CHRISTMAS CARDS!!!

I finally finished my Christmas Cards around 1 AM this morning. I've been working on them for a few weeks and I am so happy that I am finished. Now I can start working on gifts. My sister in law gave me a box of blank cards with glittery fronts that I embellished on. I used every stamp in the Snow Swirl set and from a few other sets as well. I did my cards on a whim, not planning who I was giving them to or knowing how many to make. I decided that when I finished all the cards I would count them and then decide who to send them to and after I completed all of them I had a total of 50 cards!!! That's 25 less then last year but since postage has gone up I had to cut back some. If I really feel like I need more then I'm going to have some photo ones printed up at Walgreens because I have A LOT of gifts to work on. Some of the photos don't show how truly beautiful these cards are because almost all of them have glitter or some type of bling on them.

A few things to notice are:
- Rudolphs nose is a red rhinestone or "bling"
- The gingerbread man has cinnamon glued on him for a fuzzy look & nice scent as well.
- I used Crystal Effects on the poinsetta seeds & the small ornaments on the "make MERRY" tag & the snowflakes on the green card.
- I also used a little bling on the "make MERRY" tags as well.
- To me the Season's Greetings stamp looks crooked on all the cards but it's not, it's just the way the words are are connected, no matter how I stamped it, it always came out looking that way.

It takes too long to load this many photos so I did a pretty slide show.

My First Name Frame

I completed my first name frame! It turned out pretty well I think. I did it for one of Kent's girlfriends who turned 4 in the beginning of November. I drew & cut all the letters myself as I don't have a die cutter yet but I think they look really good to be free hand. I kept a template so in the future I can just trace the letters & cut. It took me a few hours to complete and Jeff asked me what was taking me so long because I don't usually need that much time to complete any of my projects but since this was my first time I took my time so I would get it just right. I think coordinating the different papers took the longest.


Here is the card, it was too pretty to put in an envelope:

Candles

Here are some Candles that I did as Birthday gifts. They are the Glade candles with the stickers peeled off and my own customization. The jars give off an optical illusion that they are complete perfect cylinders but they are not! They have a little bit of a taper in them so the paper doesn't lay perfectly flat against the glass but once completed you'll won't notice it at all! I love doing these as gifts because they are so simple but turn out so beautifully in the end.

I've also included the cards that I made for them as well. I've started to use cards as part as my wrapping as they really jazz up the outside of a gift, plus who keeps envelopes anyways?

Mountain Mist Scent
This one was for our 13 year old neighbor:


Card:


Clean Linen Scent:
And this one was for one of my bestest friends, Pat who turned 40 last month. I used some bling hearts for the cherries.


Card: