Category Archives: Holiday Cards

Holographic Hearts Valentine’s Day Card

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Holographic Hearts Valentine’s Day Card

(Inside: have a happy day!)

Yesterday, I shared a “cute” Valentine’s Day card. Here is a more “grown-up” design …

Holographic Hearts paper from The Paper Studio was used behind a pierced heart cover die. I offset the white greeting die cut with the black, adhered it to the card front, and this card was complete. (And I have a pile of little white hearts for another project!)

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Teddy Bear Valentine

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Teddy Bear Valentine

(Inside: Happy Valentine’s Day!)

This cute little guy is ready to deliver Valentine’s Day wishes to my kadults (my adult children who are still young at heart)!

The pieces for the bear were cut from The Paper Studio’s Textured Leather, Sand Photo, and Holographic Hearts papers (along with a scrap of black). The balloon die was from the Balloons set (#FBD119) by Paper Smooches. The stitched background is unbranded.

This holographic paper looks quite different depending on how the light hits it:

This was a fun card to make!

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Santa Belly Gift Box

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Santa Belly Gift Box

This cute guy was designed (by Lori Whitlock) as a “belly lantern” (with cut out panels backed with vellum for the belly), but I changed it up a bit with solid panels to make it a gift box.

Santa is 9 inches tall, with a 3 inch sphere (inside) for his belly. The panels that create the round “belly” are attached with tabs (and not glued) so they are easily removed. (As I mentioned, I made this to hold a small gift, but a battery operated tea light would go inside if it were made as a lantern.)

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If all of the panels and circular pieces are removed, it folds flat for storage (or mailing if the recipient would like to reassemble him!).

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I cut all the pieces with my Silhouette, but an svg file is also available for purchase.

There is an assembly tutorial that shows how to create the belly portion of this project. I used the photo to see how the rest of the pieces went together. (There are several designs, but assembling the belly portion is the same for all of them.) Besides the card stock, I used the “Dainty Diamonds” embossing folder from Stampin’ Up to add texture to his belly, and I created the belt and fur on the embossed panel myself as these were not included in the file.

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Lots of Dots Christmas Tree

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Lots of Dots Christmas Tree

(inside: Wishing You A Very Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year)

 

This card is kind of “a blast from the past” in that I had used this tree idea for a tag project back in 2014. At that time, I thought I’d create a pile of these trees and make them into more “mail friendly” cards. I got as far as stamping all the circles and attaching the gems on the triangles, and then I misplaced/forgot about them. After searching high and low, I found them last year, (misplaced them again, eventually found them!) and finally finished the cards. Why am I telling you this? Because, with all the the time that passed, I forgot/didn’t realize I had used an off-white card stock for the trees until AFTER I hand scored and stamped all the background panels and card bases on white and began to assemble all the cards! Sigh…

I used one of the polka dotted circle stamps from the Gina K Designs “Fabulous Holiday Fillers” stamp set (retired) and Gina K Christmas Pine ink to create the circles on the triangle panel.  I colored self-sticking, clear rhinestones with Copic marker R89 and adhered them in the spaces between the stamped circles. The layered star and trunk were cut with punches. The embossed/debossed lines on the background panel were added with my Scor board. The greeting is from the Patterned Pines stamp set from Stampin’ Up (retired), and the inside sentiment is from a Hero Arts set (CL359). Gina K Cherry Red and Christmas pine card stock was used along with Recollections Dove White (I think?) and white.

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