A crafty friend, Myra (YT: craftyrats), is collecting holiday cards that she is going to be distributing to seniors during the holidays. I love supporting wonderful crafty causes like this, but I also thought (hoped) it would jump start me a bit on my holiday card making since I had completely missed “Christmas in July.” LOL<\/p>\n

<\/a>Since these cards are going to be for seniors, I wanted to have an elegant traditional look so I thought about using white poinsettia flowers as the main focal point. I found an image of one online that I printed out and fussy cut out. I bordered half of the petals with\u00a0Champagne Stickles and used an embossing tool to give the flowers some sparkle, texture and dimension. I layered these on top of gold foil paper doilies and layered\u00a0one of these flower-doily combos\u00a0on top of embossed textured card stock that I inked with Hickory Smoke Tim Holtz Distress Ink. I layered the other on top of polka dot vellum that I adhered onto a corrugated kraft card base. \u00a0All this layering was great and gave a nice finished look, but I thought they were a little too predictable.<\/p>\n

<\/a>So to add a little whimsy, I decided to use the Essentials by Ellen “ELF’D” stamp set<\/a><\/span> that I fell in love with but only got to use once last year. I stamped out a couple of them and colored them up with the following Copic colors:
\nSkin: E51, E53 and BV000 (for shadow); Hair: E55 and Y35; Red elf: R14, 17 and 37; Coral elf: R21, 22 and 24; and Black boots: 100
\nI fussy cut them both out and inked the edges so you can’t see the white edge of the paper. Then for the fluffy white parts of their hats, I used DecoArt Snow Writer to add some dimension and texture.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Oh yes, these little cuties–one popping up from behind a flower and the other sitting in the center of a flower–added just the right touch of fun. I heat embossed the “Embrace Your Inner Elf” sentiment with Ranger Queen’s Gold embossing powder and hand cut these sentiments into a fishtail banner. I popped these up on foam dots and added them to the lower left of the card fronts. I kept the insides of the cards simple, simply matting white card stock with some gold foil patterned paper scraps and stamping out another sentiment from the stamp set: “Have Yours-Elf A Merry Little Christmas.”<\/p>\n

These Christmas cards are going to be entered into the following challenges:
\nSimon Says Stamp Wednesday Make for the Border Challenge
\n<\/a>CAS-ual Fridays Time to Color Challenge<\/a>
\nLil Patch of Crafty Friends Anything Goes Challenge
\n<\/a>Fab ‘n’ Funky Anything Goes Challenge<\/a>
\nWord Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
\n<\/a>Creatalicious Anything Goes Challenge
\n<\/a>Craft Your Passion Anything Goes Challenge<\/a>
\nCrafty Gals Corner Any Holiday Challenge<\/a>
\nAddicted to Stamps and More Make Your Mark Challenge<\/a>
\nEssentials by Ellen August Pin-Sights Challenge<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0– white flower, coral color (popping up elf)
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