Hello friends! Welcome back to Day 8 of my 25 Days of Holiday cards! 

Today's card features Anna Griffin's Angelic card toppers.

I layered some holiday card layers and topped them with these beautiful 3D images. 

Simple and sweet! Sometimes you don't have to add that much to make a card come together quickly.

Thank you for stopping by today!

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25 Days of Holiday Cards Day 7

Hello friends! Welcome to Day 7 of my 25 Days of Holiday cards! Today's card is from Anna Griffin's Shaker Christmas Card kit. 

These cards were fun and easy to put together. The sequins come in a prefilled pouch that's easy to attach to the card base. The inside of the card is pre-printed with a festive message that shows thru the window. Then you just decorate the front. So fun and so cute!

Thank you for stopping by today!

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25 Days of Holiday Cards Day 6

Hello friends and welcome back for day 6 of my 25 Days of Holiday Cards.

Today's card features a fun die set from Spellbinders called Truckin through the Seasons.

I signed up for their card and die subscription and have been having so much fun creating with my kits! I love that I could put the Christmas tree in the back of the pickup truck. The dies were really fun to create with.

If you're interested, you can see how to cut and put this cute truck together in this video by Spellbinders.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! See you tomorrow with another card!

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25 Days of Holiday Cards Day 5

Hello friends! It's Day 5 of my 25 Days of Holiday Cards.

Today's card is featuring the mini botanical dies by Anna Griffin. I paired them along with her Perfect  Pattern Christmas cards and Holiday Card toppers. I used glitter and foil paper for the dies to make them stand out.

I love those little bows. They are so cute and perfect for tags as well. 

Thank you for stopping by today!

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25 Days of Holiday Cards Day 4

Hello and welcome back for Day 4 of my 25 Days of Holiday cards.

For today's card, I started with a Perfect Pattern cards for Christmas card base, used an embossing folder on foiled cardstock and layered patterned cardstock along with an ornament die from Anna Griffin.

I finished the card off with a sentiment and bow die.

What's your go-to technique for card making? Are you a stamper only or do you like to use dies only? Do you like to use stamps and dies? 

I find I like to use both. When mass producing cards, I like to go for a simple design. I love to hear your thoughts. Leave me a comment below.

Thanks for stopping by today!

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25 Days of Holiday Cards Day 3

Hello friends and welcome back for Day 3 of my 25 Days of Holiday Cards!

For today's card, I made a masculine holiday card using Anna Griffins Christmas Sentiment Dies.

First I chose some pattern paper that was masculine and then cut the sentiment die and made it the focal point of the card. The two patterns really compliment each other well and these dies really are versatile and fun to create with!

I finished the card with the ornament top die and layered a twine bow. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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25 Days of Holiday Cards Day 2

Hello friends! It's Day 2 of my 25 days of Holiday cards! 

Today's card features the mini Christmas stickers and sentiments. These are fun the layer on the card over the ornament die I used.

I used Therm-O-Web's 3D foam stickers to adhere the mini die cuts to the card base. I love using these foam squares to add dimension to all of my cards.

Another tip for making several cards at once is to die cut several of the ornament dies and pre-cut your layers. Then you sit down and assemble your cards quickly.

Thank you for stopping by today!

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25 Days of Holiday Cards Day 1

Hello friends! Welcome to another year of 25 Days of Holiday cards. For the next 25 days, I'll be sharing a variety of handmade card creations. I hope you will get some inspiration to make your own cards. 

Kicking off this year's 25 days is a card I created using Anna Griffin's new plaid pattern papers and the Christmas sentiment dies.

For this card, I also used Anna's glitter paper and adhesive from Therm-O-Web to create my shaker card.

I filled my shaker with gold sequins and Christmas trees from the shaker die collection.

Want to make your shaker cards really move? Add some microbeads. You can pick them up at any craft store. They really help the other items you fill your shaker cards with move more freely.

So that's it for today! 24 more cards to go! I hope you'll come back and check out the rest! 

Thanks for stopping by today!

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Coming soon! 25 Days of Holiday Cards 2018

This year I am going to begin my 25 Days of holiday cards inspiration starting the day after Thanksgiving.

I hope you'll join me!

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Unity + My Sweet Petunia Hop and Brown Thursday Releases

Hello Unity friends! We are so excited to be teaming up with My Sweet Petunia for today's Hop!

The hop list can be found at the Unity Stamp Company Blog HERE and on the My Sweet Petunia Blog HERE.

For today's HOP, I created a fun card using my Misti and the brand new Unity image titled:

O'Holy Blessed Night by Tierra Jackson

Inking up stamped images in the Misti is a snap! Some people like to remove the grid pages when they have rubber cling mounted stamps but I find that my image stamped just fine with them.

I like to emboss my stamped images before I color them with my Copic markers.

Here's my finished card.

I also inked up the new image

A Time Of Peace by Tierra Jackson

Make sure you visit Unity's Website to ALL the new releases. There is SO much more to show you there.

And don't forget! We have Prizes to giveaway!!

Unity will be giving away 2 Unity filled prize packs and My Sweet Petunia is giving away a $60 gift certificate. If you like to use the verbiage below, you are welcome to or make it your own.

We have TWO amazing Unity filled prize packages to give away PLUS a $60 gift certificate to My Sweet Petunia. Leave a comment on EACH design team member’s blog in the hop for your chance to win. You have until Monday, November 12th to leave a comment. Winners will be picked and announced Tuesday, November 13^th on the Unity Stamp Company and My Sweet Petunia blogs.

Thank you for stopping by today! 

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Christmas Collage Toppers

Hello friends! Today I am sharing my Christmas Card Topper creations. I loved creating with these beautiful accents that transform your cards into fabulous creations!

Add some of Anna's beautiful dies and layer to the perfect card.

I love creating with these Collage toppers because they make card making so easy and quick. You can easily create 10 cards in 10 minutes.

I also like to add additional mini bows to my cards.

Thank you for stopping by today. Hopefully, your holiday cards are coming along nicely!

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Hello Pumpkin card with Deco Foil

Hello friends! I'm sharing a cute little fall themed card I made with Deco Foil and other products from Therm-O-Web as well as a die and embossing folder from Anna Griffin.

Foiling the Designer Toner sheets is a snap!

The Royal Sovereign laminating machine works great! I use the wax paper included to place my cardstock and foil inside to run thru the laminator.

I cut my pumpkin die from a foiled toner sheet with a fun retired die from Anna Griffin and embossed the cardstock I wanted to mount it on with a retired embossing folder from Anna Griffin.

To put it all together, I used 3D foam squares from Therm-O-Web.

I finished this cute care with some bakers twine. 

For more information about Deco Foil and foiling techniques, please visit the Therm-O-Web blog!

Thanks for stopping by!

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