Christmas Icons Merry With Friends Card by Lexa

Hello everyone!  Lexa here today with more inspirations for your Christmas cards. I can't believe it's November already, Christmas is around the corner. This card is inspired by some pretty wrapping paper.

I started with a piece of 4"x 5.5" watercolor paper, and stamped some images from Christmas Icons with Tattered Rose Distress Ink (or you can use light color ones you have for no-line watercoloring) I colored all the images with my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor palette. This step took a while but it was so much fun at the same time. I choose classic Christmas color tones this time, red, green and gold. While I was doing some coloring, I always tried to keep the color chart in my head so that I keep in track. That's my trick. After finished with all the images, I colored the gap in between with gold watercolor. Believe me, it's so much prettier in real life. I try my best to capture the shine and how sparkly it is.

I die-cut the Merry Word die three times on a white cardstock and one time on the red one. I stacked and adhered all of them together, so it's thick enough to give a dimension to my card. To accompany the word merry, I used Merry Sentiments and gold embossed it on a strip of black cardstock. I'm happy with the result. Last but not least, I tie a white twine and a wooden button for an embellishment.

I hope you like and get inspired by my card. Thank you so much for stopping by.

Have a wonderful day!

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Mug Hugs Reindeer Hot Cocoa Card with Vanessa

Hi! Vanessa here with a fun shaker card using Mug Hugs with various other sets! I like to dress up those fun mug images of the set. Here I used Christmas Icons to create a Christmas mug.

I can't help but use plaid patterned paper for Christmas cards!  Here I die-cut a circle window from the panel of patterned paper, adhered a piece of clear cardstock behind it and backed it with fun foam. Then I filled the window with sequins and die-cut stars (using the star border die) and adhered the shaker element to the white card base. 

I stamped the "Christmas" and adhered the "merry" that I had die-cut from pink cardstock. Now I stamped the mug and the reindeer head, colored it with Copics and die-cut it with the matching die. Finally, I adhered the mug to the top of my shaker window. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful week!

Vanessa