Monday, October 28, 2013

Fifty Christmas Cards - Batch Five: Wonderful Wreath

I'm really pleased with how this next batch of cards came out. There's eight cards, six of which were done with the Wonderful Wreath single wood mount stamp from Stampin' Up!  Brace yourself for a lot of pictures!

Card 1:


Crumb Cake card base, Season of Style Designer Series Paper, Expressions Thinlits die, Old Olive ink, Cherry Cobbler Candy Dots and seam binding, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, Rotary trimmer with Small Scallop blade

Card 2:



Cherry Cobbler card base, Gold Foil sheet, Season of Style Designer Series Paper, Expressions Thinlits die, Old Olive ink, Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details, Crumb Cake seam binding (for my first ever triple bow!), Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, Rotary trimmer with Small Scallop blade

Card 3:



Crumb Cake card base, Season of Style Designer Series Paper, Expressions Thinlits die, Circles Collection Framelits dies, Gumball Green ink, Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details, Word Window and Modern Label punches, retired Cherry Cobbler textured ribbon, retired gold cord, retired Snowflakes embossing folder, Rotary trimmer with Small Scallop blade

Card 4:



Cherry Cobbler card base, last year's Snow Festival designer series paper, Tags 4 You stamp set, Circles Collection Framelits dies, Gumball Green and Cherry Cobbler ink, Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details, Cherry Cobbler seam binding, Petals-a-Plenty embossing folder, Rotary trimmer with Small Scallop blade

Card 5:



Crumb Cake card base, Snow Festival Designer Series Paper, Expressions Thinlits die, Old Olive ink, Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details, Crystal Ice Ice Stickles, Cherry Cobbler textured ribbon, retired Merry Minis Punch Pack, Rotary trimmer with Small Scallop blade

Card 6:



Gumball Green card base, Gold Foil sheet, Snow Festival Designer Series Paper, Expressions Thinlits die, Gumball Green ink, Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details, Rotary trimmer with Small Scallop blade

Card 7:


Crumb cake card base, Snow Festival DSP, Cherry Cobbler ink, Cherry Cobbler textured ribbon, ribbon slide, Stampin' Dimensionals

Card 8:


Crumb cake card base, Snow Festival DSP, Adorning Accent Edgelit, Cherry Cobbler ink, Stampin' Dimensionals

Inside greetings for cards 1-6 are from the current set Christmas Messages.  The greeting in the last two are from Many Merry Messages.

Sorry for such a long post -- I know most stamping blogs feature just one card a day, but I find this easier to do and it means less mailbox clutter for my subscribers.  It's unusual for me to make this many cards in a batch, so no worries, this will not become a habit!  With this post, I am caught up with everything I've made, and tonight I'll be starting a new (smaller) batch.  It's hard to believe I have only 11 more cards to go to complete this order!

So, what do you think of the cards?  Are you put off by non-current products?  Is there anything you'd like to see more of?  less of?  I'd love any feedback you have to offer!

Christmas-y Smiles,
Joyce Spear (a.k.a. StamperJoyce)
   

1 comment:

christina d said...

I love your cards. I like seeing older supplies being used. I have more retired than new so far. The colors and how you finished the cards is great.