Sunday, October 2, 2011

Christmas Cards


I've been meaning to start Christmas cards for a while now. This wet, cold, and dreary weekend was a good time to get everything cut and stamped. Assembly is MUCH quicker with a pile of stuff!

There is my stack of goodies below! I really wanted Victorian for some reason or other and have been inspired by all the vintage ads and goodies I've seen around blog land. I have also been looking for a while for pretty flowers to add to the fronts, but decided to make my own. We got a new coffee pot a while back that takes different coffee filters than our old one, so between having some filters to use up....and not finding what I wanted, I spent most of Friday night cutting. Now, I'm not a big one for cutting too much on my Silhouette. I love it, but I don't use it every day. It did do a great job with this dove!

I used the flower punch to make my flowers. You have to use a really good punch to go through several layers of filters to get a nice smooth flower. This one is by EK Success. I used another little punch for my leaves that is made by Stampin' Up and another punch from the same company to create the little shape I stamped Celebrate the Season on. Stampin' Up punches are great quality and work really well.

I also glimmered up some cheese cloth so I could use it in little bits behind my flower. I really liked it. I can't say I've seen anyone use little bits of it before, but I am sure they have!

And a little bit more about my flower. Basically I punched five or so flowers and layered them up with a brad. Then I twisted them up around the brad and inked the edges with a stamp pad. I was all out of clear glimmermist and since I only wanted a very light pink on the edges, so I decided to make my own. I used some shimmer paint from Close to My Heart and rubbing alcohol. Aside from having a rather strong smell that went away after and I really didn't measure, it worked great! Check out the shimmer below! The weird part about using paint was that my spray bottle didn't seem to clog AND it stuck to the brad!

The other flowers were sprayed with clear, had inked edges, and also got a treatment of Sugar Maple glimmermist and some gold glitter.

Anyhow, let me know if you have any more questions on what I did. It's a whole lot of fun to try making your own mist! Give it a whirl!

Also, I am linking up this project on Scrapbookers Anonymous. I haven't played there in ages! Their challenge this 'time round is using your dye cutters! I used FOUR on this card!

I am also linking this up to Get Creative which is a new blog I've never played along with. Card challenges all this month! Mine fits perfectly into their first challenge which is using more than three layers. Check it out here!


27 comments:

  1. Fantastic vintage Christmas cards! Had to enlarge the pictures so I wouldn't miss anything. Love the added mesh to them too. So completely creative to make your own spritz! Love the flowers. Don't have that punch, but I do have others and I'm off to play with my coffee filters.
    Beautiful inspiration.
    Thank you!! :D

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  2. WOW these are amazing cards!!!!!
    and huge thank you for the mini tutorial on how to make your gorgeous flowers....love it!
    Why dont you enter the cards here
    http://craftycroppersgr.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-10-01T09%3A00%3A00%2B03%3A00&max-results=1
    we are holding card challenges for the whole month!!
    hugz
    irini

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  3. Thanks Irini, I think I will for sure! Looks like lots of fun!

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  4. Fabulous cards and amazing flowers. Love the stunning papers you have used and the vintage style of the cards. Thank you for joining us for the first time at get Creative and hope to see you again.

    Marie

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  5. Gorgeous! I loveeeeee those flowers!! Thanks so much for playing along with SA! :):):):):):):):):):):)

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  6. These are really beautiful, and I LOVE your flowers you made!

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  7. Gorgeous cards! Thanks for sharing the flower technique and thanks for joining in the fun at Scrapbookers Anonymous!!!

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  8. Your cards are absolutely fab! I love your handmade flowers...they look amazing and how clever of you to use coffee filters. Its great that you made your own glimmermist...I've been thinking of making my own too...see how that goes. :) All your punched and die cut bits look fab and loving the vintage feel to your cards.

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  9. Your cards are amazing Mirtalee!!! I love everything on them!!! I will surely try to make this gorgeous flower!! Thanks for playing along with GC!!! XXXXX

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  10. Love those Victorian style X'mas cards! :)And how beautiful are those blooms! :)

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  11. Wow, love your style! Gorgeous cards! thanks for playing along with get creative.

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  12. Gosh these cards are adorable, love the flowers and how you made all those lovely flowers, you are so talented. Your Autumn layout is fabulous, love the pics and the title and then your lamp is just out of this world! You are on a roll, take care Doreen x

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  13. wow!!!these are awesome!!!
    nice work!
    thank you for joining us at gc!

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  14. Stunning work, wow!
    Thanks for joining us in Get Creative!

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  15. Φανταστική η δουλειά σου,καλή επιτυχία!!!

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  16. Φανταστική η δουλειά σου,καλή επιτυχία!!!

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  17. Your cards are so pretty! Well done with the flowers and making your own spray. Thanks for playing along with us at Scrapbookers Anonymous.

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  18. Brilliant cards! Love the flower tutorial too! :)

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  19. Great job!!! I love them all!!! thank you for playing with us on Get Creative blog!

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  20. Your vintage Christmas cards are beautiful, love the flowers. Thanks for joining us over at Scrapbookers Anonymous.xxxx

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  23. So glad you played along with us at Scrapbookers Anonymous, Mitralee - just love your stuff. You sure have captured a Victorian feel with these cards - simply gorgeous!!!

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  24. Wow- you're organised- Love the colours and the vintage style- thanks for joining us at Scrapbookers Aononymous

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  25. Wow, this is fab, love the vinatge look.

    Hugz Tina

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  26. What a fantabulous vintage Christmas cards... I love them... Awesome... Thank you so much for playing along with US over at Scrapbookers Anonymous... hugs..xoxo

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  27. this cards are adorable! great work!
    Eli (Scrapbookers anonymous)

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