Christmas Cards

I managed to finish this year’s Christmas cards this weekend.  Well…I use the term ‘finish’ loosely.  They are still not addressed and I am still waiting for the photos to put inside (and of course, I ordered the wrong size photos and will have to crop them when they arrive).  But at least the cards are made, signed and otherwise ready to go.

I made two designs (I didn’t have enough red cardstock to make enough of the first design – poor planning on my part), both very simple:

This card is CASEd from Stampin’ Up! Regionals – as soon as I saw it demonstrated on stage, I knew that it was going to be my Christmas card!  The ‘tree’ is dry embossed on vellum using a brass template with a swirl design.  It has some glitter around the edges that doesn’t really show up in this photo.  I was going to add a Christmas sentiment, but I think it looks nice enough just the way it is.

My other simple design:

This card is also CASEd from SplitCoastStamper user TexasGrammy.  I did a similar CASE of her card back in a previous post and I liked it so much, I decided to use it as an alternate design. 

Now, where are those photos I ordered?….