Christmas Wishes - 10 cards from one kit, so far

These cards are from the Spellbinders' card kit of the month for November 2019, "Christmas Wishes".  I bought this kit on sale, but truth to be told I mainly got it for the die.  It's the only way to get them, and I've been wanting the little poinsettia die since I saw it last fall. The card above also used Spellbinders' scalloped circle dies and Gina Marie Designs' greenery sprigs dies.

Yes, this card features the dies from the set, the poinsettias that I had to have. The ornament dies are nice, too.

The above card is on a forest green background that has been embossed with a folder from Fun Stamper's Journey, of pine sprigs.

The "Merry Christmas" die is from Kat Scrappiness. The center bit of the "M" always sticks in the die and I've about a 50% chance of getting it out without ripping it or distorting it. Yay me.

This last card features a new frame die I got from Spellbinders, Candlewicking.  It's another tricky one that only works if  I pass it through the Big Shot multiple times in different configurations.  It does't show in the photograph, but there are circles embossed in the center of each little diamond shape. These require their own pass through the machine with the tan embossing mats. 

I have loads of products left in this kit so there will be more cards coming from it. 

Working in the archives

Just kidding, I only mean that I'm working with stuff so old that it could be in the archives.

In this case, I'm pretty sure I got the paper pad at Tuesday Morning in 2014 or earlier.  The front cover is gone, so I cannot say what brand or pad it is. I have been hording the sheet with the map on it.  The map is most of the east coast of the US but I'm only interested in Florida. The yellow background is from the same set.

I used a Mama Elephant die set called "Index Card" for the geotag, and Spellbinders "Favorite Fonts" for the sentiment. It is from the December 2019 Small Die of the Month Club.  Fun fact: I've subscribed to the Small Die of the Month Club for several months and have only used one of the dies before this. That was the snowflake die from November. The rectangles are from a set from Kat Scrappiness.

The card base/envelope set is navy blue, from a big box I got for Christmas in 2017 or 2016. It's from Paper Studio, so someone must have visited Hobby Lobby that year.

Say Freeze Craft Smart paper pad

Just before Christmas I took one last trip to Michael's and bought several 12 x 12 paper pads. I know I shouldn't have, but the images on "Say Freeze" really called to me so I did it.  I already had the 6 x 6 version of the same paper, I just had to have the bigger one, too.

The poinsettias are from the smaller paper pad, and the outside sentiment is from Queen & Co's Special Delivery kit. The inside sentiment is from Avery Elle's "Comfort & Joy" sentiment set.  The die cut poinsettia on the front is a Sizzix die that came with a pillow box die. The inside of the flowers are embellished with copper colored Nuvo drops.

Here's the real reason I needed the larger paper pad.  There is this wonderful image of snowmen driving a red pickup truck.  It's larger, covering the front of these two 5 x 6.5" cards.  The "Merry Christmas" die is from Kat Scrappiness, cut once from gold card stock and once from cream card stock, and layered together, a little offset.

On the inside of the card I layered another piece of patterned paper and the same sentiment as above from Avery Elle. The inside sentiment is on a panel cut with a scalloped die from Gina Marie Designs.

This second truck card features the "Fa La La" die and shadow from Simon Says Stamp.  The little sentiment, "Make it jolly, so jolly" is silver embossed from a sentiment set from Scrapbook.com called "Make it Jolly".

The inside sentiment is from an old Hero Arts set CL359 from 2012.  It's embossed in silver, with a couple of snowflake stamps that I can't immediately identify. 

So, I don't need anymore Christmas cards, but I've decided not to stop making them because, I don't want to stop.

Eclipsing the card

My first eclipse card, featuring the blobs of watercolor over a white heat embossed background.  I used the Condensed Uppercase alphabet dies from Kat Scrappiness. I built the letters up with moss green card stock, and white heat embossed the tiny "you" that I added under the word "THANK".

I wanted to say "THANKS", but that last letter just wouldn't fit. You can see the top of the "S" die just above the card. I am attempting to build up my supply of cards without critters, so this is a start.