This past summer, I purchased a Crafter’s Companion bundle of double cut Edge’ables and I put them aside to attempt to figure out how to use them until yesterday. So the first issue I have is that I do not have a Gemini die cutting machine but rather use my Big Shot which has a smaller cutting plate than I believe the Gemini does. With that said I think these dies were made for not only their machine using special plates and for larger card sizes especially since these are double cut dies that will cut the image on one side of the die on the edge of your card to create the edgeable design and then you can use another color cardstock on the other side of the die and it will cut out both sides of the die with one pass. Well that’s pretty neat but until I figure out a suitable sandwich for my Big Shot I’ll will be using old cutting plates to cut the die twice. Sorry for babbling…hope you can figure out what I meant:) OK after saying all of that, I can use opinions on the top card which is a regular A2 size and the one below which was trimmed to a slightly smaller A2 size to match the die ends.

My next dilemma is where do I put my inside sentiment or message?

As you can see not a lot of room to write a personal message or include a stamped one. I would add a sentiment to the front and maybe use plain not patterned paper. So I am looking forward for all your advice and opinions.

Hugs from a snowy preview of what’s to come later this week in Pennsylvania.

One of my Christmas cards that didn’t make the mail this year but will definitely be kept for next holiday season. My background was a very subdued glitter that I added some GKD crystalline drops for snow and popped in some gold glitter cardstock to illuminate the lamplight. The die used is Memory Box Lamplight Tree Collage that I picked up from Dies R Us this season. The sentiment is one of SimonSaysStamp preprinted sentiment strips. I believe there other Memory Box dies that will coordinate with this one….maybe next year.

My card will be entered into the Dies R Us Challenge: Challenge #158 Christmas and to include a metal die.

Thanks for looking. We are possibly getting SNOW middle of next week. Yikes, I’m getting my snow shovel ready for duty. Have a great day everyone.

Sending my niece in Florida a winter birthday card this year for her Christmas Eve birthdate just in case she misses the cold and sometimes snowy weather in Pennsylvania. For my card today, I am also entering it into the fun As You See It Challenge: Challenge #240 Recipe for Winter Fun which must include the following:

My card base is a side fold card that creates a square focal point. I found a tutorial for this card on Splitcoaststampers and thought I’d give it a try. You cut a piece of cardstock 4-1/4 x 11″ and score at the 5-1/2″ mark and again at 6-3/4″ then fold in half and back on itself taping or gluing the scored sections together leaving the opening 4-1/4 x 4-1/4. It may be easier to check out the tutorial on Splitcoaststampers if you are interested in this fold.

To make my recipe, I included patterned paper (patterned paper check) from my stash mounted on red cardstock (red check), added some gold twine (twine or ribbon check) to the side sealed portion, die cut some snowflakes and layered them in the center of the card (snowflakes check), and die cut Happy Birthday (die cut check) to complete my recipe for this challenge and my card.

Thanks for stopping by today. Another fun challenge over at the As You See It Challenge blog.

So I have two first Christmas cards to create and I chose the puppy card over the boy card to make. I’m not sure if my priorities were right in that decision but Baby Bill will get his card too and I think I’m going to use this same design. Thank you to our Buddy Johanna for sharing her recessed panel card and a link with instructions on how to create. I wasn’t able to add a link to Johanna’s card unfortunately but it’s one to take a peek at. So my card for today is for a dear girlfriend’s puppy Bailey.

The puppy was stamped using Sweet n Sassy’s Woof You stamp set, colored in with pencils. Note to self do not attempt to color in low lighting while watching a movie otherwise you may choose purple instead of brown for the nose and tail. Used some dies for the sentiments and the numbers as well as the snowflake and dry embossed the snowflake swirls. Bailey’s scarf was paper pieced and her hat was from Buddy Johanna.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. TGIF! for those that need it for me it will be TGFW Thank Goodness for Wine tonight! LOL!!

Sending Stenciled, Shiny, Silver, Stars and Snowflakes. The challenge for the Just Add Ink #533 Challenge by Tina is as you may have guessed it — Just Add S to your card. Wanting to cover all of my “S” bases, I began by die cutting a SSS Felicity Snowflake die in white cardstock, then using the Memory Box Winter Snowflakes Stencil I sponge some color on to my layer which was mounted on Shiny metallic cardstock from Recollections. My Silver embossed Star comes from SU’s Christmas Classic stamp set and was punched out with the SU Star punch. My small stamped sentiment is from SSS Christmas 3×4 stamp set and then for a pop of color I added red raffia to my star and die cut Avery Elle’s peace in left over red plaid strip.

It’s Small Business Saturday so if you need to go out and shop let’s support them. I’ll be stopping by my local bakery and market later today.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Have a great day and please Stay Safe.

The challenge with The Sisterhood of Crafters blog is a Shaped Projects challenging us to create anything but a rectangle shaped card project. I started with a regular A2 rectangular card then added the curved shape using Pretty Pink Posh eyelet border die. After cutting through both layers of the card base, I created the same layer using some plaid patterned paper. My Little Reindeer is a Gerda Steiners Designs stamp set which was colored in using some SU colored pencils. The image was fussy cut and mounted on a Spellbinders nestabilities circle die and I curved the two sentiment strips for the front and inside is rest of the sentiment Christmas along with a bird and penguin. Cute set and a fun challenge. Of course I smudged the “HAVE” a bit. The yellow star above Little Reindeer was hanging and glued down to the same location as the “have”. I should have attempted to remove the glue a little better but oops…accidents happen.

A fun challenge and I won’t show my first attempt using a tee-pee card…..turned out ok but with no rhyme or reason to it.

Happy Thanksgiving 2020! A year to remember or maybe forget!

Please stay safe.