Christmas Cards as of 11/18/09

I was going to post all of my cards in the order they were made -- and I've actually got all of the pictures taken.  But renaming and organizing by date is really going s-l-o-w-l-y.   In the meantime, I've made some Christmas cards that I wanted to share.  Many of these are based on ideas from other stampers.  Some are actually my own design, but it's hard to keep which is which straight.

I made 25 cards of this design for a Christmas Card challenge issued by my Stampin' Up demo, Donna. 
Here's a close up of a single card:

Here are some other Christmas cards I've made recently:  This one is called a Joy Fold Card.  The top one shows the card open; the bottom one is semi-closed to illustrate the construction.

This one is called an 'easel card'.  When closed, it lies flat.  When open, the front is propped open against a raised item - button, brad, or in this case - a stamped, cut-out image popped up with dimensionals.

Here's a card with a 'hole' punched in the cover.  Then, on the inside - the same shape in another color/designer paper.  The top picture shows the card kind of open.  The bottom one shows it closed.  I had to prop it closed with my scissors.

Here's a card that I definitely CASEd from the SCS website, I just can't remember who designed it.  I love its simple beauty.  Made it with the Petals a Plenty embossing folder, shimmed so that only some of the card got embossed.

And last (for today anyway) but not least, here is a card I made for Frieda, who loves angels.  She doesn't know it yet, but this is her Christmas card. 

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Recent cards (out of sequence)

 

Little Leaves

I CASEd this card from somewhere/someone, but do not recall from whom.  This uses the Big Shot to cut the leaves from Stampin' Up's 2009 "In Colors".  I do love the color combination.  You can't see it in this image, but the white is embossed as well.

 

Reflection

This is a card using the Reflection Technique.  It is my own design (for a change). 

So, I think I've come a long way from that first card.  From now on, I'll post the cards according to when they were made.  As best I can remember, anyway.

My first card

Way back in September 2008, I attended my first Stampin' Up class.  Lucky for me it was a 'Back to Basics' class, which taught very basic design and technique ideas.  I'll upload the cards we made at the class in the next post.

Then I came home and made my very first on-my-own card. At this point, I had no Stampin' Up supplies at all.  I got the basic supplies at Michaels.  (I quickly learned not to do that.  Stampin' Up quality and color co-ordination is the best.)   I remember being so proud of this card.  If you look closely, you can see that one of the flower images is popped up using a dimensional. I think I actually sent a copy to someone.

Just for comparison, I'm going to leap ahead to recent cards.  Then, I promise to start uploading them in the order they were made. 

Well, my uploads keep failing.  Perhaps I can't add new items to a posted entry?  I'll try again with a new entry.

It's a beginning

I thought it would be nice? helpful? interesting? to post the cards that I make on a blog.  Easy to share - easy to find.  I'm going to post these in the order they were made - I think it will be interesting to see the progress I've made.

And, since I cannot upload a PDF - which is how I've saved the images so far - I have to rescan all of the cards to create JPG images.  So it will take awhile to catch up.  

I do have one JPG image of a card I made in early June.  Since it's a Tri-Fold Shutter card, I couldn't scan it in.  Just to see how these things look here online, I'm going to upload that card, even though it's a fairly new one and thus out of sequence.

 

Tri-Fold Bunny

It's not done yet - once I decide how I'm going to use it, I need to add images or words to the other inside surfaces.  The hardest part of this card was coloring the bunny!