Christmas Wreaths

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I have a few more Christmas cards to show you that I have just sent off to Cards that Care, a challenge to collect Christmas cards for the elderly in nursing homes.  I am also entering them into the Passion for Papertrey holiday challenge.  They are all variations of A Wreath for All Seasons, a set I bought back in July, but didn't ink up until just now.  I used the woodgrain IP on all the cards.  Sentiments are either from Wreath for All Seasons or Peaceful Garden.

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Christmas Tree Bling

I found a beautiful Hero Arts Christmas tree stamp at Michaels the other day, on sale for only $5.99.  Since I don't have any Christmas tree stamps, and I am trying to make lots of CAS cards for Cards that Care, I just had to bring this stamp home.  I love it when I can indulge myself, and pretend I am just doing a good deed.  I am going to enter these cards into the Hero Arts November Challenge to 'bling it up'. 

I used Colorbox Evergreen ink and clear embossing powder on the tree.  It's hard to see in the picture, but the sentiment, from Wreath for all Seasons is stamped in black.  I used red jelly dots on the tree for the bling.

This one is the same idea, but I used blue ink for the tree and clear jelly dots for the bling.

Scarlet Jewel paper with gold embossed tree.

SU Navy paper, silver embossing for the tree and sentiment, and a bit of silver shimmer paper for the trim.

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Cards that Care: Part Two

Here is my second batch of cards for Cards that Care. This is a challenge to collect holiday cards for the elderly in nursing homes.  You can see my first batch of cards here.

The first group is made from PTI's Tiny Treats Christmas set and WPlus9 Fairisle Backgrounds, and were inspired by these cards by Euna. 

 

The second group of cards were inspired by this card, and use more of the WPlus9 Fairisle Backgrounds, with sentiments from WPlus9 Winter Wishes, and PTI Holiday Lights, Peaceful Garden, and Tremendous Treats Christmas.

 

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Cards that Care: Part One

Last week, I stumbled across a blog hop for an great cause--collecting holiday cards for the elderly in nursing homes.  You can find out more about this card drive here.  I decided that this would be a fun challenge for me, as I have several Christmas and holiday stamp sets, but don't have a great personal need for a lot of holiday cards, since we do photo cards.  I could have the fun of making Christmas cards, knowing that they would be put to good use.

I have set a goal for myself to make at least 4 simple cards from all of my holiday sets, and to have each card be at least slightly different.  Here are the first two batches of cards.  

This set is made using Holiday Lights:

 

This set was inspired by this card, and it uses Peace be Still:

 

I hope to have another couple of sets in a few days.

 

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