That means no dimensional foam or brads or enamel dots. CAS it is!
My first holiday card of the season is in response to Freshly Made Sketches #714 - A Sketch by Cécile.
For this card I dug deep into my stash to the very beginning of my cardmaking to some old Anna Griffin printed paper I had been hoarding for more than 20 years. I could just never bear throwing any of it out! I started with a top-folded A2 card base I made with heavy watercolor paper. I die cut a stitched frame panel and opening from the same paper and silver heat embossed the sentiment (Hero Arts CM379). I slipped a small scrap of the ochre colored swirl coordinating paper behind the opening and glued the panel to the face of the card. The ornament was fussy cut from two leftover ornament images on scraps of the Anna Griffin paper and layered. The one new thing is this beautiful layered bow from Recollections that came as a die set with other bows, and I die cut it from textured silver metallic paper. This year I'm really into layered die-cut bows, so you'll no doubt be seeing some more of them in the next couple of weeks!
Freshly Made Sketches: Freshly Made Sketches #714 - A Sketch by Cécile
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What a beautiful ornament, Fran! Wonderful card!
ReplyDeleteYou have created an elegant card and it is so pretty! Thank you for joining us at FMS this week!
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous and so very elegant. There's a lot to be said for hoarding, but using it is worth it :) Thanks so much for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning! This card is nothing but pure elegance, Fran! Thanks so much for sharing with us at FMS.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your win, Fran! It is a stunning Christmas card and beautiful rendition of Cecile's Sketch!
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Such a lovely ornament and card, Fran! Congrats on your deserving win at FMS!
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