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.

At that point the only dark green color on the card was the present that the bottom reindeer is holding. So I added smaller elements with some dark green to other parts of the card to spread it around a bit more.

The skates are really easy to put together, with no fiddly bits. There’s a base layer, that shows up as the tongue of the boot and part of the heel. On top of that comes the pretty top layer, and the sole of the boot. The blade has tabs that you glue to the back of the base.

• Glimmer Hot Foil Roll - Red https://shrsl.com/4lziw

• Glimmer Hot Foil Roll - Green https://shrsl.com/4lziu

• Floral A and Sentiment Press Plate from the Every Occasion Floral Alphabet Collection https://shrsl.com/4lziq

• Skating Into the Holidays Small Die of the Month  https://shrsl.com/4lzif

• Christmas Magic Sentiments Clear Stamp & Die of the Month https://shrsl.com/4lzil

• Holly Flourish 2D Embossing Folder from the Christmas Flourish Collection by Becca Feeken https://shrsl.com/4lzin

The main feature of this card is created with the Honey Bee Lovely Layers Amaryllis Die Set. It creates a lush amaryllis plant with a choice of two planters.

The adorable little gnome with her poinsettia is from Trinity Stamps’ From Our Gnome To Yours stamp and die set. Because it had to be a single-layer card, it took a couple of tries to get right.

This is a relatively simple holiday card that would be easy to mass produce in a couple of evenings.

This die set is great to use with scraps, because there are lots of small dies that combine to create characters and greenery.

Ink smooshing is a very popular technique that creates backgrounds with random blotches of ink. A couple of tips: You can smoosh your ink pads onto your craft mat. That’s where the name of the technique comes from.