This or That Thursday - Santa's Delivery

Here we are already and it's Thursday again! Wow! Cary, me and many hundreds of demonstrators are all going to Vienna next week for our annual 'conference'. I must say I am really looking forward to going too! However, there's lots to do first! Today's choices are 2 that I made using in part some of the Memories and More cards. I have used a large card mat on one which has colourful spots on and added Santa and Mrs Claus dancing on the ice. They were both cut from the Designer Series Paper called Santa's Express. It has a really great selection of designs too. I completed this first one with another M & M card which I had cut around and used it for the sentiment to go on. My second card is made from a Real Red card base which I embossed the front with the Merry Melody Embossing Folder. I love embossing folders as they give such a lovely feel to a card so if  you can't see the effect, you can certainly feel it. This one I die-cut  a rectangle from the Scalloped Contours and embossed it with the Charming Landscapes embossing folder again. This time, I cut out the larger Santa and Mrs Claus from the DSP and it genuinely looks like they are having fun!

Here is the 1st card.

 

 

Here is the 2nd card.

 

 

Now it's up to you. Which do you prefer?

Tips, Tricks, Techniques Tuesday - Special cards

 Hello and thank you for joining me again. I'm so sorry for not being able to show you any cards yesterday but as Cary explained, the dentist treatment I went through was rather bad! I will be ok as it was only the dentist  but when you are left with bruises... It makes you wonder why we go to them! 😬 Anyway, this week I will be cheating a little as these were cards that I made for our recent C5 all day class. I used the stamp set called Bright Baubles along with the matching dies which are called Delicate Baubles. A really lovely set of baubles they are too. 

Now as I said all of the cards are twice the size of the normal sizes that we do and these will be going to my special friends and family members. My first card is very straightforward. I folded a piece of A4 card in half to give my C5 cards base. I then cut a piece of the dark grey paper from the Peaceful Place, Designer Series Papers. The one side of all the papers have a silver effect on them. They are stunning. No colours, just black, white, grey and silver. Perfect. 

I cut a mat of green foiled card and embossed a piece of white card with the Merry Melody embossing folder. I matted the foil and white card together and die cut some of the baubles out too. I threaded some of the Pool Party Sheer ribbon through the holes at the top and then added a few small pieces of double sided foam (Dimensionals) behind the baubles Before the ribbons were fixed behind the white and green mats.