Crafty Elves Countdown to the Holidays - February 2020

Hello everyone and welcome to the Crafty Elves Countdown to the Holidays - January 2020 Edition.  I am back with the other Crafty Elves (Debra, Lisa, and Jessica) to bring you 4 Christmas/Holiday projects. This month I made 3 cards and 2 envelopes that I think you will really like.  

For my first card, which I had so much fun making, I used several stamp sets from Reverse Confetti that are not Christmas stamps sets but I used them to make a Christmas card.  

I used the "Cured" stamp and matching die.  I stamped and die cut the two pigs using decorative paper.  Then I stamped and die cut the feeding trough using white cardstock and colored it with a gray marker.  I made a top-folding A2 card base, which I covered with decorative Christmas paper and then I cut a piece of white cardstock using a stitched rectangle die.  I stamped the sentiment "let's celebrate" from Fancy Word Coordinates and then I adhered the images.  The light pig was glued down and the feeding trough and red pig I adhered with foam dots.  The last thing I did was to adhere some Santa hat stickers (Hobby Lobby) and 3 red sequins. 

My second card came out much better and cuter than what I had in my brain!!  I used the Holiday Cheers stamp and Holiday Cheers die sets from Your Next Stamp, along with my BIC Intensity Markers.  

I cut a piece of white cardstock using a stitched rectangle die.  I stamped the sentiment and 3 of the images and colored them with the BIC markers. Then I applied Glossy Accents over the beer and martini images.  While they were drying, I stamped the other 3 images, die-cut them, and colored them in.  I put some foam dots on the back and adhered them to the card front.  Then I applied Glossy Accents over them also. 

For my 3rd project, I made a card using the Wonderful Winter Digital Stamp Set from Graciellie Design.  I printed the image twice on to white cardstock.  One of the images I cut using a stitched rectangle die, which I adhered to my card front.  Then I colored in the coffee pot using a Cloud Nine Grey BIC marker first and then blending in with a Stone Grey BIC marker.  Then I applied a dot of Frosted Lace Stickles to each of the smaller flowers in the pot. 

While those were drying, I cut the flowers from the 2nd image.  Then I colored them using Pink Flamingo BIC marker first and then blending in some of the Fandango Pink BIC marker.  I adhered this to the card front using foam dots and then I applied some of the Frosted Lace Stickles to the center of each flower.  

The last thing I did was to print one of the sentiments, cut it using a stitched banner die and adhering it to the card front using foam dots.

You can buy these markers directly from BIC by clicking HERE. 

My 4th project is not a card but two envelopes to put the cool Christmas cards into!!  I used the Christmas Envelope Dressup stamp set from Stamplistic.  I love these stamps and they are great for a card and for snail mail envelopes.  The set comes with two stamps.  One is a mailbox adorned with lights for Christmas and the other is a "place postage here" image with light around it.  

For one envelope, I stamped the mailbox in the lower-left corner and then I stamped parts of the "place postage here" stamp around the envelope. Because the envelope is for an A2 card, the stamp is a bit too big for it but it was fun to use the edges.

For the 2nd envelope, I used a stamp positioner to stamp just the lights from the "place postage here" stamp - around the whole envelope.  I colored both with BIC Intensity Markers.  

I think I need to do a video to show how I made these envelopes.  LOL

I hope these projects inspire you to break out some of your Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza/Holiday stamps to make some cards.  Please remember to check out what the other Crafty Elves have up their sleeves this month - 

Debra (Meticulosity)

Lisa (Life of a BZ Scrapper)

Jessica (Polka Dot Orchard)

I'd love to know which of my projects was your favorite!  As always, thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!  You can also follow me on my Instagram page by clicking HERE!

Until next time, hugs from Brasil - 

~Michael