10 Days Until Christmas - Last Minute Card

Just 10 more days until Christmas! Are your Christmas cards made yet? Are they mailed? If not here's an idea for some quick cards - use stickers for your main image. I found a stack of stickers I had brought a few years back on sale for just this purpose and combined one of the images on the sheets with one of the latest Tim Holtz dies, some stickles and some inked white paper. It took a while to come up with the design but once I had that making them went fairly quickly for a homemade card. The real key to this approach is to find an affordably priced sticker sheet with a lot of images that appeal to you so you can get many cards per sticker sheet.

If you want read more, here's the original blog post I did on it. If you want directions and sizes, click on the image for the instruction sheet or click here.

Holiday Present Card Update

Here's a quick update on the latest card I created. It's a Christmas card based on same present stamp I used a while back for an any event card. By just changing the colors used, it is now a Christmas present. I used Sharpie markers this time so this is something anyone can easily do. The full blog post is here if you want to read more, or you can click on the card to go the web directions.

Thanksgiving and Christmas Cards

Here's the latest set of cards I've posting this past week or so:

	Millie's back for a Thanksgiving appearance! She's colored with colored pencils and Gamsol blending this time.
	Here's a landscape version of the card.
	Here's a different color arrangement
	Here's a glittery Christmas card made from multiple types of glitter with Copic markers for the coloring.
	Here's another Christmas card. This one is just stamping, punching and tinsel glitter on the side.

I did full posts for them over on my main blog if you want to read more about what I was thinking, or just click on the image if you want the web directions for how to make it.

Christmas Sentiment Tree Card

Here's a great Christmas card to make.




It's great because:

• It required a limited amount of supplies, especially if you already have stuff to do embossing.
  
• All the supplies came from local craft stores at 40-50% off.
  
• Each card does not take hours to complete. There are a lot of great cards out there but most are too labor intensive to be practical if you have a lot of relatives and friends you need to send cards too.
  
• Most importantly, it looks nice.
  

Since this is the first Christmas card post of the season, I'm going to try to do a giveaway. Post a comment on my main blog using the link below on the original posting by Nov 14, 12:00AM EST. For every 25 people that comment, I'll giveaway a pack of 4 of these cards to a random winner until I run out so spread the word!

Enter here: http://sharedcards.blogspot.com

My Christmas Cards 2009

Hey guys I was hoping to have these done last week but here you go!

Dasher embossed in gold:City of David:

Season of Friendship/Peaceful Wishes:
(the snowflakes are glittered)
Berry Christmas:

Delightful Decorations:
Patterned Pines:

Here is this years family photo and poem:

This is us at the Santa Train in Snoqualmie

Hark, oh friends and listen, for

On Kirkland's cold and shaded moor

our robust band of Wilsons four

Has moved into a humble dwelling

For Ben his thesis did defend

His languished schooling put to end

And with the help of faithful friends

In Bellevue works, malaria quelling

And all the while fair Bri was found

Getting bigger, growing round

Another sister coming down

Always crafting, sewing, baking

While Ginny has the magic touch

Counting, writing words and such

Violet talks and talks so much

Ne'er too far from trouble making

So at the end of another year

We gather with our family near

To recall again with joy and cheer

The baby born on Christmas morning


MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Red,White and Blue!!!

Christmas in July!!!

~DEANNE~

Father's Day Cards ...

Since Father's Day is Sunday I thought I'd share a few of thecards I made ..enjoy! :)

Cute cards to try!!!

I have a tutorial HERE for you to make the flowers!!!

DEANNE BURTON

Christmas Cards

As part of my year long campaign to make all of my own cards, I made my own Christmas cards this year.

I had two basic themes: Snowman and Reindeer. All of the cards were made using a variety of cardstocks and the decorative papers were from the DCWV Ultimate Christmas stack from 2007. They have a lot of hand made accents and embellishments, since I wasn't able to get the supplies I wanted out here.

The Reindeer card:
The face was an oval cut from DCWV paper. The nose is a red print paper punched out using a 1" circle punch. I used my eyelet punch to make "button" holes. I used ivory crochet thread for the button. The eyes are just white cardstock punched with a normal hole punch and colored in. The antlers are free hand and cut out of beige paper. The mouth is made from black crochet thread, and the head is accented with a red/blue ribbon. I stamped greetings, and placed them on hand cut tags, which were punched and tied to the antlers with crochet thread (and taped in place on the card). The reindeer head is on a dimensional (made from cardboard).

The Snowman card:
The snowman was hand drawn (I made a template for myself so I wouldn't have to keep drawing it over and over again), as were the hat (made from black cardstock) and "arms" (made from brown decorative papers). I used satin ribbon for the hat accent and scarf. The scarf is held in place by a pewter star brad. The buttons on the snowman are black glass beads, and the body is accented with white glitter. The nose is just a piece of orange cardstock. The rest of the features are drawn on. I stamped greetings, and placed them on hand cut tags, which were punched and secured to the card using a pewter eyelet. The snowman body is on a dimensional (made from cardboard).