Hello!  It is Lisa Lahiff here with you today, and I’m very excited to share this CAS Christmas Card with a Retro Feel…

I used a fun mix of products to create this card including: Retro Ornaments by Avery Elle, Lawn Fawn Stitch Border Cuts, and set #5 of the Tim Holtz Distress Crayons.  To be honest this card started out as a happy accident.  When I first got my distress crayons I just wanted to play around and test them out so I mixed a few colors onto watercolor cardstock and went over them with a baby wipe. I then spritzed it with some water and perfect pearls and set it off to dry.  The stitched background was inspired by a card I had seen Jennifer McGuire create quite some time ago, and I had been itching to create one too so I did.  I also decided to round the bottom of the stitched background with My Favorite Things Die-namic Stitched Basic Edges.  I then went back to my now dry watercolor cardstock and stamped the ornament images with Versafine Ink, cut them out and added a few accents with a gold pen. I stamped the sentiment in the right corner of some patterned paper, and then I layered it all onto my cardbase.

Thank you so much for stopping by and Happy Crafting!

Avery Elle – Retro Ornaments	Ranger Tim Holtz – Distress Crayons Set #5	Ranger Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper 4.25 x 5.5	Stitched Basic Edges Die-namics (My Favorite Things)	Stitched Borders Die Set (Lawn Fawn)
Pretty Pink Posh Mixed Cupped Sequins – Sparkling Clear Mix	Gold Sequins 4″ (Pretty Pink Posh)	VersaFine Pigment Ink Pad – Onyx Black (Tsukineko)

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Hi all, it’s Clare here today! I couldn’t stop with My Favorite Things Beast Friends after last week – I wanted to show how you could use it to make a non-holiday or even winter card.

I started out by die cutting a bunch of trees using My Favorite Things Birch Trees dies, and adhered them to navy cardstock. I then stamped a bunch of little leaves from Avery Elle’s Woodland Wonders, and colored them with Blue Gray, Cobalt Blue and some water to lighten it up. After die cutting the leaves, I adhered them to my trees.

Next was the landscape – I die cut two pieces of vellum using Lawn Fawn’s Stitched Hillside border dies, then die cut a piece of white cardstock using the same die. I inked my sentiment first with Versamark, then with Hero Arts Navy, added some Sparkle clear embossing powder, and heat embossed the sentiment. I trimmed my hills down, and adhered them to the base.

Next was the beast! I colored the little dude pretty much with Mid Brown – I struggle to color images that have “large” spaces, such as his tummy.

I brought in a little pink with some butterflies from Avery Elle’s Woodland Wonders, colored with Light Carmine and water.

Thanks so much for stopping in today and God bless!

BB Beast Friends (My Favorite Things)	BB Beast Friends (My Favorite Things)	My Favorite Things Die-namic Set – Birch Trees	Woodland Wonders Stamp Set (Avery Elle)	Stitched Hillside Borders Die Set (Lawn Fawn)
VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad	Hero Arts Shadow Dye Mini Ink Set – Winter Cubes	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush	Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock 8.5	Advanced Tape Glider and Tape – Pink (Scotch)
Double-Sided Foam Mounting Tape .5″ (Scotch)	WOW! Embossing Powder 15ml – Clear Hologram Sparkle	Heat It Craft Tool (Ranger)	Inkadinkado Embossing Magic

Good morning!  Jess here with a Christmas card using two newly released stamps from Sunny Studio Stamps and Mama Elephant!  I’m starting to mass-produce Christmas cards for the upcoming Caring Hearts Card Drive and these two sets combined to make a really simple but elegant card!

I started by stamping the pine bough from Holiday Style with Evergreen ink from Altenew.  Then I used Altenew inks in shades of red to stamp the layered ornament that looks SO real!!

I die-cut the entire panel with the Wonky Stitches die for a little interest around the panel and then stamped the main sentiment from Merry Christmas Wishes with versamark and heat-embossed it with gold embossing powder!  And that’s it!  Love LOVE both those sets and I have a feeling you’ll be seeing them quite a bit this season! 😉

Supplies:

Sunny Studio Clear Stamp Set – Holiday Style	Mama Elephant Clear Stamp Set – Merry Christmas Wishes	Avery Elle-ment Die Set – Wonky Stitches	Altenew Mini Ink Pad Set – Red Cosmos	Altenew Mini Ink Pad Set – Green Fields
Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock – 8.5	Inkadinkado Embossing Magic	VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad	WOW! Embossing Powder 15ml – Gold Rich	Heat It Craft Tool (Ranger)