A little bit of Christmas

So I came back from a fun holiday and the first thing I heard

was 33 days until Christmas.  Eeeeek, has the time really gone by

that fast this year?  It feels like I just put everything away... 

But... I love this season and I can't wait to start again so here

are 2 cards that I made to share today and hopefully I

can post more this week as I get more done!

I did some really fun embossing with this card

using Stampendous aged gold distress powders.  

Did you know that you can sprinkle the powders on

 the front with no ink and emboss on the back?  

Well you can and you get the really pretty effect of 

melted gold dots like you see below around the edges! 

 It is really cool!

Around the outside edges I used a Versamark pen and

then sprinkled the powder on and heated it to match.

The Spellbinders dies I used are Lacey Circles,

Standard Circles and Fancy Tags Two.. They all

mix so beautifully together and I really love the old

world effect on the paper that it gives my card.  

This was really fun to make!

My second card today is a wallet card that you

can use for a photo or gift card or anything else

you might want to tuck inside to give as a gift.

The papers for this are from Basic Grey Christmas 2011

and I just adore the beautiful pointsettia's so I hand

cut lots of them out and made a pretty cluster on

the front to decorate it.  For the flap I rounded the

underneath piece of cream paper and then put

a matching piece of Beaded Circles that I cut and

embossed from Spellbinders. And to give it

even more texture I ran the front piece of paper in an

"Elegance"embossing folder and inked that up a little too..  

The brad is from My Minds Eye :)

For the inside I used a Spellbinders Edgeabilites die

Classic Decorative Inserts Five and made the pockets.

I cut a few more flowers and added them on the

side and a little bit of gold stickles on the flowers.

This just says Christmas don't you think?  

I hope you like my cards for today and I hope 

you all have a wonderful day and get inspired to

start a few fun projects for yourself.  I am off to

teach 2 more file folders (Christmas and Disney)

this morning and will share those too....  

Happy Card Making :)