World Of Michael Trent: Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas - October 2022 Edition

Hello everyone and welcome to the October 2022 Edition of the Crafty Elves' Countdown to Christmas. I took last month off to work on a big project for someone in town. It's still not finished but I found time this month to make 3 fun cards using 1 retired stamp from Impression Obsession.

If you are just joining me/us, on the 25th of each month, the Crafty Elves - me, Debra of Meticulosity, Lisa of Life of a BZScrapper, post up to 4 fun Christmas/holiday card ideas. And this month we are thrilled to welcome a new Crafty Elf to the group - Misty aka The Jolly Fat Elf. Misty was a Guest Crafty Elf once and, since she loves to make cards - especially Christmas cards, we asked her to join us. And she said YES! So now, by the time November comes, you will have even more inspiration and ideas for your holiday card-making.

A photo/link to the other Crafty Elves' projects, as well as links to all of our social media pages, are at the end of this blog post.

Now...on to my card ideas.

If you would like to see how I made the card in real-time, I even made a video this month -

To make this card I used the Holstein Cow stamp from Impression Obsession. This image is retired BUT...Impression Obsession has this Cow Farm digital stamp that would also be great. I have already used the Holstein Cow stamp on some cards I made for World Food Day, which you can check out HERE or over on my IG page.

I used a 4" x 5.25" stitched rectangle die to cut a piece of white cardstock. Then I used my Misti to stamp the cow image on it. This cow is so big that I could not fully stamp him and, if I do, I will not be able to use the speech bubble.

I made an A2 card base using red cardstock. Then I adhered a piece of white fun foam to the back of the image and then to the card front.

I adhered a Santa hat 3D sticker that I had in my stash to the cow. I bought these at Hobby Lobby a few years ago but they are still available this year. A Santa Hat die would look great too.

Then I made my sentiment on the computer, printed them out, and used a speech bubble die to cut one. I put some foam tape behind the speech bubble but, before I adhered it to the card front, I distressed the edges with black ink so it would pop off the card.

Regarding speech bubble dies - I used one from a retired MFT/Die-namics stamp/die set called Say What. I show another card in the video where I used the Speech Bubbles set from Xcut.

Now...you could just stop here and the card would look fantastic. But I wanted to add just a few things. So, I added some red enamel dots to the card front and two small googly eyes to the cow. Cuz it's fun!