Elegant Christmas Cards

 I have three holiday cards to share today featuring the brand new Easy Elegance collection at Hero Arts. This is a timeless collection that you'll pull out to use each year for classic holiday cards, but can also mix and match with your other holiday items.

Today I'm sharing 3 fairly traditional cards. I'll be playing with the collection again to make some more in brighter colors!

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The two new backgrounds are just beautiful and I know they will get used multiple times throughout this crafting season. This card uses the lovely Classic Plaid Layering Stencil with the first layer inked in Unicorn White and the second stencil uses a thin layer of Hero Paste Gold.

This new collection also includes the Bold Holly Die Set, at a very affordable price! I die cut the holly and the berries from ColorWheel cardstock and added some glitter paste for extra shimmer. The stunning sentiment from the new So Very Merry stamp set is heat embossed in Gold.

My second card today shows off the lovely new Radiant Star Letterpress and Foil background plate. This plate can certainly be used for cardmaking all year long, not just during the holidays! I did use Pewter foil on Fern cardstock. In order to use the foil technique, you do need to use the Glimmer Hot Foil Machine.

I cut the holly dies directly out of the foiled background, then added Mint holly cuts into the inlay. This sentiment also comes from the new So Very Merry set and is heat embossed in White.

This final card is basically put together with the leftovers of the previous one. I used the already-used foil sheet from the Radiant Star plate to get the negative design (do this with a solid foil plate) and the cut holly leaves with the positive foil design already on them. You can see the background didn't fully transfer, but I actually liked the happy-accident grunge look it made.

The sentiment is simply a rub-on from the new Season's Greetings Transfer Sheets.

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Surfside Lotus

 I love a good color challenge! Concord and 9th has challenged us to create something featuring the new color Surfside. It is my favorite color of the new set, so I am squeezing in this card on the final submission day.

For my birthday, I ordered myself the entire Lotus Collection and here I am, two months later, finnnnallllly getting around to creating with it. For the color challenge, I'm using the Spellbound Color Palette. The colors are Surfside, Briar Patch, Pebble, Juniper, and Lemongrass. 

The star of the card is the Lotus Card Front cover plate, I hated to cover any of it up! The sentiment is from the Layered Lotus Stamp Set which is die cut from the matching Layered Lotus Dies.

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Celebrate Big! 2 Birthday Cards

Taking a quick break from winter-themed cards for the cards we need year round - Birthday cards! Today I have two very different cards, both using the fun November Stitching Die of the Month called "Party on! Stitched hat".

I happen to be of the age where all of my friends are turning 40, so I know this card will be useful very soon. The pink hued cardstocks paired perfectly with the glitter rose gold.

I used papers from the ColorWheel Collection in the colors Wild Berry, Tutu, and Blush. 

My second card is very different yet still quite similar! I use all the same ColorWheel Cardstock colors with the November Stitching Die...

But this card mainly features just the little pom pom die from the top of the party hat. I used it repetitively to create a little design, with the "celebrate big" banner right in the center.

Don't forgot to always make birthday cards... they are always needed!

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