NOT Just Another Mom

I wanted to share with you one of my Christmas cards for this year. I decided on a lovely card designed by Carole Prevost. I used white card stock and Gold and Cocoa Pearl paper from Cricut. For the top layer of the white card-stock, I embossed it with my Cuttlebug. Here you can see all the pieces ready to be put together. And here they are all put together. I used white fabric paint to make the snow dots… Tagged: cards , Christmas cards , cricut , paper crafting

I was fortunate enough to earn enough points from a company for scanning my purchases to earn a gift card. As an early Christmas present for myself, I used it to purchase a heat embossing kit that included a heat gun, two embossing pens, and gold powder. Oh, my I can’t tell you how much fun it is to draw or write, sprinkle the magic powder, and then watch as it miraculously turns gold and shiny!  I made an embossed card first and wrote Merry Christmas on green card stock using the clear embossing pen. Then I used the clear and the black embossing pens over the top of the flourishes. I then added the embossing powder and ran the heat gun over and viola! Instant glitzy card…  Not too bad for a first try….  Then I decided to make my own Christmas cards for my friends and family.  I used snowflake images from design space for my Cricut. The big one is Snowflake 11 and the little one is Snowflake 2 from the Holiday Snowflakes Cartridge and are all in Cricut access. Th...

Here are some pictures of my latest Christmas cards that I've been working on. No matter how hard I try seems like I never can get everything together for Christmas time. I really wanted to have personalized Christmas ornaments and cards for everyone but I just didn't have time...I think this summer while the kids are out of school I will try to get a lot of Christmas done in July!