Crafty Elves' Countdown To Christmas - November 2020 Edition

 

Hello everyone and welcome to the November 2020 Edition of the Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas that I do each month, on the 25th, with some other Crafty Elves -

Debra of Meticulosity
and 

Lisa of Life of a BZscrapper.  

Each month we bring you 4 ideas for Christmas/Holiday cards with the idea that, by the end of the year, you will have enough to send out to those that deserve to receive a handmade card.  Links to a more detailed step by step for each card is at the end of this post.      

Card No. 1

The idea for this card has been floating around in my head for at least 2 years.  I am terrible at putting things back where they belong so when I would find the snowmen stamps, I would not be able to find the dies.  Then I would find the dies but not the stamps.  LOL

• I started by making a top-folding slimline card, 4.24" x 8.75" to which I aligned dotted line washi tape along the bottom.
• I die cut the Citiscape Die (Memory Box) 4 times - 2 times with black cardstock and 2 times with gray cardstock. I adhered yellow washi tape to the back of the gray cityscape pieces and then I adhered them to the black, offsetting just a bit to get a shadow effect.  Then I adhered the Cityscape along the bottom on top of the washi tape.
• I stamped my sentiments (Snow Way from Unity Stamp/Susan Weckesser and Sending Christmas Blessing from Unity Stamp) so that they were stamped before all the pieces were adhered to the card.
• I stamped the snowmen from the Snow Way set (Unity Stamp/Susan Weckesser), colored them in and fussy cut them out.
• I die cut the Double Decker Bus (Memory Box) from red, black, and silver cardstock.  
• I adhered each of the snowmen as if they were inside the bus and then I adhered the bus to the card front using foam tape. 
• Lastly, I stamped the snowflake from the Snow Way set and I added some Stickles to the snowmen as well as a tiny crystal in the center of each snowflake. 

It's a bit of work but worth it in the end. 

Card No. 2

Some of you might notice that I already used this stamp set to make a card for the January 2020 Edition of the Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas.  Since slimline cards have become so hot, I wanted to re-make the card but in a slimline version.

For a more detailed step by step with photos, click HERE to be taken to that blog post.

• I started by making a top-folding slimline card, 4" x 9", to which I adhered a piece of Christmas decorative paper.
• I cut another piece of white cardstock and a piece of white fun foam, 4" x 8.5" each.  Then I used one of the border dies from the Edgers Confetti Cuts from Reverse Confetti to cut a border on the bottom of each one so they matched up. 
• I stamped the string of lights from the Light Up The Holidays stamp set from Your Next Stamp on the white cardstock and colored them using BIC Intensity Markers.
• I stamped the sentiment "Merry Christmas" from the Santa Express stamp set, also from Your Next Stamp on to a piece of white cardstock, cut it using a banner die and layered it on a piece of red cardstock cut using the next size up banner die.
• I adhered the white cardstock to the fun foam.  Then I adhered the sentiment to the card front, wrapping it around the fun foam.  Then I adhered this to the card front.
• Lastly, I used Glossy Accents on each of the lights to give a glass effect.

 Card No. 3

A few weeks ago I received the Happy Hanukkah Script Die from Pretty Pink Posh in a box I got from a friend in the states.  The same week, I was in the mall and found a package of thin multi-colored washi tape and decided the two needed to meet.  

 

• I started by making a top folding 6" x 6" card from white cardstock.  Then I adhered a piece of the decorative paper to the front using the Happy Hanukkah Collection from Photo Play Paper. 
• I cut a piece of silver cardstock, 5.5" x 5.5" and adhered it to the center of the card.
• Again from the Happy Hanukkah Collection, I cut another of the papers to 5.25" x 5.25", adhered this to a piece of fun foam, which I then adhered to the card front.
• I put this into my Misti and stamped the large menorah from the Festival of Lights stamp set from Anthony's Paper Craft.  
• I cut a piece of white cardstock about the size of the Happy Hanukkah die and adhered strips of the different washi tapes across the paper and I burnished well.  
• Then I placed the Happy Hanukkah die face down on the washi tape and die cut it. 
• I adhered the sentiments under the menorah using a spray glue.
• Lastly, I colored the menorah with BIC Intensity Markers, added Yellow Stickles to the candles, and then some dark blue enamel dots to the card front.

Card No. 4

I decided to make some note cards because sometimes you just want to add a note to a present.  These are super easy notecards to make and the use the brand new digital image from Three Room Studio called Winter Wreath.  Only 1 is shown in the post but I was able to make 4. 

• I printed out the Winter Wreath image at 55% on to a piece of A4 cardstock - I am able to get 4 images per sheet.  
• I cut each of the images using a circle die from Spellbinders.  Then I cut a piece of red cardstock using the next size die up.  
• I made 4 top-folding note cards at 4" x 4" to which I adhered two different papers from the Christmas Market paper pad by Carta Bella. 
• I colored in the image using BIC Intensity Markers.
• I had some holiday stickers from Target that I picked up last year.  I adhered the sticker to a piece of red cardstock, cut with a circle die, and then I adhered this to center using foam tape.  
• Lastly, I adhered them to the center of each card and then added some Stickles and small crystals in the center of the small snowflakes.

Done!  Those are my 4 ideas for November.  I'd love to know which card is your favorite, if you have one.  

For a more detailed step by step, with photos - 

Card No. 1

Card No. 2

Card No. 3

Card No. 4

And for the other Crafty Elves's posts - 

Debra - Meticulosity
Lisa - Life of a BZscrapper

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today.  I hope everyone that celebrates it has a great Thanksgiving.  There is a lot to give thanks for this year.  I'll be back next month with more holiday cards.  So, until next time - 

Hugs from Brasil!

~Michael