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Santa’s Sleigh

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I’m back with my last holiday card from the Memory Box “Joyful Season” release.

I started with a red card base and die cut the largest Fan Stitch Scalloped Frames from cream cardstock, adding it to the card base. I assembled the sleigh using the Festive Sleigh dies with papers from the Memory Box Blush paper pad, the Delicate Pastel Glitter pad, and gold metallic paper from my stash. Next, using scraps, I die cut and assembled a variety of presents and bows from the Plentiful Presents dies. I die cut many more presents than I needed, and you’ll be seeing them pop up in the future.

I arranged the gifts in and behind the sleigh on my desk. Once I had an arrangement I liked, I used I used a piece of Press ‘N Seal to pick up the arrangement. I turned it over and used some tape to hold all the pieces together before gluing and adding the gifts to the card panel. The sentiment was die cut from gold metallic cardstock with the Merry Christmas Marker Script dies. I cut the shadow from red cardstock and carefully added the letters. I wanted some gold pearl accents, so I used two paper punches and created tiny gold circles. I added Nuvo Crystal Glaze to the tops creating 3D “gems.”

This is a second entry to the Christmas Kickstart Challenge, I still have some Christmas cards I haven’t shared since I wanted to be sure they were received before I posted them, so maybe I’ll get them up before the New Year.

Brilliant Poinsettias

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The holidays are upon us, and the new Memory Box blog hasn’t gone up yet, so I’m posting here and on Instagram. The Spring Release is already here, so I have one more holiday card, and then I’ll move to the new products.

These Memory Box dies couldn’t be more perfectly named. I diecut them from red cardstock in the Memory Box Blush paper pack, adding leaves from the Greenery pack and gold metallic centers. I added some ink blending to the centers of the flowers and to the base of the leaves for some dimension.

On a black background I adhered two circles die cut from Basic Circles – one from cream cardstock and the next largest from metallic gold, and then added them to a cream card base. Once the poinsettias were assembled, I added them to the edge of the circles, along with one of my fave Memory Box Black Tab Greetings from the Holiday Wishes set.

I’m sending this off to The Flower Challenge where they’re looking for Christmas flowers. Sadly, this is the last of their challenges, and I’m hoping to be back with another card before they close their doors. The challenge will definitely be missed!

It’s also headed to the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown where the challenge is to pick a previous thems challenge (September’s was Poinsettias) and to Christmas Kickstart: Any Christmas Card.

It’s getting down to the wire. Most of the essentials are taken care of, but I still hope to get some gift card holders made, but I’ll be back soon with another holiday card for Memory Box.

Lighting the Way

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One of my favorite dies from the Memory Box Joyful Season release is the Antique Lantern die. This is the last of the cards I created for the Memory Box blog but am posting on Instagram while we wait for the Memory Box Blog to go live.

I found some bronze metallic cardstock in my “scraps box” and used it to create the lantern as well as the frame I die cut with the Heritage Rectangle Frames. I ink blended on white cardstock the interior of the lantern as well as the candle, and added the frame and the lantern to a light gray card base with dimensional tape.

With the dimensional tape, I was able to arrange some evergreen boughs from the Pine Needles and Cones die and a poinsettia from Blooming Poinsettias around the lantern. The sentiment was die cut from Warm Wishes Stylish Script. I added some red ink blending to the bottoms of the letters for an ombre look which you see IRL, but sadly doesn’t show in real life. 

I hope your weekend is going well. Thanks for stopping by.

Two Cards for Memory Box

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At the beginning of August, I was invited to be on the Design Team for the Memory Box Company. It was quite an honor, and I accepted. But by mid-August Typepad had announced it was closing its doors and both Memory Box and I had to find new homes for our blog. 

I found the experience very stressful, but moving my blog to a new platform was nothing compared to a company that hosted three blogs on Typepad. Since all their posts involved photos and links to products, you can imagine that the transfer of the data was much more complicated. 

Before it closed down, I had published one card on their blog, but by the time I was comfortable blogging on WordPress I had forgotten all about the Memory Box card. I had two more posts scheduled for Memory Box, but those cards will go up once their new blog is live. In the meantime, here are two cards I’ve created for them. The first is the one that was published on their blog in early September, and the second is one I posted on Instagram yesterday. I would have had several cards posted by now so I’m posting a couple of them on Instagram while we wait for the new Memory Box blog. 

The first card is a shaker card, and I used the Tall Evergreen Trees die from the new Joyful Season release, a basic set of beautiful frames, Heritage Rectangle Frames, Basic Circle Dies, and the Snow Flurries Stencil.

I applied Moonstone Nuvo Glitter paste through the stencil to create a snowy background on dark blue cardstock, and added a silver moon created with one of the Basic Circle Dies. Then I die cut three trees using the Greenery Paper Pack by Memory Box, adding two of them directly on the background, and the middle tree with dimensional tape. 

The frame was die cut from silver metallic cardstock using the two largest Heritage Rectangle dies. I added a piece of acetate to the back and then two layers of dimensional tape to create the shaker window. From my stash, I added some pretty white snowflake and clear sequins to create the snowy shaker. 

The second card is a very CAS card, so much simpler to assemble. The ornament is from the Decorative Ornaments dies. There is one basic die and three lovely decorative dies to overlay on it. I opted to leave it plain this time, and cut it from red metallic cardstock. I add the ornament hanger in gold and the sentiment from the Peace, Love and Joy Stylish Sentiments, die cut from green metallic paper. 

The ornament was added to two of the beautiful Fan Stitched Scalloped Frames die cut from cream cardstock that I layered with dimensional tape. I added some pine branches from Pineneedles and Cones and some berries from the Berry Splash dies. For a bit of sparkle, I added some Rock Candy Glitter to the pine branches.

I have another card to post this week on Instagram, so will be back here again soon.