Christmas in July #1

I am super determined to get ALL of my Christmas cards done this year.  Last year I got most of them sent out in time but unfortunately not all of them and I feel really bad about that.  Hopefully starting this early with my annual Christmas in July undertaking will help me out.

I was pretty excited to make this card with a new stamp set from Tuesday Morning.  I thought the little snow globe was super cute and perfect for my friends who might not celebrate Christmas but who I want to wish a happy holiday season to anyways.

***I'm just now noticing a very distinct cat hair on the card in the photo...sorry***

I was also pretty stoked that I got to clear out some scrap papers and some scrap twine as well (though I still have a ton of this one in particular so I might rework this card to mass make a few and use it up).

I decided to use a silver marker and add in extra "snow" to the snow globe since I thought it was looking a bit sparse.  After I did so, I couldn't help myself and I added some to the rest of the card as well to jazz it up a bit.

Identifiable Elements:

• Stamps - Merry Days by Crate Paper
• Blue ink- "Night of Navy" by Stampin' Up!
• Silver marker- Metallic Marker by American Crafts

Christmas in July #4

I woke up this morning and found that it's actually overcast out in Arizona today.  With the apocalypse clearly imminent I decided to catch back up on my Christmas in July series and make this cute little card.  

It would be a quick and simple design but unfortunately the letter stickers I decided to use didn't want to stick so I ended up hand gluing each down.  

I'm still considering making a few more though just to be done with the stickers and to knock a few more cards out quickly.

Identifiable elements:

• Snowflake stamps- "Snow is Glistening" by Stampin' Up!
• Green ink- Pear Pizazz by Stampin' Up!
• Grey ink- Smoky Slate by Stampin' Up!
• Green paper- Pear Pizazz by Stampin' Up!
• Alphabet stickers- Recollections

Christmas in July #3

This Christmas in July card I was bound and determined to use some of my massive stash of eyelets.  I have an unnecessarily large collection and yet I never use them.  They're usually annoying for me to line up and get together, but I pushed through and used some for this card.

I really feel like I could've done more with the card style wise but after all the eyelet dealings I had to do I was more exhausted than anything.  I just wanted to be done.  I still like the way it looks but it's definitely not a practical approach if you want a quick and easy Christmas card.

Happy Holidays

I'm still making my way through Paper Pumpkin boxes and so, once again, I decided to pull some pieces from one and make a new card only this time I decided to go with a winter holiday card.  I also took the opportunity to play with glitter again because I love it so much.  I like the way it turned out and surprisingly, all but tow of these pieces were pulled from the same kit in the making of the card.