Merry, Merry!

This is a design I made in my Make the Cut software. Make the Cut is for designing your own files to cut on the eclips. I have ecal software, but I prefer Make the Cut and Inkscape for designing my files. For the card base I used Gumball Green. The Designer Series Paper is from the Festival of Prints stack in the Holiday catalog. Once again I used the Scentsational Season stamp set along with the Holiday Collection Framelits, also found in the Holiday catalog. I had a sliver of a Very Vanilla cut from the Top Note die that I had used on another project, so I used it for the snow on my card front. A little Dazzling Details glitter on the snow and a star die cut from So Saffron, finish out the details. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Blessings!
Barb

Oops! Back to Autumn!

Everyone has been working on Christmas cards and I have been too, but this one I made last month, so thought I would go ahead and post it anyway :). I used More Mustard as my card base, layered with Soft Suede and I used some torn paper bag. Old Olive used for the acorn, More Mustard and Cajun Craze for the leaves. The leaves and the acorn were die cut with the new Autumn Accents Bigz die in the Holiday catalog. The sentiment is from a retired stamp set. Inks used to edge the elements were Garden Green, Old Olive, Cajun Craze, and Soft Suede. Have a great day!!!

Blessings!
Barb

My 'first' card book that I made :). This one uses Old Olive, Gumball Green, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, and More Mustard card stock. The Designer Series Papers are from the Festival of Prints stack, all by Stampin' Up! The Christmas Tree is from the Scentsational Season bundle (Stampin' Up!) which includes the Scentsational Season stamp set and the Holiday Collection Framelits dies. The stars on the left side were punched with the small star punch (retired). The inks I used to edge some of the elements are Cajun Craze, Garden Green, and Soft Suede. The embossing folder I used was Northern Flurry for the snowflakes on the front cover.

I added a pocket to the inside cover that's perfect for a tag or to hold a gift card. Add a gift card in the pocket and fill the inside pages of the book with some chocolate and you have a sweeeet little gift for someone! The sentiment on the inside is from Merry Messages (Stampin' Up!- retired). Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings!

Barb

Thanks Donna!

My good friend Donna sent me a link to a tutorial for making a card book that we had seen on a few different blogs in the UK. I loved the book and wanted to make my own, so I really appreciate the link she sent me! I changed the measurements from metric to our measurements, but followed the rest of her instructions and it was quite easy to put together. This is my second card book that I made. I'll post the first one tomorrow. I know, backwards :).

Back in May, my husband bought me a Sizzix eclips... love, love, love my eclips! This little gingerman and lollipops are cutting files from Designs on Cloud 9. She has the cutest files ever! Of course, I used Stampin' Up! papers, card stock, and inks :). The gingerman is cut from Close to Cocoa (retired- boo hoo hoo!). I used Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Island Indigo, and Pink Pirouette card stock along with Festival of Prints DSP. The edges are inked with Early Espresso and Crumb Cake. The snow is inked with Island Indigo.

 When you open the card it looks like a book inside! How cool is that?! The little peppermints at the corners of the book pages is a Stampin' Up! set and also the sentiment inside the book. I used Stampin' Up's! small Heart punch as well. There is plenty of space inside the pages for treats or a little gift. The inside pages measure the same as an A2 card base- 4.25 x 5.5 inches.

 A side view of the card book. You can see, in this photo, how it looks like the real pages in a book. So nifty :) ! Love it!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!

Blessings!
Barb