I Brake for Rudolph!

Hello and happy Saturday!

Today I'm sharing one final Christmas card. 

I made this for my daughter.

She's away at school and will be home by the end of the week but I know how she likes to get mail so this will go in the mailbox Monday morning.

I've used the reindeer from

HOLIDAY SQUARES SET OF 4

On the inside I used Merry Christmas from Every Day Phrases

I just love bling so I added some Wink of Stella to his nose (though it doesn't show well in the photo) and some yellow stickles to the stars.  He has the cutest face ever!!

I Brake for Snowmen!

Hello and happy Saturday!

Today I'm sharing a wintry card with you.  Not all cards like this have to be for Christmas.  I think this could easily be a birthday card for someone with a winter birthday.  It's also perfect as a hello for someone you don't always get to see.

I've used two stamps from I Brake For Stamps.

SNOWMEN TEXT

HOLIDAY SQUARES SET OF 4

I trimmed around the snowman because I only wanted him to be "peeking" from the side of the card.  I almost felt like the verse was the star of this card along with the snowflakes.  The snowman is just the end result of the falling snow.

Edith brakes for WINE!!

Hello and happy Saturday!

Today I'm sharing a wine gift box that I made. 

It holds two of the little single serve bottles.

I used 3 different stamps on it...all from I Brake For Stamps!

HOLIDAY SQUARES SET OF 4

WINE GETS BETTER

SANTA'S ELF, EDITH

The fun sentiment says "Wine gets better with age...i get better with wine"

I made a very similar box a few days ago and people have been asking how I made it so I decided to recreate it and make a tutorial to go along with it.

Supplies:

One 12x12 sheet of cardstock

patterned paper

stamps and embellishments of your choice

glue or double sided tape

  Cut 2 pieces of cardstock 3"x6"

One piece 4 3/4" x 6"

One piece 4 3/4" x 9"

Score the 2 larger pieces at the 2" mark across the width.

Score the side pieces at the 2" mark across the width and 1/2" on each side length wise.

Cut the patterned paper.

Two pieces 2"x 3 7/8"

One piece 4 1/2" x 3 3/4"

One piece 4 1/2" x  8 3/4"

Glue the printed paper onto the cardstock above the score line.

On the two small side panels I cut a notch so that I could fold it.

Glue the side panels where the notch was.

Now they're ready to glue the front and back on.

Adhere the front panel by placing the sides on it and carefully lining them up.

Here it is with both sides glued to the front.

Now you can place the back panel inside.  The place where it's scored will be on the inside bottom and will help reinforce the bottom by adding another layer.

Now you're ready to decorate it!

I Brake for Snowmen!

Hello and happy Saturday!

Today I'm sharing a Christmas card with you!

I used Holiday Squares Set of 4 on my card.  Let's face it...no matter how old we get we all love snowmen!

You can find more great winter/holiday stamps at I Brake For Stamps.

The sentiment is from EVERY DAY PHRASES.

I Brake for Reindeers ...

Hello IBFS fans !!!

It's Crystal and I am back with another Christmas in July card , I hope you have gotten inspired to play along , the end goal is to be ahead of the Christmas card game ... To today we have a reindeer helping in this game ..lol get it Reindeer games .. okay maybe I better stick to card making and leave the funnies to the comedians ..lol

Today's card is a shaker card and the image I am using is from the Holiday squares set of 4 and I am using the cute reindeer .I stamped the base layer of my card with the image and I colored him with copic markers , then cut a top layer 1/8" smaller cut a rounded square  then I embossed with a snowflake folder and then ran chalk over the raised snowflakes , i added a window sheet to the backside of my top layer and the used two layers of double stick foam tape around the window I have created , I added seed beads sequins on top of my image and them top with top layer of my card . I added a die cut snowflake and my die cut sentiment .

Come back next week to see another Christmas card in my Christmas in July celebration ...

I hope this has inspired you to start on some Christmas cards and we will all be ahead of the Christmas card game ..lol

for this image and so many more visit the IBFS store  .

Crystal Lopez – Design Team member for IBFS