These square 3D images require a slightly larger card but that lends some elegance as well.I used gold Stickles on the ribbons on both images as a first step. The left card has the image popped up on foam dots over a circle patterned paper and mossy green cardstock. The oval 3D greeting sticker got an added cranberry colored border.

The second card uses dark green cardstock and a tiny white poinsettia print paper. The image is mounted flat to the paper but the greeting sticker is 3D.

Ddd

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Think we're about done with Christmas cards? Not really - I have enough to last to the end of the month!

This foil image looked pretty flat until I added green Stickles to all the green parts of the trees and gold to the lanterns. Zippity Zingo! I used a corner round punch on the image and popped it up on foam dots over a plaid background. 

After I stamped the greeting at the bottom I added green glitter to the green stripes in the plaid. Blue folded cardstock makes up the base.

Ddd

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This 3D image was so simple I tried to give it a little extra zing in the treatment. This starts with a green border and tiny white button brads at the corners. This is popped up on foam dots over the background paper - more of the swirling snow. This time, though, I stamped snowflakes all over the paper and added clear rhinestones to the center of all of them.

I also stamped the greeting at the bottom and dotted the 'I' with another rhinestone. Cornflower blue cardstock was folded for the base.

Ddd

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Another pair of images with different treatments.Image one got a snowflake grid background in teal and celery with a celery ground of torn cardstock. I mounted them on teal cardstock and stamped the greeting at the bottom. I added Stickles all over the snowman for a little zip.

Card number two got a matchup of swirly snow paper in blue on white and white on blue with a torn edge. I mounted this on green folded cardstock before the image was popped up on foam dots and the greeting is a clear sticker.

Ddd

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These two illustrations got entirely different treatments.The card on the left is a bit of flash with that shiny gold text background over green cardstock. Two table scrap papers were used to create a color band behind the main image, popped up on foam dots. I used the idea of the red-colored tag with a clear sticker greeting on both the cards.

For the one on the right I used two different prints of paper to mimic wallpaper and carpet so it looks like this might be a scene from the living room on Christmas morning. The image is mounted with foram dots on this card, too.

Ddd

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A pair of Rocking Moose with Santa aboard were used for these two cards. Each got a separate treatment this time. Moose left  got a pale green background with rounded corners popped up on foam dots over the pinecone printed paper. I glittered the cones with gold again and added a 3D greeting sticker. Santa's 'list' has hand written 'naughty or nice?'

Moose number 2 got a mixture of comfy plaids and a dotted paper over brown cardstock. His paper says 'Merry Chris-Moose'.

Ddd

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Here's another pair of illustrations that I treated identically. I stayed with the red and green theme in the 3D picture and used a bit of black with rounded corners for contrast. The black layer is on foam tape over the plaid background paper.

Those little tags started out as white price tags and I colored them with a Copic marker. The text greeting on the tag is a clear sticker and I used the original strings to tie them on to the ribbon.

Ddd

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These two cards with the same illustration are treated nearly identically. The only difference is that one has the snow layer printed on it and the other is a torn piece of that paper glued on. Can you tell which is which?

I did a simple mounting on red cardstock, popped up the illustration on foam dots and added a clear sticker greeting.

Ddd

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Updated: Friday, 26 November 2010 2:18 PM PST

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Script prints were used for the background on both of these versions of card using the same illustration. The one on the left has gold Stickles added to the yellow flower centers. I used green on the left and yellow for the right to bring out different parts of the color pallette.

I had purchased two versions of 3D greeting stickers and selected a different one for each of these.

Ddd

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Updated: Friday, 26 November 2010 2:18 PM PST

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Along with the many Santas in my purchase of 3D sheets there were several of snowmen. I like this little fellow with the trio of curious geese. I added a back border of green salvaged off an old card and bordered it with strips of checked ribbon to match the snowman's neck scarf.

the background paper is an overall pattern of clusters of pinecones. I enhanced them with a tiny bit of gold glitter and mounted it all on green folded cardstock.

