It's beginning to look...

Like CHRISTMAS!

I've been working on Christmas cards for this year. Here's just a few I created this week. Some were inspired by Pinterest. Others are from my own imagination.

This 1st card was created for a challenge for a group I belong to on FaceBook. We could only use blue and white. Nailed it!

Echo Park Paper Co. - Hello Winter Collection of paper and stickers.

#2 was inspired by something I saw on Pinterest. The teardrops are actually the wings from Stampin' Up! Bird Builder Punch.

#3 Inspired once again by Pinterest.

#4 Was created using the dies from Stampin' Up! Santa's Sleigh and the stamps from Santa's Sleigh. This card opens to the full width of 8 1/2 ".

the middle is open to display a dangling ornament. 

#5 is my own design. Stampin' Up! Stamps Beautiful Season and Dina Wakley Scribbly Birds for the sentiment on cover.

Inside sentiment is from More Merry Messages from Stampin' Up!

#6 Another of my own designs. Decorative vellum is from the Stampin' Up! Holiday catty.

The poinsettia is a sticker.

Sentiment inside from SU More Merry Messages.

#7 Inspired by something I saw from Echo Park Paper Co.

Dies are from Poinsettia & Pine by Jolie from Essentials by Ellen.

Inside sentiment is from SU Versatile Christmas. Lace punch on decorative paper is from Martha Stewart.

TFL

If you have any questions, ever, about any of my cards. Feel Free to leave your questions in the comments. I will get back to you ASAP.

T%dles Peeps!

Betty J Schaub

From Punch to Emboss

Hi there!

Since I've been down with my back my creative wheels have been spinning but not much is happening. So tonight I decided to make something that I could sit anywhere and create as long as I have cs, a punch and my Big Shot I can do it!!!

First I chose the punch I wanted to use along with the cs. Since I was in the mind of a sympathy card I chose Crumb Cake. I cut one piece of 8.5x11 inch cs. down to 4.125x11 inches. With the other half of my cs I cut a piece at 3.75x5 inches. 

The smaller piece is what I used as my focal point. Out of scrap cs (color doesn't matter as you will not be able to see it when the card is completed) I began with punching 2 of the birds and 2 of the birds wings.

Then I punched 6 of the branches.

I arranged the pieces on the cs in a design that was pleasing to the eye. Then I adhered them down with my snail adhesives. Then I flipped up the first tab on my platform, placed that piece of cs face (punched pieces ) down in my Big Shot with a rubber matte on top then both of my plates. I ran it through the machine a few times. When I removed it from the machine I had a perfectly embossed bird sitting on my branches.

You can see the finished project below. To make my card blank I simply slipped my cs into my Wood EF and ran it through my machine. I attached the smaller focal piece to my blank with dimensional adhesives, only after stamping my sentiment in Early Espresso.

TFL
T%dles Peeps!
Betty J Schaub