Fancy Christmas

Through my card crafting years I have had friends give me old discarded cards. That can be another great way to add to our stashes and save money. I used the Z-Fold on this card, trimmed the sides down on an angle and added a wonderful lace border. A designer paper was used on the inside and on the label. The closure stripped paper is from the discarded card paper and adds a fun closure and extra color to the card. Since it is full of sparkle I added some sparkly red snowflakes and some additional scrap white snowflakes to finish off the card.

Fancy Christmas

Forever and Always

When you need a really quick card rely on your stash to help you along. These flowers have been in my stash for many years and this card came together in moments. To give the card lots of pop and bling, I finished if off with some great large gems.

Forever and Always

You're Fintastic

The salted BG (background) technique can be such a fun technique and using the blues and pinks I felt I was in the Finding Nemo movie when they were in the Jelly Fish field. So I grabbed this fun Jelly Fish from Heartfelt Creations and colored it up and added stickles to have it shine like that super cute scene in the movie.

Copics used: , V12 and R20

You're Fintastic

Trains

Another older set from Stampin Up is the All Aboard set. These trains are so cute and so fun to still use on masculine cards. A great way to add some fun elements to them...add a few gears from your scrap pile.

Copics used: E31, C3, C5 and Y13

Trains

Night Out on the Town

I really love how this die cut works. It can be used for a great guy card and many different papers and colors can be used for some much fun on a card. Additionally the small pieces can all be dune with scraps! My favorite way to accessorize a card is using scraps. Adding the flower was such a fun last minute detail on this card.

Night Out on the Town

XOXO

Stitching on a card is another great way to bring up your card creating skills and add a fun element to the card. This darling Penny Black image is super cute with her blowing kisses.  The added hearts on the top of the card...YEP another great way to use up some card trimmings.

Copics used: E00, E11, E13, Y21, Y26, YR24, R20, R24, R29, RV34 and G07

XOXO

Snowman

This snowman from Sweet N Sassy is such a happy snowman. I am working on getting caught up on Christmas cards. I like to create them year round so that I am ready to mail come the holiday season. That way when December gets here I usually only have a few to create. Well I am way behind already this year with my recent move so having the 42 challenges for Dare to Get Dirty on SCS (Splitcoast Stampers) was a great way to sneak in a few fun Christmas cards.

Copics used: C2, C4, C7, N9, E11, E13, E15, R24, R29, YR14, YR23, G07, G14 and B32

Snowman