Festive Fridays 10-14

Good morning and welcome to another edition of Festive Fridays. If you are new to us, sit back, grab a cup of coffee, relax and enjoy some wonderful Christmas Cards. Yes, I did say Christmas...Festive Fridays will be every other Friday with samples of Christmas cards. This way, you can be making your cards all year long and you will avoid the mad rush when you could be enjoying the Christmas Season. You should have just come from Amanda. If you stumbled upon this post you can go back to Terri and start at the beginning. There is also a complete list of the Festive Friday hop on the left sidebar under the Festive Fridays blinkie in case you get lost along the way.


I finally broke out my cricut and created this simple card using the Winter Wonderland cart.  I love adding words and this cart has some great "winter" words.  Now I know it's all about Christmas cards, but sometimes you need a card for someone who doesn't necessarily celebrate Christmas and this worked perfectly.

It's very simple, but that's the look I was going for

I cut the words out of some heavier vellum paper

and the snowflakes are glitter paper.

I hope you liked my Festive Friday card and hope to see you back in two weeks for another Christmas card.  We are down to a month and a half of Festive Fridays, so hurry up and get your cards made.  Now head on over to Angela and check out what she has for you.

Brilliant Shaped card

Good Morning


Hopefully I have made it back to civilization, but I still won't have any internet access until tomorrow.  I should be able to use my phone, depending on how close we are to a tower in this beautiful nature town, but I will be back to the real world tomorrow and then I can check my computer and check in with all of my favorite readers.


Here is another quick card that I was inspired by Audrey over at Cute and Some. She definitely has some cute projects and she is such an amazing lady and lately always on the go.  Audrey and I are also in a "Craft it Forward" project, so if you would be interested in receiving a handmade craft go here (I am still looking for 2 participant, but you must comment on the original post) or here (Audrey is also looking for two more) and sign up.  There are a few rules, so head on over and check them out.


So onto my card...again, Audrey had a card on her blog a while back and I just fell in love with it.  You can see hers here and I wanted to "lift" it, but it never fails...I always wind up with something completely different.

Of course, again I used a Getting Cricky stamp from the Food for Thought and the Amazing You sets...mixing and matching is so much fun.  All the paper was from my stash and the ribbon also.  I embossed the bottom with my cuddlebug using the dots folder and added the 3 flat pearls.  The "tag" is the same file as the card itself, just scaled down and then I added a piece of vellum after I embossed it with the cuddlebug Flourished Frame (just the tip of it).  I really didn't care so much for this folder, but I like the way just a little bit of it worked for this card.  I hope I've inspired you to make a shaped card, even if it's just a simple one.

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Coffee & Tea Mix & Match  

Sympathetic Sayings (Larger set)

Winged Things: Mix & Match

(Bonus frame & images)