I got this adorable mouse image in a stamped image swap and colored it with Copic markers. Love the blending! I cut him out with a craft knife so I could mount him with foam tape over this pine background. The background has wonderful glittering on the berries and the branch tips.

I added some 'ornament' paper to the background along with some woodgrain paper borders and another piece as a stamped banner. I rounded the corners of the text block and popped it up on foam dots.

Ddd

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I cut this picture of a nativity out of an old quilting magazine. Hey, I take 'em anywhere I can get 'em.

I pulled blue from Mary's gown to choose the background paper. It had these wonderful swirling snowflakes on it so I added  stars to each of them to turn it into a night scene.

The illustration was mounted on black and cut to a thin border. I popped it up on foam dots. Then I added a star on the illustration and a thick clear acrylic text sticker with a background to match the folded base.

Ddd

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These two circles were illustrations off of separate cards last year. The blues batched and I thought it was fun to combine them.

I started with a wood-grain paper background and placed the two circles. The angel is pupped up on foam dots. The andel already had gold sprinkles so I just added gold Stickles to all the stars with the church.

The greeting is a clear acrylic thick sticker. I mounted it on green patterned paper and popped it up on foam as well.

Ddd

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More bargain book illustrations...

I mounted this one on black for a very skinny border so it would show up better. Then I mounted it 3D over patterned paper and some table scraps that picked up on the colors.

The text is a clear sticker.

Ddd

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Another page lifted from the bargain book. This only required some simple layering so I made sure they were very interesting papers. I also added a bow at the bottom and a star brad on the top.

Since the illustration has test in it I did not add any more to the card.

Ddd

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I went to a used book store and picked up a mini-book of Christmas illustrations by Mary Engelbreit. Cost? 25 cents! Purpose? Tear it apart and use the artwork on cards. Which brings us to today's card.

I used a yellow card base and covered the front with the patterned paper. Then I cut a hole in the front and mounted the artwork inside.

I stamped the greeting on a piece of matching yellow and rounded two of the corners. Then I added three green rhinestones.

Ddd

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Totally odd colors for Christmas, huh? But I scrapped out the wreath from an actual card so I guess somebody 'professional' thought it was OK. Ah, validation!

I used nested scallop dies to turn the printed wreath into a cut wreath and added an organza bow over the printed one.

I used a printed green background over a purple folded cardstock base and added a text rub-on. The wreath is mounted 3D.

A little odd, maybe, but I think it looks elegant anyway.

Ddd

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Recovered from one of last year's cards, this nativity has beautiful, rich colors. I used a nestability labels die to cut it and emboss the edges. I used a different diw to cut and emboss a backing piece and mounted them 3D.

More of that awesome gold on gold text paper layered onto blue cardstock forms the backdrop for them.

Ddd

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This is the image from the other half of the sheet I used yesterday. Same color palette so I used a reddish woodgrain from the same 6 x 6 paper pack.

I even used the same base card and the same rub-on greeting.

Ddd

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The new punch-out 3D sheets I got have wonderful images for Christmas. This one suited so well the plaid background that I had from a recent 6 x 6 pad I picked up.

It's difficult to tell, but the lamp with all the berries and the bow as well as all the curled portions around the edge of the scroll are 3D.

I used a rub-on for the greeting.

Ddd

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Well, there's a little stamping on it! Actually, the holly is from the stamp catalog I got at Goodwill and cut up. I colored it with Copic markers and glazed the berries with Diamond Glaze and covered the golden background with Stickles. I cut with a circle die and layered on a green cardstock cut with a label die.

These were mounted with foam tape over the checked scrapbook paper and this over white cardstock.

Now to the stamping... just the greeting, I'm afraid.

Ddd

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This is another of the 'victorian' die cut images. I backed this one with the golden brown and fronted it with a die cut cream cardstock.

A stamped greeting and three stamped snowflakes finish the theme.

Ddd

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An overall pattern of red and green boughs and pinecones made a nice wreath by cutting with two Nestability scallop dies. I added an organza ribbon tied in a bow and mounted it to the copper cardstock oval with foam dots.

I placed these onto the checkered scrapbook paper over green cardstock and finished off with a gold peel-off greeting.

Ddd

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I think these globes were originally 'ornaments' on another card. A die cut was used to punch them out and they just 'belonged' on more of the gold on gold paper.

The text is a clear sticker.

Ddd

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What a sweet card this made. I cut the bunny with a Nestability die and layered, with foam dots, over checked scrapbook paper. The base card in cream matches the main illustration.

I added a gold peel-off for the greeting.

Ddd

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With a snowglobe illustration from one card - center cut out - and a snowy scene from another, I created an new card front and mounted on blue cardstock.

I added Stickles to the snow and the windows. The poinsettia at the upper right and the text at the lower left are clear stickers from a coordinating sheet.

Ddd

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Red, gold, red, gold, done!

... with a little bid of foam tape added in.

Ddd

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The trees and the penguin are separate 'stamps' which I cut from my Goodwill-find catalog. I colored them with Copic markers and cut them out for some layering. The snow drifts in the background are drawn with markers and then all of the white 'snow' and lettering was done with gel pen.

A green card base echoes the color from the trees.

Ddd

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I've held on to this little illustration for years - I love the simplicity with the only color on the wreath. I used a Nestability label die to cut and emboss the edges.

More of the gold on gold text paper was mounted on red folded card for the base and the illustration is popped up on foam dots.

Ddd

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Another departure from the traditional colors is this acid green card - which, once again, doesn't take a photo well.

Trust me, this card is bright and vibrant from top to bottom! The snowman was punched out with glitter already covering him. A moss GREEN diecut was stamped with the greeting, and snowflakes stamped all about.

Ddd

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