Christmas Cards and the count down......

Okay, so there are 20 more days until Christmas and I am still making my cards, so 2-3cards a day for 20 days........that should about do it.....LOL  At this point I will make them as needed for friends.  Family can always get theirs hand delivered!  I am trying to keep them fairly simple, and light weight.  This first card is an other chip board piece, the holes were punched so I removed them, painted the tree and backed it with a gold cs, added red paint and glitter to the base and some very tiny rhinestones to the tree, and digging around in my stash found a rhinestone star for the top of the tree.  The red background paper is a stash piece that also has metallic gold showing through in places.  Ribbon and a reindeer charm finish it off.  The scan looks a little dull but it is a very bright card.

This second card was a quick and simple card.  I embossed the background paper then rubbed a gold embossing ink pad over it and added gold embossing powder.  (say what??)  When I was quite finished with the embossing thing I tinted the edges with TH Vintage Paper and Wild Honey.  The small chip board ornaments have been laying on Betsy for about 3 weeks.  I just added the J-O-Y stickers to them and mounted them on ribbon and then the card.  I guess this is the year for chip board fun.




Thanks for stopping by and looking at my cards.  I am trying to keep the blogging short until I can get a little more caught up.  Tomorrow I have to start doing some serious Christmas shopping, not to mention needing some groceries in this house..  Since I know the stores are so hectic during the day I have opted for some night time shopping, like from 7:30 to about 9 or 10.....depending on the store.  I know I'll have to make more than one trip but......Hey that's Christmas!!!

Inky Hugs