Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas - June 2026 Edition

It's the 25th of the month and time for the Crafty Elves to share the Christmas Cards we made in June!  Be sure after you leave here you head on over to Debra's and Michael's places to see what they've created for you for today!

It seems I'm always creating with little time these days and this was no different.  But luckily I had this awesome foiled background to start with!

I used a sheet of rainbow foil left over from foiling a toner card front and ran it through my Fuse with a white Polyglaze sheet.  Why not rainbow for Christmas??

I wanted the background to be the star of the show so I kept it simple... a sentiment cut using a Stamplorations die and some foiled gel print in my stash.  I cut a second sentiment from white glitter paper and offset it slightly to give some definition over that wild background.  I also cut the huge snowflake from A Jillian Vance Design from the white glitter paper and popped both up onto the background.

That's me for today!  I hope you enjoyed your visit and don't forget to check out what Debra and Michael have for you!  It's a very short hop and won't take long!

Thanks for stopping!

 

Happy New Year 2025 - A Jillian Vance Design

I'm up on the blog over at A Jillian Vance Design with a New Year celebration.

Hope you'll join me there for all of the details.

Thanks for stopping... hope you'll come back again soon.

 

A Flurry of Snowflakes - Therm O Web Release

This week there was a new release of Toner Card Fronts including a pack of wintery sentiments and some fab new foils!

I have three cards up on the blog using the card fronts and a Deco Foil that is coming soon.

Along with foils from the shop and some beautiful dies.

It's all about the snowflakes for this post!

There are even some yummy caffeinated sentiments-you know how I love those!

Hope you'll head over there and join me for the details!

Thanks for stopping!  Come again soon.

 

Jillian Vance - Snowflake Greetings

I'm up on the blog over at A Jillian Vance Design!

I'm sharing a way you can get a solid Deco Foil transfer over a gel print!  

Hope you'll join me there for links and details.

 

Let It Snow - A Jillian Vance Design and Deco Foil

I am up on the blog over at A Jillian Vance Design with these two!

A card and a tag with lots of foil-alike yet different!

Hope you'll join me over there for links and details!

Thank you so much for stopping!  Please do come again soon!

 

Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas - June 2022 Edition

My first card today is using one of the adorable pups from the Art Impressions Santa Paws stamp set.  I was sitting at my workspace and there he was leftover from another month... all colored up and ready to take his place on a card!

I decided this gel print I made using the Frosty Flakes stencil from Miss Ink Stamps and acrylic paint and added a sentiment from an MFT set and the Happy Holidays die cut from MFT (both retired) along with a little snow drift in my stash.

My next three cards are using images and sentiments from the Jaded Blossom Hipster Christmas stamp set.

I used another gel print made with watercolors and the Swirls Stencil from Rubbernecker stamps the Medium Stitched Snowflake from A Jillian Vance Design behind him.

And for the last two, I used two more background with the Swirls Stencil and layered a cool Plaid Die Cut over the top that I cut from Toner Paper that I Deco Foiled.   

And for this one I used the Bold Snowflake die from AJVD and the Stitched Flag Dies from Kat Scrappiness. 

For this one I used the Medium Snowflake again.

And that's me for today!  I hope you enjoyed it!  And now be sure to head on over to Michael and Debra's blogs and see what they have for you this month!

Before you go let's see who is the winner of some Happy Mail from last month's post:

Verna!  Send me your address at bzscrapper66 at gmail dot com so I can get you your Happy Mail!

We're playing again!  Leave me some love here and I'll choose someone next month to receive a small gift from me!  Thanks so much for coming and come again soon!

 

Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas - April 2022 Edition

It's the 25th of the month and time for the Crafty Elves to share the Christmas Cards we made this month!  I've been playing with foil all month.. mostly with my gel prints and acrylic paint.  For today I've used foil with acrylics and some good old Transfer Gel from Deco Foil because sometimes you just want some good, solid, dependable shine!

So here we go!

I made this background using a Newton's Nook stencil and applied some Deco Foil Transfer Gel Blanco... blanco because that's what I grabbed... could have used the clear.. but either way, I let it dry and ran it through my Minc... 

