No Peeking 'til Christmas Gift Card Holders

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today with gift card holders using the new Christmas Pals Peekers die from Part 2 of the new Christmas release.  Gift cards are my go to gift at Christmas for both my immediate and extended family.

These tag holders are super easy to create and can be attached to a present or hung on the tree.  

To start I cut all my characters from white cardstock using the Christmas Peekers die.

I used Copic Markers to do most of the coloring. I did a bit of shading using Distress Oxide ink in Pumice Stone for the Santa Gnome's beard and hat, and Tumbled Glass for the Snowman and the Penguin's hat.  I used Antique Linen and Tea Dye to color the Santa Gnome's skin.

I will show how I created one of the holders.  All holders were made the same way.

I cut a piece of patterned paper 3 x 6 inches and a piece of coordinating cardstock the same size.  I used a permanent tape runner to adhere these together.

I have a corner punch which I used to round the top corners and a slit punch which gave me the hole for the ribbon.  You could also simply cut the top corners at an angle and use a hole punch for the ribbon.

Next I cut the pocket from the same cardstock using the Fancy Pocket Plus die and heat embossed the sentiment. 

Because I was making several, I used my stamping platform and did all my stamping at one time.

I folded and glued my pocket together before putting it on my card.  I placed several acrylic blocks on top and left them for several minutes to give it a good seal.

I then glued it to the tag and added my peeker!

I cut a 16 inch length of coordinating ribbon and tied it at the top.  Now my tag is ready to hang on the tree!

These are very easy to assemble.  I chose to make each of my tags different, but if you use a paper that's appropriate for all of the characters (stripes, plaid, dots, etc) you can get eight tags from one 12 x 12 inch sheet of patterned paper!  My patterns were on paper so I needed the cardstock backing for stability, but if you use 12 x 12 patterned cardstock you can even eliminate one step!

And now for a little extra:  After I had completed these tags I decided that these would be perfect for my tree and immediate family, but I needed a fourth one.  (I'll be making more for the nieces and nephews).  I wanted something different and in looking through my dies...

I found the Gingerbread Baker from the new Christmas Part 1 release is perfect as a peeker for a gift card!

Be sure  to visit the online store where the new Christmas Release (Parts 1, 2, and 3) are on sale for a limited time!

Dies used:

Thanks for visiting today.  I hope you have a fun and creative weekend!

Reindeer with Tree

 Hello Scrapping Cottage Friends,

It is Pam sharing with you on the blog today and I hope you are all doing well!

The design team is continuing to create cards from our new releases.  The dies are from Christmas Part 1 (22 designs), Christmas Part 2 (21 designs), and Christmas Part 3 (12 designs).  All of these fabulous dies are on sale right now in the store for 25% off.  Just click here to check them out.

I am well on my way with my Christmas cards and I only have about 10 more to go!  I am using the Reindeer w/Tree today. This little reindeer needed a Christmas tree so he ventured out into the forest and chopped one down! I think he got a really great tree!

Design Steps:

1.  Using the Reindeer w/Tree die cut out green, brown, tan, red, dark brown, and black card stock

2.  Shade the pieces using a variety of ink colors.  I used TH's and Stampin Up inks with a small applicator.  Glue the pieces together with a fine tip glue

3.  For the background cut out 3 additional pine trees in green and some birch trees in gray using the Birch Tree die.  Glue the birch trees down first then pop up 2 pine trees

4.  Cut a bank of snow out of white glitter card stock and pop it to the bottom of the card

5.  Last glue the blue panel to an A2 white card base.  Pop on the reindeer and the sentiment and your card front is complete

6.  For the inside I used a embossed white panel added a pine tree and the sentiment

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Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I appreciate your time and comments!

Blessings

Pam

Sending Holiday Cheer!

Hello!  This is Sukie and today is my day to feature a card for my design team post.  I'm having a blast showcasing the new Christmas die sets.  All of the die sets are so fun and perfect for those holiday creations!

I cut out the Christmas Camper and all of it's elements along with a few extra trees.  I used Oxide Inks to shade all of my die cuts.  The trees were splattered with white paint.

My card base was created by blending some ink on white cards stock.  I splattered the inked background with some paint for a snowy appearance.  However, I may have gotten a bit carried away a created a blizzard instead of just some snow.

Once I added my card panel, I decided to hand cut a couple of hills to add along the bottom edge.  I inked them slightly for a bit of dimension.

The Christmas Camper was placed at the focal point of my card, slightly tucked into the hills. The monochromatic blues are so pretty for a Christmas card.

The trees were scattered amongst the hills.  I trimmed a couple of the trees so that they would be different heights on the hills.  The sweet snowman was tucked amongst the trees.

The sentiment was stamped on a hand cut flag and was added to my card as the final finishing accent.

Here is the die set that I used on my card, available in the store:

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a spectacular day!

A Sweet Christmas

I hope you had a wonderful weekend!  It's Jeanne today with a sweet card to start the week.  As I mentioned in this post, gingerbread is one of my favorite themes for Christmas.  And the new Christmas releases have some wonderful gingerbread and baking themed dies.

My card today uses two of the dies - Gingerbread Cottage and Sweet as a Christmas Cookie.  For this card I used paper that came from the same paper pack as my previous gingerbread card.

For this card I wanted to see more "sweet" in keeping with the sentiment.

I used white glitter paper for the frosting on my house and also for my gumdrops.  It was easy to color the glitter paper with Copic markers.

I also wanted my peppermints to shine, so after assembling them I covered them in Glossy Accents. I used Distress Oxide ink in Vintage Photo to "brown" the cookies, house and card.

Be sure to visit the online store where the new releases are on sale for a limited time!

Dies used:

 

Thanks for visiting today!  I hope you have a wonderful week!

Ho Ho Ho!

Hi!

It's Anja here with another Christmas card. I used one of the cute gnomes die.

 

For this card I used: 

- Cottage Cutz dies (Gnome w/ Chimney, Pierced Square Set, Build A House Set 2),

- Distress Inks,

- white card base (15x15 cm),

- red card stock for die cuts and background (14,5x14,5 cm),

- white card stock for die cuts and background (11x11 cm),

- green card stock for background (10x10 cm),

- sentiment stamp,

- black pigment ink,

- acrylic block,

- paper trimmer,

- paper glue. 

First I cut and colored the gnome in the chimney. This time I used red and white card stock for die cuts.

Next I trimmed the background pieces. I used the biggest die from the Pierced Square Set for the smallest square piece.

Next I stamped the sentiment on a strip of white paper.

And after that I put all the pieces together and my card was done.

That's all from me for today. Have a nice week and see you again next Sunday.

 Anja Z.

 

Cottage Cutz dies I used for this card: