A C3 Christmas Card Swap part 2

As promised: here are the beautiful cards that the girls on my team made for our Christmas Card Swap

 Lynda's card. Beautiful! I love how she used the Home For Christmas Designer Paper and the Very Vanilla Subtle Stripes Ribbon together, plus using several coordinating colors on the stamped image. Click HERE to view the Holiday Catalog

Inez' card - she used the very striking Holidays Fancy Foil Designer Vellum.  I have not dug into my pack yet so I am always glad for new ideas to use it with.

Carla's card - Carla cased this card from the Holiday Catalog and made it her own by switching things up just a bit!  The catalogs are one of our best sources of inspiration!

Peggy's card - using the Flurry of Wishes bundle. I love the soft color of Soft Sky on this card.  I believe the cut out of the snowflake is retired, but it works perfectly on this card!

Dawn's card - she also used the Flurry of Wishes stamp set and I love how just changing up the colors  makes the stamp set so versatile.

Sue's Card - beautifully made using the Happy Scenes Stamp Set.  This set can be purchased in a bundle with the Hearth and Home Thinlits Dies.  These dies are so popular there is a back order.  I always say - buy  what you really really want right away to avoid this problem. A couple other new items Sue used on her card are the Softly Falling Embossing Folder and the Silver Cording.  (This cording is also available in gold).  The little stars - perfectly made using the Stars Border Punch and Silver Glimmer Paper from the Main Catalog. Click HERE to view the main catalog.  Want to get a catalog for yourself?  I would gladly be your demonstrator.  Just place an online order using the Hostes Code below and I will gladly send you a catalog.
Didn't my girls do a beautiful job!!  I do believe you will see me casing some of these ideas for my classes!!  I am so proud of all of them... Wouldn't you love to be a part of our team too?? We would love to have you!  Just click HERE to get started.  Just click on the JOIN THE FUN tab, and Please, Please, Please, when placing your order on line use the HOSTESS CODE ANWC9P9G for the month of October
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Christi

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A C3 Christmas Card Swap

Please use Hostess code: ANWC9P9G for the month of October.
Last night was our monthly Team Meeting with the entire Red Hot Stamper Group.  Glenda does such a great job keeping our team informed of all the new things going on in Stampin' Up! and encouraging us in our own businesses.  Once a quarter she allows my wonderful team of ladies from Christi's Creative Crew join in on the monthly meeting, and this was a perfect time with the new plan that started up in October.  Just wanted to say how much I appreciate her leadership.
My team of ladies wanted to do a Christmas Card Swap with just our group and October was the chosen month.
I wasn't sure what stamp set I wanted to use for the swap so I asked Gracie to pick one out for me.  After looking in the Holiday Catalog she chose the PEACEFUL PINES stamp set and she specified which tree she wanted me to use. I will just say that if I were to pick a set (and-or a tree from that set) I would not have chosen either (I don't think).

I knew that I wanted to make a winter scene with sponging, but needed a little inspiration so I went to Pinterest and found a beautiful card by the talented Jan Tink.  We are told that if we change up a card only by 10% we can call it our own.  

I started out with making 3 masks to create the shape of the landscape.  My intention was to use POOL PARTY INK, but after I inked up my sample/trial card I realized that my POOL PARTY INK was messed up and it was a blend of Pool Party and MINT MACRON, and the card stock for the base of the card fit better with the MINT MACRON so I thought I would just go with it - loved the outcome!!

The tree in the foreground and the one on the envelope is from PEACEFUL PINES while the others (embossed with Whisper White Embossing Powder) are from FESTIVAL OF TREES and the "Merry Christmas" is from PETITE PAIRS.

At the very end I spritzed it with some Champagne Shimmer which sadly is now retired.

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Christi

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