Welcome to the Joyful Stars blog hop for December

If you read my previous post, you read that we create a card for each of the residents at retirement community that we "adopted".  Hopefully we bring them as much joy as they bring us!  I created another batch of cards using the Custom Ornament thin cuts.

Custom Ornament Thin Cuts Z3533

Completed card using Candy Apple cardstock

With the thin cut set you can cut a base (I did this with the gold foil paper).  You can also choose to cut the other portions of the ornament with different cardstock or patterned paper.  I wanted a simple elegant card so I simply nested the pieces and ran it through my Bigshot once.  In order to be frugal,
I cut the red mat piece at 4 x 5 1/4.  The easiest way for me to do this was to nest the thin cuts on the Bigshot plate with the cutting sides facing up.  I then placed the mat piece of cardstock and then the other Bigshot plate (thus cutting in an upward direction).   This is not a requirement, just a choice I made.

Card pieces showing that the ornament was cut from the mat

Nested thin cuts to cut a single ornament

Since I was making a batch of these cards I was actually able to run two red mats through my bigshot and the thin cuts still gave me a nice clean cut even with each of the fine decorative cuts in the ornament.

Snowflakes embossing folder Z3518 was used on the White daisy piece.  I was away at the time I made these cards and only had black ink.  I would have used Candy Apple Ink if I had in with me for the Merry Christmas sentiment on the front.

Your next hop is to Joyce's blog.  Enjoy!

Welcome to the Joyful Stars November blog hop

My friends and I "adopted" a retirement community in our town and we make a holiday card for each resident (based on the holiday they celebrate).  My contribution this year is this card made with the Buttoned Up thin cuts Z3524.  I was able to make 16 rather quickly.

I used:

Candy Apple cardstock (4.25 x 5.5)
Black cardstock cut with thin cut
White cardstock I started with a white piece 4.25 x 2.25 and just positioned the wavy thin cut as close to the bottom as possible.  The fur trim was (1.5 x 2)
Silver paper for the buckle

Work from the top down.  I didn't cover the entire beard with adhesive because I wanted to slip the fur trim underneath it in the center.  I then added the black belt covering a bit of the fur trim.

Your next hop is to Joyce's blog.  Enjoy!

Welcome to the Joyful Stars blog hop for September!

Hi All!  It has been such a long time since I posted the last time but I am back!

I was playing with the new Hawthorn paper and created a few layouts.  With the scraps remaining I made the following cards.

Hopefully tomorrow I can retake and repost better photos.

Your next hop is over to Joyce.