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Last Minute Quick and Easy Christmas Cards

Ok everyone, time is running out to make and send out those Christmas cards.  I know, I know by now your saying, "with all the shopping and packing and wrapping and parties, I just don't have the time.'  Well I have two cards that you can make in a very short amount of time, that are super easy and cute. Click on the images to enlarge them.

                                                                                                                                                        

 

For this first card, I took my snowman stamp from the SU Frosty set and stamped it in Versamark and then heat embossed him in silver.  Then once he was cooled, I embellished with Burgundy Stickles.  I created 10 of these in a half an hour, I could have probably done more but I was watching a Christmas movie on Lifetime.

The second card was made with some PP and cardstock, a piece of ribbon with a simple knot and the Merry Christmas stamp from my brand new SU Cute and Curly set.  First I laid down the PP and cardstock, then I stamped the image and then used the SU Curly punch to punch out the image.  A couple of pop dots, some more Burgundy Stickles and boom you are done.  If I was in a super hurry I wouldn't do the Stickles on this card.  It would still look simple and elegant.  This card could even be made using non traditional holiday colors.

I hope you enjoy!

Joy to the World Christmas Card

Ok so I promised a second Christmas card.  So here it is.  I used Impression Obsession's Peace on Earth set.  I really like the stamp set, but must say I was disappointed with the set itself because no matter what I did it would not stamp a decent image with Stazon or another archival ink I had here at home.  Although this problem made it hard to color the image as a result, it didn't turn out all that  bad.  I used my Prismas to color it in but couldn't blend the pencils as well as I would have liked since the Gamsol made the ink run.  I found the only ink I could use on the mouse stamp with any satifaction was CTMH's basic black.

  Here is the recipe

• Very Vanilla
• Always Artichoke
• Bravo Burgundy
• Melissa Francis "Holly"
• CTMH Basic Black Ink
• SU Always Artichoke Ink

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I really do love this little guy and I love that the ornament is a globe of the world. I stamped a bit of a christmas tree with the pine needles from SU Pines set.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!  Check back on Monday for a wonderful Christmas present to make in these hard economic times.

Enjoy!

Wishing You A Sweet Holiday Christmas Card

Every year I go thru the agony of trying to figure out what in the world to make for a Christmas/Holiday Card.  Not everyone I know is Christian and PC Girl that I am, some years I make two seperate cards, some years I make one for everything.  Now this year I am making two cards but not because I am being a PC Girl, but rather because I just got a really cute new stamp in.  Enough about that...come back next week to see it.

This year I was inspired for my first card by a Food Network Show that featured gingerbread houses and a stamp set I got a month or so ago from Martha Stewart's line.  The stamp set has gingerbread men, round candies and gum drops (and more).  I cut the house itself out from a pattern I made at work on Monday (boss is in Orlando, shhhh don't tell him LOL).  I stamped and cut the gingerbread men and the candies, and then I used Liquid Applique that I got from CTMH and heated it to create the snow (ahem icing) on the roof.  I also used LA for the snow under the gingerbread me as well as for their icing.  I used Candycane Stickles for their eyes and buttons.  I also used Stickles on the candies (stardust and diamond)

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  I liked it but it just didn't look icing enough for me, so back to Mike's I went on the hunt for something a little different.  I did find a dimentional paint in the paint section that worked, but stupid me used the whole bottle and then threw it out before I remembered   to write down the name.  So my apologies but I am not about to go rummaging around in the dumpster at the bottom of the street where all 144 of us townhouse dwellers put our garbage. (Although it would have made for a hysterical scrap page).  I added some course Martha Stewart glitter to the icing to look like course sugar crystals.  These cards are for my immediate and extended family.  I hope they like them.

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On another note, today I was reading a blogging thread on SCS that just burned my cookies (no pun intended based on my card) about a blogger who stole an original banner from another blogger, cropped the original bloggers name off the bottom and then called the banner her own!  Even put a copyright on it.  I just don't understand people.  Several SCS sistahs went to the culprits blog and posted that she should do the right thing.  And you know what?  Not a word from the blogger.  The original creator of the banner has asked her repeatedly to take down the banner since September.  I just don't think this is right.  On top of that, its a SU demo who is the culprit and the blog is her SU blog.  I just don't think that this whole mess is becoming of a SU Demo, and thankfully I know that most demos are not like this one person.

All images, banners, designs (unless otherwise noted) and the name ScrappinGalz are copyrighted. The original artist (paid) for my banner is GeekGirl on SCS.  If you like her work, please contact her and she will create a banner for you.  If you love my stuff and want to case for your own pleasure, please do, but please do not use the designs for competitions/publications/for sale and call them your own.  I try to always give credit where credit is due and hope that all my wonderful friends and readers give the same courtesy.

Thanks so much for being such wonderful readers! 

Enjoy!

Christmas Card and Cricut Truffle Box

Note:  You can check out my other Cricut Box on my November 13, 2008 post

I created this card with one of the images I stamped while out at Island Stampers place.  On the island I stamped the image in Always Artichoke and added berrys with Stickles Candy Cane.  The second layer is a very cool leather cardstock I picked up at Scrapbook Nook in Bellowes Falls, VT and the other layer is cranberry crisp.

I created the matching square box with the Cricut Cartridge Bags Tags Boxes and more.  I set the dial to 6" and cut the box.  Fold on the fold lines and use adhesive to put together.  I added a ribbon and cut out a holly branch to match the card.

I will be using this for my co-workers and putting a truffle in each box.

                             

Enjoy your day!