I also got a great head start on my Christmas cards, enabling me to get them all done the earliest I have ever finished them! They were all mailed on December 2nd!
I would like to share the cards I made with you now, in case you werent one of the 96 card recipients this year.
First up is the card I made for each of my Mom's (RIP, Mom. I miss you so much!) sisters. Each of the dies used to make the card is one I designed for Frantic Stamper.
This next card is the one I sent to other close family members including my uncle, brothers, and two special cousins. This card used patterned paper and a single stamp, but still is a standout, don't you agree? I enjoyed engineering the popup!
This next card is one I made for a few close stamping friends who have come to expect kinetic cards from me. It is called a popup front panel card, and is actually a lot easier to make than it may appear. The gingerbread house and the Merry Christmas are also dies I designed for Frantic Stamper.
This card was created for my cousin's daughter's family. They have a young son who is probably nearing the end of his magical Santa time, so I wanted to do something to commemorate the time. All of the dies used on this card, and the santa, are ones I designed. The sentiment, though, is not one I drew. It came from a magazine inclusion, but was one that really said what was in my mind when I envisioned the card.
This card was made using an open card front concept shared by Jennifer McGuire. I love how it came out!
This card was a fairly quick one! All the lovely folksy ornaments and the sentiment were cut with a single die (again, one I drew for Frantic Stamper).
Here is another one that was fairly quick. it took two different dies to create the NOEL component, and because I had a limited amount of gold mirror paper I had to cut out the center of the gold layer to use for the NOEL, so it wasnt quite as quick as the Ornament card, but it was relatively quick when compared to the kinetic cards!
This card was created just for its snarky greeting. The trees and Santa are from Frantic Stamper clear stamps that I drew, and the Santa has a matching die that I used to cut him out. The bag was made from a facial tissue. This card didnt actually get sent to any of my friends or family as it was submitted to a magazine for potential publication.
Last, but not least, this card is the one that I sent to most of my friends. This card has penguins and a sentiment designed by a company called My Favorite Things. Those little guys took a LONG time to color. The hills were cut with a die set I drew, as was the label for the sentiment. This is the first Christmas cards I have sent out in YEARS that had elements I didn't draw. I couldn't help it, though, because I just fell in love with those fuzzy little guys!
