A Christmas Candle

Welcome to Glenda's Cards!

With the holidays fast approaching, my thoughts have turned to making Christmas cards. This card is 5" x 6 1/2" cream card stock. The pretty patterned papers are K&Company Glad Tidings paper pad. These papers are so pretty that I really did not want to cut it, but I am pleased with the results.

Cricut Cartridges:

Joys of the Season - Candle image is cut 3.25" high. It is embossed with the Cuttlebug Textile folder and pop dotted on the burlap. The pine cone is cut 2" wide.

Cindy Loo - Peace is cut 2" wide.

Winter Wonderland - Merry Christmas is cut 5.5" wide. This is used inside the card.

I added a strip of lace burlap and some pearls to the card. Edges of paper are slightly frayed.

Inside of card.

Challenges:

Christmas Card Challenges - #49 - Anything Goes

FCCB - Ch. 264 Anything Goes

The Sisterhood of Crafters - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

The Shabby Tea Room - Ch. 263 Thankful. This photo inspired me to make a Christmas card. I am thankful for the upcoming celebrations and the true meaning of Christmas.

Hope you enjoy this card! Thanks for your visits and comments!

Christmas Cardinal - Acrylic Embossing

Welcome to Glenda's Cards!

Today I am sharing a Christmas card that was made for a special friend! Now that she has received the card, I am able to make the post. I am showcasing features similar to a previous card that I posted last year here. 

The card is 5" x 6 1/2" and is inspired by the pretty sketch at Card Patterns. Designer paper is Martha Stewart Holidays that was purchased last Christmas.

Cricut Cartridges:

Winter Woodland - Page 59 Bird is cut 2 1/2". Red glitter paper is also from the Martha Stewart Holidays pack.

Joys of the Season -  Page 69 Holly and Berries

Cuttlebug:

The embossed acrylic background is a piece of Cricut cartridge packaging. It is embossed with the Cuttlebug Birds and Swirls folder.

Other supplies include Christmas Red Stickles on the berries and Martha Stewart punch. Inking is Dew Drop Versa Magic Gingerbread. Christmas sentiment is Holiday Time Crystal Sticker. I hand cut a piece of the red glitter paper to run through the openings.

Challenges:

Card Patterns - Sketch 146

Little Scrap Pieces - Winter - Holiday

Simply Create Too - Ch 2 Embossing

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Christmas

Passionately Artistic - Linking Party
Robin's Creative Cottage - Link Up Party

Hope you enjoy my card!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Fantabulous Cricut Ch. 90 Rolling in Ribbon

Welcome to Glenda's Cards! Thanks for stopping by today!

It is time for another fun challenge at Fantabulous Cricut! This week we are Rolling in Ribbon! We are asked to use ribbon somewhere on the project plus the Cricut cut.

Cricut Cartridges:

Joys of the Season -- The pretty double-sided paper is from K&Company Yuletide (last years's paper pad). I chose the Ribbon Frame card feature on page 65 and using Cricut Craft Room the paper was cut at 5 1/2" using the relative feature. The cut size folds to be a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card.

The ribbon frame was cut in green and the layer image was cut in red at 3" to fit the front cutout of the card. I hand cut the beige oval to fit the opening and it was embossed with Cuttlebug Allergo folder. The card opening is backed with a piece of vellum.

Page 77- Peace was cut at .75" using the main image from a gold shimmer paper and the shadow from red paper.

Christmas/Noel - Candle and candle holder. Oops, I failed to record the size! Candle is pop-dotted on the embossed mat

I made the bow from The Paper Studio Glitter Velvet Red Ribbon. It is pop-dotted on the card. Christmas Red Stickles was used for the holly berries.

Hope your enjoy my card and are inspired to join our challenge this week. Be sure to visit Fantabulous Cricut to see all the great projects by the design team. Remember you must include ribbon and a Cricut cut on your project. We look forward to seeing your pretty projects!

Challenges:

Little Scrap Pieces - Winter Holiday

Cooking with Cricut - Ch. 63 Sounds of the Season

Christmas Ornament using Joys of the Season Candy

Hope everyone is having a great weekend. I wanted to participate in the new challenge blog Exploring Cricut. For this week's challenge they are using the Cricut Celebrations cartridge and the candy image on page 111. It is mentioned that a similar image is on Christmas Cheer. I was beginning to think that I could not play along but I remembered Joys of the Season has a candy image too. I hope it is ok to use a different cartridge than the ones specified. I am sharing my project with you!
I am exploring the ornament feature in Joys of the Season. I think the different ornaments would make cute little stocking stuffers or gifts for those special teachers and co-workers.
Page 47 - Candy image. I used the ornament feature on shift and cut the pink paper at 3.25". All the cuts are same size.
Page 79 - Ornament feature and regular key, I cut a piece of vellum to show behind the pink paper and a piece of white cardstock to layer behind the vellum. I used the white cardstock because the candy paper is double sided and it would have been seen through the vellum.
Using the Ornament feature with the shift key, I cut the pretty candy patterned paper.
Using the regular main image, I cut the ornament again in the candy pattened paper for the backside.
Stamp on back is Christmas Crafts from Michael's. Added lots of inking and a green braid for a hanger.

Hope you enjoy! Here is a link to a previous card that I used the candy cut on. Hopefully it will inspire you to try the cute candy cut!

Brrrr!

How about a little Christmas in July! With our recent extremely high temperatures, I thought it would be "cool" to make a Christmas card. After visiting some challenge blogs, I chose some themes to incorporate so I can participate in the challenges.
My card is 5 x 6 1/2 inches from white basic cardstock. I cut a 1" x 6 1/2 piece of white Colorbok for the edge of the card. My papers are all from my scrap stash. I used the Martha Stewart Aspen Snowflake edge punch on the edge of the red designer paper and layered it on the 1' x 6 1/2". Then it was glued to the front of the card.
I am so excited how the Cricut cuts turned out on this card. Not only did I use the Cricut to cut the images, but I also used Cricut Colors ink markers to draw the gloves and word Brrrr!. I will admit that I used my older Expression for the color markers. There is a lot about the Expression 2 that I have not tried yet!
Using a white DMC Memory Thread, the gloves are connected to the Anna Griffin decorative brad to appear as if they are hanging. If you are not familar with DMC Color Infusion Memory Thread, it is a fiber wrapped wire that is be used on sewing projects. It is great in our card making too. I found the Memory Thread at Michael's on the aisle with the regular DMC thread for embroidery/cross-stitch.
Lots of inking! Pop dots- 1/16" on the mat and 1/8" on the gloves!
I think the card turned out pretty cool!
Cricut Cartridges:
Joys of the Season - Mittens on page 51 cut 1 3/4"
Winter Frolic - Sentiment "Brrr!" on 33 cut 1 3/4- Phrase and shadow features

Challenges:
Sassy Lil' Card Sketch - Sketch (Maybe I did not get too carried away with the sketch.)
Cooking With Cricut - Cricut markers or a sun if you do not have markers.
BBTB - Joy of the Season Gloves
Craft Us Crazy - Christmas in July
Christmas Card Challenges - Faith/Christmas in July
2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Christmas in July
If The Shoe Fits - Ruby
Hope you enjoy!

Red and Purple!

Happy Easter!

I am posting a card that was made for a Red Hat Lady. Hope you are not tired of seeing red and purple!!

The 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch card is cut from purple Recollection paper.

Cricut Cartridges:

Lacy Labels - Red circle mat. This is the sixth key on Row 4 and is cut at 3 1/4 inches. It is placed on the card so that a portion at the top and right side was trimmed to follow the sketch.

Joys of the Season - Gift on page 56 is cut at 2 1/2 inches. The embossed paper is from K&Company Red Hat Society.

White mat and purple gingham strip were hand cut.

Cuttlebug Folders:

Happy Birthday - Red mat

Swiss Dots - White mat

Martha Stewart - Daisy Dots Edge Punch and inking

Paper Studio - Red rhinestone

Challenge:

Celebrate the Occasion - #10 Birthday must follow the sketch

Hope you enjoy this card!

Jitterbuggin' Yummy Treats

Hi everyone and Welcome to my new followers! This is my card for Jitterbuggin' Sketch 27 - Yummy Christmas Treats! Sherri asked us to add our favorite Christmas treat to the sketch and add a little rickrack.

With limited Cricut cuts of food/sweets, I decided to go with the peppermint cut from Joys of the Season, cut at 2 1/4 inches. The pink and green labels are cut at 3 inches and the white label is cut at 3 1/4 inches using the Cricut Lite Cartridge Lacy Labels. I love this paper and I must be making a peppermint series since this is my third card with some of the same paper! lol If you have seen some of my work on Cricut messageboard, you may have seen the two previous cards. I do plan to post them later on my blog. Ok, back to my card, the green paper with the printed words was run through my Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots folder. The labels are pop-dotted for more dimension.To add more candy, I use a Martha Stewart Candy punch and added the strip to the bottom of card. Hope you can see my tiny white rickrack----the only piece I could find in my treasure boxes! Yes! I love peppermint at Christmas and throughout the entire year!!

