I made far too many Christmas cards of a single design this year. My goal for 2022 is to make a set of Christmas cards each month, so there's not a big rush at the end. I post a few as I go along if I create one for a challenge, but typically wait to post until I know they've been received. So today, I thought I'd do a Christmas card roundup of some of the cards I particularly liked. And, in fact, there's still one challenge looking for Christmas cards.
First of all, two cards created with one of my favorite 3-D embossing folders: the poinsettia from Altenew.
This was was embossed with red paper and lightly swiped with a white pigment ink. I tried a couple of variations with this technique, but this was the only one I liked enough to make into a card.
I made two or three variations of this card with the same embossing folder and a red frame from The Greetery.
This card went to one of my best friends, a single man. It got posted on Instagram, but not here. I dry-embossed the frame and added the gold embossed deer and sentiment to a Nordic Circle die from The Greetery that a friend had die cut for me.
I used this oversized Joy stamp from Waffleflower on several cards--all a slight variation of this one.
Another card made with a 3-D embossing folder and a sentiment from The Stamp Market. I should have made a few more of these.
This was one of the cards I made early on, and I made a set of them. It's a set I've owned from Altenew for awhile, but never found a design I was happy with. Stamped on white and then die cut with a pierced frame.
This was the biggest set of cards I made--25 in all. There were four different snowflakes so I could die cut them in sets so it went pretty quickly. I did the die cutting at home, and stamped and assembled them in November when we were visiting Sarah.
And one variation on the card above, I only made one or two of these because they required embossing of the sentiment which takes more time. I already know the first set of cards I'm making for next year and they do require embossing, but if I'm working well ahead of time, it shouldn't be a problem.
All the following cards were made in one session with a group of pre-made tags and die cuts from 2020. Several of them use a new tag die from The Greetery that die cuts two tags at a time. I have more ideas for those tags for 2022.
And my favorite of the bunch:
There's still one of my favorite challenges open for Christmas cards, so I'll be posting to AAA Cards, and then calling this season of card making done.