And bam!  Look at that pretty rainbow snowfall!

Here's how I made these first two backgrounds:

Just some good old fashioned foiling using a Snowflake Stencil from Newton's Nook and some Thermoweb Transfer Gel and Rainbow Foil!

The snowflakes I'm using this month were gel prints that I decofoiled with some used foil sheets and cut with dies from A Jillian Vance Design and Lawn Fawn.

Here's how I did that:

So pretty, right!?

The thing about foiling on a gel print is it's always unexpected... and some won't turn out the way you want, but you can always use them for die cutting!

I used the same stencil for this one, but just a simple inked background.... one of the beautiful foiled snowflakes that fit perfectly in the center of that cool MFT Happy Holidays die.  I don't think that one is around any more but you can get a Merry Christmas one here!

I think I must have a thing for purple and aqua for Christmas this year....

And this one... well... a digi printed on a very old gel print and then foiled in rainbow... yeah.  The Unique Snowflake digi from Angie Blom ... one of my very faves...

I just added the die cut Merry, cut from foil cardstock and stacked to the front and that was that!

And finally...

We colored this cutie from Paper Nest Dolls at Copic Bootcamp last December and decided it was time to get him on a card.  So I foiled a snowy background using the Tiny Snowfall stencil from Miss Ink.

I threw a few of the foiled snowflakes around for a fun and simple card.

And that's me for today!

Be sure to head on over to Michael and Debra's places to see what they've created for you today! 

And before you go, let's see who has won some Happy Mail from last month's post:

Sue D!   Snail mail me your address to bzscrapper66 at gmail dot com so I can get something in the mail to you!

Thanks so much to everyone who stopped and left some love!  See you again next month!

 

A Jillian Vance Design - Good Tidings

I'm up on the blog over at A Jillian Vance Design with this one!  Hope you'll hop on over there and join me!

Thanks so much for stopping and hope you'll come again soon!

 

A Jillian Vance Design - Joy and Peace!

I'm up on the blog over at A Jillian Vance Design with some Bold Snowflakes!

You can hop on over there and join me for links and details!

Thanks so much for stopping and hope you'll come again soon!

 

A Jillian Vance Design - Christmas Is Magic

I'm up on the blog over at A Jillian Vance Design with this one!  Loving the Just BeClaus stamp set!

Hop on over there and join me for links and details!

Thanks so much for stopping and come again soon!

 

Crafty Elves Countdown to Christmas - May 2021 Edition

Merry Christmas!  It's that time when the Crafty Elves share the Christmas cards we made this month!  After you leave here you'll want to hop around and see Debra, Michael and our special guest Crafty Elf, Crystal and what they've created!

Here's how I was inspired:

I'm lucky to be guesting with Joy Clair Stamps this month and as soon as I saw these adorable bears in the Making Memories digital set I knew they'd be perfect for this month's Christmas Cards!

The set has three adorable bears and some cute sentiments and they are so fun to color and easy to fussy cut.  This snowflake is from Paper Smooches.

I picked my papers and then colored these cuties to match.  These are some very "vintage" papers from CTMH.  These lacy snowflakes were perfect for this one with the lacy feel.

I used my favorite stitched rectangles and photo frame from AJVD for all of today's cards.

I love this singing bear and that mini bold snowflake from AJVD.

And the sentiments were easy to cut by hand as well!  

For my last one, I created another stripey background using the Sentiment Strips from A Jillian Vance Design like my rainbow card from yesterday.  I added the Bold Snowflake and Merry & Bright sentiment for a quick and easy card (don't you love that pretty font)!

And the colors I used....

Thanks so much for stopping!  Before you leave I have a winner of some Happy Mail from last month's post:

Karen!  Email me at bzscrapper66 at gmail dot com so I can send you some Happy Mail!

We're playing again this month!  Leave me some love for your chance to win!

Thank you so much for stopping!  Don't forget to check out my fellow Crafty Elves places (links at the beginning of the post) and see what they have for you today!  And please do come again soon!