Easy and Striking Christmas Cards in July!!

Hello Crafty Friends!! 

Larissa here today with a couple Easy and Striking Christmas Cards in July!! 

I don't know about you, but as soon as July roles around I start thinking ahead to the Holiday Cards I'll need to create!! I LOVE being able to make them as the Fall months pass, rather than having to crash create them once December is here!! So with that in mind today I'm creating 2 Christmas Cards!! I have Family and Friends with different tastes and I try to keep that in mind as well as I'm making my Holiday Cards for them!! 

Today, were going to create one card with a Vintage Holiday Color Scheme and the other Card we'll create will be more of a Modern Color Scheme!! Both Cards are BEAUTIFUL, but they'll appeal to different recipients!! 

I started by Stamping and Embossing the Music Stamp from the Love Notes Stamp Set along the Side of my Cardbase!! Then I Die Cutting the Snowflake Images from both the Flurry Fir-Die Set and the Bring on the Snowflakes Fri-Die Set from both Glitter Cardstock and Vellum!! 

I Layered them together to create some very BEAUTIFUL Snowflakes!! For the Centers I used some Pearl Buttons and some Cupped Buttons and added some Pretty Pink Posh Silver Jewels to the center of the Buttons and few scattered around for some added Sparkle!! Anything you wanted to add here would be BEAUTIFUL!! 

For a Punch of interest I decided to use some Christmas Text Patterned Paper and Cut it to fit 3/4 of my Cardbase!! I Stamped and Embossed the Sentiments!! One is from the Lovely Blessings and the other one is from the Mistletoe & Holly Stamp Set!! I Placed the Snowflakes where I wanted them and decided I needed alittle bit of Color to make them POP!! So I added some Distress Ink to make the Snowflakes look like they were Glowing!! I used Evergreen Bough for the Fuchsia Glitter Snowflakes and I mixed Antique Linen and Hickory Smoke for the Gold Glitter Snowflakes!! Then I wanted to add some Snow Falling so I added some Picket Fence Distress Paint Splatters by Flicking it on with a Paint Brush!! Some iCraft 3-D Foam Squares were added to the 3/4 Panel and adhered them to the Love Notes Backgrounds!! Then I adhered the Background Panel onto an A2 Top Folding Cardbase!! 

I LOVE the way these turned out and I think this makes a BEAUTIFUL Holiday Card Design, but it could also be used for a Holiday Birthday Card Design too!! 

THANKS SO MUCH for stopping by today and I hope you have a FABULOUS WEEK!! 

If you create a Paper Pieced Card, I hope you'll share with us on Social Media using the Hashtag #CasFridays as we LOVE to see what you create!! 

         

   

Miracle of Christmas

Only a few more days until Thanksgiving! I am picking up my turkey this morning and doing my fresh goods shopping and then tomorrow the cooking starts! I LOVE to cook for Thanksgiving! I've collected favorite recipes over the years and mixed them in with a few family tradition recipes from my childhood. 3 days of cooking and it's all over in about an hour. Totally worth it! :)

I've also "cooked" up something special for my newsletter subscribers! Make sure you are on my newsletter list by Tuesdayso you'll get the special email that comes out on Wednesday! You can sign up on the blog sidebar or go to our website homepage and scroll down to the bottom. 

Kimberly made this beautiful card featuring colorful snowflakes from Bring On The Snowflakes and a lovely sentiment from Lovely Blessings.

"I stamped the snowflakes from Bring on the Snowflakes around the edge of kraft cardstock using Distress Oxide inks - they really show up nice and vibrant! I added the white heat embossed sentiment from Lovely Blessings and a few snowflake "dots" (from Snowy Sayings) to finish the card."

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Shenanigans: 1 panel, many looks!

Happy Tuesday!

I don't think there is a person on the planet who wouldn't like to receive a b-day card with a sentiment like this one...

Wanna see a whole bunch of  awesome things this sentiment panel can do? Hold on to your socks!!!

Kelly made a dozen of these sentiment panels, and then paired them up with patterned papers and embellishments to create a set of a dozen birthday cards.

The sentiment panel uses Shenanigans, Calm and Gentle, Mon Ami.

She added more awesome sets to this cool panel to vary the look for the type so you'll get to see lots of CAS-ual Fridays goodness in this post! Buckle up peeps, here we go!

Have you seen our Lovely Links Fri-Dies? It is so pretty, lovely really, and one of the fun facts about it is that it cuts out more than a dozen little hearts to use on other projects all in one cut! Isn't that lovely?!

A little striped paper, a little strip of glitter, a lot of look in a simple but super fun card!

You don't always have to put the cute sentiment panel at the bottom, put some fun paper on the card base, add a few fun elements and stick that bad boy at the top!

Ok, now that paper is just darned cute! I love how she handwrote the amazing into the crossword puzzle :)

This one might be my favorite! I love the cute leaves from Acorn Fri-Dies strung onto the Linked Fri-Dies cut. So fun!!

Oh...but I really love this one too! I am a sucker for a pretty ribbon tied onto a card!

There is that Lovely Links Fri-Die again! This time she added darling die cuts from Posies and Friendly Flowers Fri-Dies and stamped them with Pretty Posies and Girlfriend, and then added a glitter paper die cut from Casual Trees Fri-Dies. (Don't tell the other cards, but I think this one might actually be my fav!)

Um, ya...this is super cute too! I love that she took a big ol star from Stars Fri-Dies and stamped it with Twinkle. Cute!!

another cute but simple card using Linked Fri-Dies and a fun pattern paper!

Friendly Flowers on Flurry Fri-Dies? Yes Please!!!!

So as you can see, there are all kinds of Shenanigans you can create for birthday fun using one great sentiment panel and then challenging yourself to use some fun papers that you've been hoarding, oops! I mean saving for the perfect project!

How many birthday cards do you have in your card stash right now? Probably not enough, LOL!

I hope you find some time to get your ink on today :)

October Release Day 4

Welcome back to Day 4 of our Holiday Release!

Are we having fun yet?

If you swooned over yesterday's sneak peeks, 

you'll swoon again when you see what we have for you today.

Today's stamp set will be awesome on it's own but also coordinates with yesterday's

Lovely Snowflake...

and you'll love the Fri-Die set all year long!

Introducing...

Lovely Blessings

Scallop Tag Fri-Dies

Look at the loveliness...

Archana

Archana

Julia

Julia

Jingle

Joanna

Kelly

Kelly again :)

Angie

Angie

Lovely Blessings, 4 x 6 clear photopolymer set of 8   $15.00

Scallop Tag Fri-Dies, set of 2   $20.00

This collection will be available October 3rd!!

The waiting is nearly over but our sneak peeks aren't. 

We still have 1 more great Fri-Die set to show you tomorrow!

I'll give you a hint, it was created by popular request to coordinate with one of last year's favorite Holiday stamp sets!

Be sure to leave us a comment on each of our sneak peek posts. 

1 lucky winner

 will be randomly selected from 1 of these posts to win a 

$25 gift certificate to the store!!

Tomorrow we bring you the last sneak AND we'll RELEASE the goodies!!