I started by stamping and heat embossing the big Poinsettia stamp set twice: once with gold embossing powder on Hammermill and once with Distress Embossing Glaze in Speckled Egg on vellum.

The December 2024 Pinkfresh Challenge Theme is Magical Holiday and the color palette is Mermaid Cove, Cherry Blossom, Berrylicious, Sunkissed, and Spruce Tips. For this card I opted for the theme and a more restrained palette.

One thing I love about Kat Scrappiness is that she has lots of shaker dies! This older Christmas Lantern is one of them.

I cut out the A2 Cover Die from an old background. The background was stamped with a Taylored Expressions background stamp and heat embossed in light blue. Then I ink blended on it with Pinkfresh Paradise Ink, concentrating on the edges.

I want my Santa to sit at the bottom of an A2 card with the sentiment above him. It’s a pretty big sentiment, so it’s important to plan out my card.

I cut the oval base layer three times from red foil cardstock and once from clear acetate. Next I cut the oval frame three times from red glitter foam. Finally I cut the ornament toppers from gold foil cardstock. There are three of them in the die set, so I only had to run them through my die cutting machine once.

But this blog post is mostly about taking the BetterPress for a spin. I own a number of plates already, because they foil fantastically well. But the first plates I used were the ones that came in the box. I also used the BetterPress ink, cardstock and tape that came in the box. As you can see, it turned out beautifully!

Today I’m participating in Spellbinders launch of the Love on the Rocks Collection. For this card I used the die set called Love on the Rocks and the press plate sentiments. The sentiment set is called Valentine Happy Hour Sentiments.

I had a dual purpose for these cards. I needed to create a card with an old kit or subscription for an Instagram hop and I needed sample cards for my next giveaway. So I created these three cards with the Spellbinders Large Die of the Month for November 2021. It’s a slimline die set and it’s called Christmas Foliage Strip and Borders. It consists of four curved slimline border dies and layering dies for the Christmas-themed border. See the labeled die set below.

These three cards are my entry in the November 2024 Pinkfresh Challenge. I chose to use the challenge palette. It is Pinkfresh Waterfall, Begonia, Mimosa, Citron & Storm. These are not exactly traditional holiday colors. To make it a little more holiday-ish, I used Gold embossing powder for Citron.

These three cards are my entry in the November 2024 Pinkfresh Challenge. I chose to use the challenge palette. It is Pinkfresh Waterfall, Begonia, Mimosa, Citron & Storm. These are not exactly traditional holiday colors. To make it a little more holiday-ish, I used Gold embossing powder for Citron.

These three cards are my entry in the November 2024 Pinkfresh Challenge. I chose to use the challenge palette. It is Pinkfresh Waterfall, Begonia, Mimosa, Citron & Storm. These are not exactly traditional holiday colors. To make it a little more holiday-ish, I used Gold embossing powder for Citron.

I started out by stamping and heat embossing the foliage arrangement (twice) and two sentiments from the Kat Scrappiness Christmas Add-On Stamp for the Holiday Lantern in Silver. Then I colored the arrangement with my Ohuhu Alcohol Markers. See above for the markers I used.

I made these cards for a giveaway on Instagram. You can also watch a video with these cards.

I’m still charmed by Simon Hurley’s Woodland Wildlife Stamp and Die Set. So for an Instagram challenge with a snow globe theme, I watercolored the reindeer from it. I also submitted it to Simon Says Stamp’s Monday Challenge.

I created a felt yeti with Rocky, the Dancin’ Yeti for his launch. But I also wanted to color him with Distress Watercolor Pencils. This time I created a friend for him. 💗

On Day 3 of Online Card Classes So Very Merry, Jennifer McGuire showed us how to create Hanukkah cards. The basic idea is to cut ¼” blue cardstock strips to act as candles.

I chose sentiments, so I can use these cards when I send off giveaway prizes. Having received giveaway prizes that didn’t even come with a post-it, I’m even more determined to always include a handmade card!

This week I’m participating in OnlineCardClasses.com’s holiday class. It’s Monday through Saturday, so there will be a lot of cardmaking this week. You may remember that I participated in another class about embossing folders back in May.

The snowdrop plate is part of the January Set of Spellbinders Florals Through the Year Collection. So I created a snow-themed shaker card with it. This was very easy, using the Spellbinders Arch Shaker Dome.

First I foiled the snowdrops and the January plate with silver foil, then I foiled the negative with a solid hot foil plate. I added some green ink blending on the leaves and the tips of the petals.