Ddd

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Updated: Friday, 26 November 2010 2:17 PM PST

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Without the seasonal greeting this 3D image could suit any occasion. I used dusty blue to frame it out and to carry the greeting of a clear sticker.

The background paper I chose has little poinsetti 'snowflakes' in circles. The cardstock is really butter yellow. I have no idea why it appears to be tan!

Ddd

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Updated: Friday, 26 November 2010 2:17 PM PST

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This Santa seems to need a little help delivering his bag, but it is really fair to sit on it while the kids try to drag it along? I combined some of the papers I've used recently on other cards and gave it a purple folded card base.

I rounded the corners to feature the curve of the oval image and popped it up on foam dots. The text is a clear sticker.

Ddd

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Updated: Friday, 26 November 2010 2:16 PM PST

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For the non-foil 3D sheets I bought two of each so it seems reasonable to show both together. For the card on the left I selected some dotted vintage-look paper faces a folded green card base. I added a vinyl text sticker to the upper left and added three different colors of Stickles to selected dots. The Santa is mounted on foam dots.

Santa number two is also mounted on foam dots over a green panel on some of the antique ornaments paper. For this Santa I added a small clear sticker to the beard for the greeting.

Ddd

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Updated: Friday, 26 November 2010 2:16 PM PST

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This Santa looks a little feeble! He is stooped and has to use a cane and his bag looks like a 'man purse'. I decided to give him some bling to try to recover his image. I selected an antique-look background with strings of ornaments and added a variety of colors of rhinestones to them.

A border of brown frames the illustration, popped up on foam dors, and teal cardstock is folded for the base.

Ddd

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Oh, here's another of the illustrations from the Engelbreit book I scrapped out. I just gave it a narrow brown border and a larger blue panel to pull out the blue from the sky. To this I added a clear sticker greeting. These were offset on a diamond patterned paper to which I added a matching sheer ribbon.

I folded more of the blue cardstock for the base of the card.

Ddd

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A lot of the foil 3D sheets I got (ordered online) turned out to be of Santa and of a vintage look. I tried to pair them with other vintage look elements to preserve that feel. In this case, the paper with reindeer all over seemed to go well with the coloring and the subject.

A brown border for the illustration and popping it up on foam dots makes it the feature and a punched snowflake presents a little enhancement and repeats another color. The folded mossy cardstock matches some of the reindeer bringing it all together.

Since the 3D picutre has a greeting etched in the lower left corner, I did not add another to the card.

Ddd

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The central element of this card is a foil 3D from the punch-out sheets I bought. I chose a blue folded card base to match the blue ornament and pulled out four colors from the art with Christmas bulb brads. These go through only the distressed-look cream layer.

The greeting at the bottom is a small clear sticker.

Ddd

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Yes, we're still looking at Christmas cards because I haven't finished showing them yet! 

These beautiful candles are from some new foil 3D papers I got. They are more of those that punch out rather than being meticulously cut out.

The gold-on-gold text paper realy suited this and no other decoration was needed.

Ddd

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For a friend who teaches quilting and loves cats, I created this card using 6 patterned papers and a teabag folding technique. Each of the blocks has a little punch of a plaid cat in the center.

The quilt got a coordinating sashing around the outside and is mounted with pop-dots on a text-printed cardstock with corners rounded.

I used rub-on 'stitches' on random places on the quilt and completely around the sashing. The date at the bottom is also rub-ons and the greeting is a premade tag.

Ddd

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Here I used the same background as yesterday but in a less imaginative way. But the Santa is so decorative I didn't want to distract from him.

He is scavenged from the pages of the stamp catalog and colored with Copic markers. The furry parts got some Stickles that are shine but not glitter. Not sure I like these

Santa is popped up on foam dots and the greeting is stamped.

Ddd

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Updated: Wednesday, 17 November 2010 10:46 PM PST

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