Monday, November 20, 2017

Pink Christmas and Holiday Cards

Holiday and Christmas Card Trio for Cherish the Memory



The holidays are fast approaching and it feels like I have been working on Christmas cards for what seems like forever now! I'm sure it will all be worthwhile when I get to see the smiles on the faces of my relatives when they get the cards hand delivered to them. Thankfully these Studio Light paper kits available from Cherish the Memory have made making plenty of cards fun and almost too easy!

Below are the cards I have assembled with the "Christmas Romance" Card Kit that I will link to at the end of this post. 


The paper kits include pre-designed layouts of the way you can compose the cards using their perforated pre-cut die cuts, but I hardly ever do as the kit is just so generous with the paper die cuts that I almost always create a composition of my own which is one of my favorite things about these paper kits. You can whip up a card in 5 minutes using their suggestion or spend up to an hour or so playing with all the pretty foiled detailed die cuts and make it all your own.


I was a bit ambitious with this card, but it was the most fun out of the three. It's a shaker card as you can tell, but I decided to use two windows, just like I did with my previous shaker tag. 


This card was the simplest but the most beautiful to me. There really is beauty in simplicity! I always tend to add a lot of detail and embellishments, but striving for simplicity still remains to be a challenge for me, and this card was really a prize for me because it turned out to be my favorite!


I used Nuvo Crystal drops and Ranger Liquid Pearls for my cards.




Thank you so much for checking out my cards! 
Click on the Card Kit to purchase

https://www.etsy.com/listing/542529918/christmas-romance-die-cut-block-for-card?ref=shop_home_active_27




Thursday, November 9, 2017

Wintry Fox Card for Cherish the Memory

"All you need is LOVE" Wintry Fox Card



I just LOVE the cool minty and cool colors provided in the card kit pad that I used from Cherish the Memory. Below, I will list the product link if you are interested in these lovely papers.


If you like foxes and or other woodland creatures, as I do, you will be pleased to see that there are plenty of fauna such as this cute fox available in the kit to use to adorn your holiday cards. Foxes are my favorite, and I thought the minty greens and blue hues in the papers compliment the fiery oranges and reds of this lovely fox.


The leaves used here are all from the paper kit. These paper flowers that I used are a mix of craft store bought flowers and my favorite, Prima Marketing flowers. Adding the paper leaves from the kit gave this card so much more dimension, and were perfect in attaching the paper flowers to the background scenery of the card.


This cute journaling card gives the card it's sentiment, and is always a great feature to have in paper kits when you don't have a particular stamp to use or just want the convenience of having versatile uses. This journaling card would have looked adorable in my planner, or art journal!


To give the card a mixed media touch, I used embellishments such as jute string, metallic embroidery floss and rhinestones.




In the overall composition, I made sure to balance the browns against the cool hues of mint and blue by using brown flowers on the left and making sure to use mint die cuts from the pack against the wooden background on the right side.

I hope you enjoyed viewing my card, and thank you so much for stopping by!



https://www.etsy.com/listing/553274655/studio-light-sweet-winter-season-3d-die?ref=shop_home_active_17

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