A 3D Christmas Tree Tag

Happy Christmas Eve! I'm drinking some eggnog and eating my favorite Danish butter cookies. I wish it was snowing outside, but it's sunny and cold here in Northern New Mexico.

Here's a tag I actually made over a year ago when I was visiting Ericka last year. She had this great Martha Stewart tree paper punch. I punched out 3 trees from Basic Grey paper and scored the trees in half before adhering them to each other. I wish I more time this fall to make more tags like this. I added some ribbon and some more Basic Grey paper to a die cut tag.

I gave this tag to our dentist and her staff with a large jar of mixed nuts and cranberries I bought at Target; easy and simple!

Thanks for stopping by! I'm still not done wrapping gifts, so I better get busy.

Thank You

I had some time today to finish up several cards. I've had this BasicGrey Marrakech paper sewn to this card base for over a month! This card base even went to New Mexico on vacation with me.

I couldn't settle on a design for the card. Well, this week I've been playing with some new welded words I downloaded from QuicKutz.

Every time I use my QuicKutz Silhouette I'm so thankful to Hero Arts & QuicKutz for the prize. I still can't believe I won the machine.

My Sakura Quickie Glue pen sure came in handy for gluing down this die cut. Do you have this pen? If not, you should get it. I threaded the buttons with thin strips of black cardstock.

Thanks for looking and have a good one!

Card Ingredients Stamps: none Paper: Cool Caribbean (SU! retired), Basic Black, Marrakech 6x6 paper pad (BasicGrey) Ink: none Tools: QuicKutz Silhouette, sewing machine, finger nails to rough up edges Other: buttons (Making Memories - Chloe's Closet collection), Sakura glue pen

Miracle of Christmas

Just a quick post before the deadline passes in about 5 minutes! This card is for the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #8. The movie this week was Miracle on 34th Street. I've seen the original and the latest version of this movie. I loved it when I was a kid and I still love the movie.

I used some old stamps for this card. The "miracle" sentiment is from one of my first Stampin' Up sets. It's in the 1998-1999 catalog. I didn't know the name of the stamp set because I didn't put the label on the case...duh! I had to look at the old catalog...it's Miracle of Christmas. I thought I had more Santa stamps. I only have 2...what? I wanted the sentiment to have the word "miracle" and I wanted Santa on the card.

I paper pieced Santa's suit and hat...that was a little hard! I don't think I've paper pieced something so small. I messed up the embossing of the sentiment, so I had to add the layer on top of "Christmas" to cover up my boo-boo.

Thanks for looking!

Card Ingredients
Stamps: Miracle of Christmas, Little Hellos (both SU retired)
Paper: white (JudiKins), BasicGrey Mistletoe & Pear Paper Pad
Ink: VersaMark, Basic Black
Punches: oval, word window, scallop edge
Other: Oval Mattboard (Stampendous), Crayola colored pencils, BasicGrey ribbon, brads (Bazzill), Stickles, foam tape, black embossing powder