My Anna Griffin Haul With Tips On Putting The Cards Together

Good afternoon! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving surrounded by those you love. And of course, you didn't eat too much! Well after I the evening was done at our house my mother, daughter and grand daughter spent the evening after all else was gone or sleeping the food off going through all the fliers. so I didn't get this post done. Sorry! Anyway you have been shopping all morning so now you can take a break and read over my post.
I love Anna Griffin and had to get all the goodies to make the Christmas cards. I have had so much fun and still have a lot to do to finish. This post is for those of you that got the kits but haven't started. There are 2 videos, 1 that shows you what I bought and the 2nd what I made with tips interjected in. So grab a cup of coffee or tea and join me.

Isn't that awesome? Nothing nicer that getting the goodies. I was so excited.

Didn't you just love those cards. Yes I can brag as Anna did all the designing all I did was put them together with a little imagination. How fun this was not cutting.

Below you will find a ton of photos that I am not going to describe. However with that said toward the very bottom you will find photos where the fronts are done and the working is on the inside. Be sure to check that out also. They took more creativity and I love them. At first I thought I should have bought 2 boxes of the pop ups but I am happy I went this way.

Here are the different style cards were I designed the front and printed the inside. Just get your Explore out and have fun creating your headings and inside of the cards. I hope you like.

Thank you for joining me today. I hope you enjoyed this post and came away with a few tips and lots of encouragement! Thanks for your encouraging words, your comments continue to inspire me to keep sharing with me.

A Variety of Christmas Cards

Merry Christmas, Season's Greetings & Happy Holidays everyone! It's Danita from danitasdesigns.blogspot.com

Today I'm sharing a few of the Christmas cards that I have made for this year.  These are not the mass produced ones that I stressed about making (I'll share those later) . Most of these were actually made at a crop I went to back in July.

This is one of my favorites.  I used the Memory Box Clairmont Ornaments die and Teresa Collins Checking it Twice Christmas paper pad.

Inside

 I made this with images from the Silhouette Store. I used the Glitzy Glitter paper pad from DCVW.

Stampin Up Ornament Keepsakes stamp set, dies and ink.

Here's the inside of this one. The tree is from Stampin Up Lovely as a Tree stamp set

The tree from the Silhouette store, Paper stack is Recollections Starry Night paper pad.

Memory Box Merry Christmas to All die and the plaided paper is by American Crafts.

This card was made using my Craftwell Ebrush on the background. The angel is from the Cricut Christmas cartridge, cut in foam from Dollar Tree on my Cricut Explore. (Yes, I have both machines)

Okay, I know this is the ugly "Christmas Card" but I was trying to duplicate a card I saw on Pinterest.

It didn't turn out too well. lol  Oh well, this may go to a distant relative. Bahahaha!

Thanks for stopping by.

Joy To The World Christmas Window Card

Isn't this a beautiful little card. I have a light on the side of it so you can see that it is a window card, complete with a window. I love window cards and was thrilled when I figure out how to do them on my Explore... even more thrilled that it was easier than on the CCR or Gypsy! Originally I was making this card for a card party and cut out 12! Well after getting them all cut out I decided that I wanted to keep them for myself as I make my own cards and I love religious cards so this one is perfect.

Now wasn't that a lot easier than you thought? I used a lot of glitter pager from My Minds Eye. And I want to remind you that this particular card that I am showing has every blunder cut that happened. I had to get some new mats out then all went well.  Let's see if this works..... this is the url to the file you must be signed into your Design Space account.

This is a close up of the front and as you can see it does have a window in the card.

Close up of the inside. I used a stamp and ink from close to my heat. It is beautiful.

Here is another close up of the card I wish the picture looked as good as the card, as it is stunning and just shimmers as you hold it in the light.

Thank you for joining me today. I enjoyed sharing my card with you and hope you liked it too. Thanks for your sweet-sweet words of encouragement. Your comments always inspire me to continue sharing with you. Have a blessed week.

March Christmas Inspiration

Hi Everyone...it's Sonya here today from Sonya's Paper Trail and I'm so excited to be sharing another Christmas card with you today.  You might recall that I'm posting a monthly holiday card, in hopes of inspiring others to get a jump start on those cards this year.  

Check out the card I made this month:

 

What I love about this card is how easy it would be to mass produce this design!  You could easily cut a ton of ovals using a die cutter and set up an assembly line to knock out a bunch of these.  

 

I added a few gemstones to Dasher's antlers for a little bit of holiday bling.  I'm really loving olive green and this lovely, deep red with grey accents.  This is quickly becoming a "go to" color combination for me!

Materials used:

Cardstock: Stampin' UP!

Patterned Paper: Tis the Season by Echo Park

Stamps: Dasher by SU and sentiment by My Craft Spot

Inks: SU

Ribbon and Gems: Misc.

I hope you have a super day...and thanks to Sheila for having me on her team!