Day 5: His and Hers Holiday Cards

It's winding down, but here's Day 5: His and Hers Holiday Cards

Here are mine:

I think it's truly difficult to have a "masculine" card, so I'm going to do a more basic and more "frilly" version. How about that?
Side note: I now really feel like I "need" embossing paste and that snowfall stencil... so beautiful in today's class. :)

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar white, misc. Bazzill cardstock, Doodlebug Design 6x6 North Pole
Stamps/Inks: Versafine - Onyx Black, HA Shadow Inks - Cornflower and Red Royal, WaltzingMouse - Ornaments 201, SSS - Merry Everything and Small Folded Banners Holiday, Versamark Ink
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Ornaments 2011, SSS - Small Folded Banner, Ranger superfine silver embossing powder, Stampin' Up/Sizzix - edgelit/framelit, Judikins Opaque white embossing powder
Misc.: Dimensional Adhesive, twine from The Twinery

Day 4: Holiday Card Class

Technique: Stretch your Holiday Stamps

Materials
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, Doodlebug Designs - North Pole 6x6 Paper Pad
Stamps/Inks: HA Shadow Inks - Pale Tomato, Red Royal, Red Raspberry; Versafine - Onyx Black, Wplus9 - Heartfelt Holiday
Cutting/Embossing: Corner Rounder, Ranger Superfine Clear Embossing Powder
Misc.: Dimensional adhesive, Lawn Fawn twine, Neat and Tangled silver sequins

Holiday Card Workshop 2013, Day 3

Day 3: Clean and Simple Holiday Stamping

 

1. Diagonal Stamping

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Rhubarb Stalk, TH Distress Inks, Versafine - Olympia Green, Lawn Fawn - Let it Snow
Cutting/Embossing: Ranger Superfine Clear Embossing powder
Misc.: Star sticker embellishment, Lawn Fawn Twine, Blizzard and Opaque White Mister Huey's Mists, Stampin' Up - washi tape

2. Masking Stencil

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Rhubarb Stalk, TH Distress Inks, HA - Sentiment
Cutting/Embossing: Circle stencil,
Misc.: XMas Red Stickles, Star sticker embellishment

A little knitting...

More Cowls

Yarn: Misti Alpaca Handpaint Chunky - Lake Superior and Boheme
Needle: 11
Pattern: Chunky Mochi Lace Cowl 

Apple Hat

Pattern: Emmett's Apple Hat
Yarn: Very Merry - BMFA Socks that Rock Mediumweight
Needle: 4
Pattern:

Day 2 continued...

I love die cutting...

Day 2: Die Cutting for Holiday Cards - Negative and Positive and Layered Die Cut Inlay

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Just Rite Clear - Large Fancy Holiday Sentiments, Memento - Paris Dusk, Impression Obsession - Textural Dots
Cutting/Embossing: Unsure of brand snowflake dies, Stamp-n-Stuff embossing powder - Winter Wonderland (opaque)
Misc.: Glitter Ritz - microfine clear and liberty blue, dimensional adhesive, twine from The Twinery, jewel embellishments

Online Card Class: Holiday Card Workshop 2013 Day 2

It's here! Day 2....
 

Holiday Die Cutting

Materials
Paper: Neenah - Solar white, Bazzil cardstock, glitter paper
Stamps/Inks: Versamark, Memento - Paris Dusk, HA sentiment, Impression Obsession Background stamp - Fluff
Cutting/Embossing: Ranger Holographic Embossing Powder, SSS mod tree craft die
Misc.: Enamel dots, dimensional adhesive, star embellishment (adhesive)

Holiday Card Workshop 2013 - Day 1 continued...Creative Insides for Holiday Cards

Day 1 actually had a few different techniques, all focusing on interesting things to do with the inside of a card. Yesterday was one of the four, so I decided to try a couple of the others today...


Unique Fold

Honestly, I tried using a pretty HA background stamp on two other attempts, and it was too messy, and I was too impatient, so I decided to just stamp a bunch of snowflakes to create my own background. Much cleaner. Much easier. The snowman card used the Colorbox white - goopy. I actually liked the Fresh Ink a lot better (and it's hard to tell that it's gray on the green background)!


Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, Neenah - Solar White
Stamps/Inks: Colorbox - Frost White, Fresh Ink - Provincial Gray, Versamark, HA - Designer Snowflakes, Waltzingmouse Stamps - 2011 Holiday Ornaments , Just Rite Clear - Large Fancy Holiday Sentiments, Paper Smooches - Swanky Snowdudes and Joyful Greetings
Cutting/Embossing: Paper Smooches - Coordinating die for Swanky Snowdudes, Ranger Superfine Silver embossing powder, Judikins Opaque white embossing powder
Misc.: Dimensional adhesive, Lawn Fawn sequins, Copic markers

Positive and Negative

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, Neenah - Solar White
Stamps/Inks: Versamark, Waltzingmouse Stamps - Alpine Christmas, Avery Elle - Holiday Fill in the Blank clear stsamps
Cutting/Embossing: PTI - Wonderful Words: Holiday Dies, Waltzingmouse coordinating dies, Judikins Opaque White Embossing Powder
Misc.: Dimensional adhesive

Holiday Card Workshop 2013

It's finally here (time to get serious about Christmas cards)! Today is Day 1 of the Online Card Class: Holiday Card Workshop 2013.

Day 1: Creative Insides for Holiday Cards
So much inspiration today - all four ideas were fantastic, but I'm just going to focus on one tonight.

"Gift Card Pocket"
Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, kraft, Neenah - Solar White, vellum
Stamps/Inks: Versamark, Memento - Tuxedo Black, Hero Arts -Shari's Tree No 3 and Miracle of the Holidays
Cutting/Embossing: Sizzix embossing folder, Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Circles, Corner Rounder, Judikins Opaque white embossing Powder
Misc.: Copic markers, yellow stickles, clear Zig Wink of Stella glitter brush, glossy accents, dimensional adhesive, washi tape, jelly roll white pen

And a little knitting:

Pattern wasn't boring, but the finishing was a pain. Nice end result, though.

Pattern: Baby Yours
Needle: 3
Size: Newborn
Yarn: Socks that Rock Medium Weight - Very Merry Green

Tiny little needles, but fast knit!

Pattern: Garter Stripe Baby Socks
Needle: 0
Size: Newborn
Yarn: Socks that Rock Medium Weight - Very Merry Green

More knitting (Christmas)

What to do when under the weather... knit!

Pattern: Lake Street Cowl
Needle: 11
Yarn: Misti Alpaca Bulky Handpainted

Pattern: Chunky Mochi Lace Cowl
Needle: 11
Yarn: Misti Alpaca Bulky Handpainted (Red Rover)

Pattern: Felted Christmas Stocking
Needle: 10.5
Yarn: Cascade 220

90 Minute Crash Dash and a LOT of Knitting

Here's a little card that I came up with for the Hero Arts Flickr Group's 90 Minute Challenge.
The Challenge: 
1. Use snowflakes.
2. Use the colors blue and any neutrals - kraft, white, cream, gray/silver and of course black.
3. Make it in the shape of a tag.
4. Use a HA product - stamp, die, ink, whatever.
5. Tag your card - quickcard72
My Card: 

Materials
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, DP
Stamps/Inks: TH Distress Inks - Faded Jeans, Shaded Lilac, Salty Ocean, Tumbled Glass; HA - Shadow Ink - Tide Pool, Versamark, Fresh Ink - Provincial Gray, Hero Arts - Designer Snowflakes and Message Bursts
Cutting/Embossing: PTI - tag die, Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Circles
Misc.: Dimensional adhesive, pearl embellishments, ribbon from Michael's, Perfect Pearl mist

Knitting for MY baby (photos are unblocked):

Pattern: Little Coffee Bean Cardigan
Yarn: Rowan RYC DK Silk Wool DK Brownstone and Lime Wash
Needles: 6/7
Size: 3 mos

Pattern: Magic Coffee Baby Hat
Yarn: Rowan RYC DK Silk Wool DK Brownstone and Lime Wash
Needles: 6
Size: Newborn
Pattern: Newborn Mittens
Yarn: Rowan RYC DK Silk Wool DK Brownstone and Lime Wash
Needles: 6
Size: Newborn

Pattern: Cozy Little Toes
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock lightweight (colorway - Lucky) - and I supplemented for the toes, which you can probably tell more obviously b/c of light box and white background. It's not really that dramatic in real life, and they're for me, so they're fine :).
Needles: 1
Size: Newborn