Hope you enjoy! Thanks for your comments!

Gifts for You

After we have enjoyed our Thanksgiving celebrations, many of us are busy with decorating, shopping and wrapping Christmas gifts. Sherri at Jitterbuggin' chose "Gifts Galore" as the theme for this challenge. We could use the simple sketch or not, but make a card with a gift theme, add bling, add a bow, and a cricut cut.

For my card, I am using pretty double-sided paper from K&Company Yuletide. I chose the present card feature on page 62 from Cricut Wild Card cartridge and cut it at 5 1/2 inches. Using the icon feature, I cut an inside liner for the card. The green dot paper ribbon is also on the icon feature. The poinsettia card is pop-dotted on the main card and will open up to reveal a secret message.
The tag is cut from Joys of the Season at 2 1/2 inches and lined with red paper for the poinsettia. A plain tag is available on Wild Card page 62, but I wanted to add a poinsettia to the tag. Sentiment "for you" is cut from Wild Card page 62 at 6 1/4 inches. Using a glimmer ribbon, I tied the tag to the present and made a bow. Gold Stickles was applied to centers of the poinsettias for a little more bling. Also added Stickles to the brad on the paper poinsettia flower--flower from Making Memories. Lots of inking!

The recipient of this will be surprised to receive two cards in one!

Challenges:
Jitterbuggin' -- Gifts Galore
Fantabulous Cricut - #38 Ribbon
Paper Cutz Challenge - #69 Anything Goes

Hope you enjoy! Thanks for dropping by! I appreciate and love reading your comments!
Glenda

Birthday Presents

Using another one of Carolyn's sketches on RAQ'S Card Challenge Cricut Messageboard this week, I made a birthday card.

Also trying to use the colors for the Ad Color Challenge which are  purple, orange, lime, and white. I had to throw in some pink!!

White cardstock card  is 5 X 6 1/2 inches.

Cricut cartridges:

Stretch Your Imagination - Present -Regular cut and layer at 1 1/2 inches; Shift for the taller present cut at 2 3/4 inches.

Joys of the Season - Gift cut 2 inches

Cuttlebug: Happy Birthday and With Love (the floral border)

Martha Stewart: Rotary cutter-scallop paper, inks

Paper: American Girl, Colorbok-white, Colorbok Pearlescent-pink and purple

Enjoy! Thanks for visiting today!

Christmas Card with Cuttlebug Acrylic Mat

Sharing a recent Christmas card using an embossed acrylic background. This was posted on the Cricut Messageboard.

Using Birds and Swirls Cuttlebug folder, I embossed a piece of acrylic (packaging material from a Cuttlebug folder) for the main background mat on this card. Swiss dots used on red mat.

Cricut cartridges:
Winter Woodland - Red bird which I cut several times and layered for chipboard effect.
Joys of the Season --Holly

Cuttlebug Folders - Birds and Swirls, Swiss Dots
Martha Stewart-  punch for the extra leaves. Sentiment from MS Christmas pack of embellishments, ink
Paper - Paper Studio
Stickles

I really like the look of the CB mat. Hope you enjoy!

Joys of the Season cup / Miss you

This card was made using one of the sketches from RAQ's Challenge 8/18-8/25. All papers used were scraps. Paper--K&Company.

I enjoyed making this card and entered it in several challenges.

Carts: Joys of the Season - cup -for BBTB2 challenge.  Cup cut 2 inches reg and shadow..steam cut 1 1/2 inch
Sentimentals - Miss you -- MY Sherri Crafts challenge.  "Miss you" cut 3/4 inch.
PaperCutzChallenge--Anything Goes

MS Doily lace trim punch. Martha Stewart ink. Lace, ribbon, embellishments are from my stash.

Thanks for visiting today! I appreciate your comments!

Happy Birthday to You! - Sketch 11 Jitterbuggin'

Another card that was made for Jitterbuggin'. This was Challenge Sketch 11- Happy Birthday to You!

Challenge to follow sketch, make it a children's birthday card,  include something purple and use the cricut.
Carts used:
Plantin Schoolbook - circles and number 8,
Joy Of The Season - Package
Stretch Your Imagination- Balloon
Cuttlebug folders - Happy Birthday and Birthday 4/set