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Good morning and welcome back to the third week of my Christmas in July video tutorial series! You can find week 1 here and week 2 here. Concord & 9th‘s July release came out on the 9th and I couldn’t resist snatching up all their new Christmas sets for today’s video! I created two cards today…one is an (almost one-layer) CAS card and the other is a shaker!
You can watch today’s video below or in HD at my YouTube channel!
My first card uses the O Christmas Tree set and a variety of inks from Hero Arts. I loved the ‘Deck the Halls’ sentiment and decided to use some of the tinier decorative stamps to create a word art Christmas tree! Finally I added a border with the Stripe Builders border set and then matted the panel on a red card base.
My next card is also CAS but it’s a shaker, my all-time favorite card to create! I die-cut the Joy word from the center of a piece of white cardstock and then filled it with red, silver, gold, sparkling clear sequins and red and clear seed beads.
I stamped the rest of the sentiment from the Joy stamp set onto red cardstock, heat-embossed it with white embossing powder, and then trimmed it down to a label before adhering it to the card with foam mounting tape.
I am really loving this release from Concord and 9th! I have made several more cards using these stamp sets and will share them later this week! I highly recommend heading over to pick them up because they’re sure to sell out soon!
P.S. Fun fact, the music on my video today is performed by yours truly on my harp! This month I’ll be using tracks off of my solo Christmas album on my holiday card tutorial videos and I hope you enjoy them! ?
To help get you in the holiday spirit I have a crafty package of a few supplies that I’ve used to create each card this month. The total contents of the package will be a surprise for the recipient but is valued over $45! To enter leave a comment on each of my Christmas in July posts and this week, let me know your favorite holiday cookie (or your favorite cookie in general if you don’t celebrate Christmas)! ? US and international entries welcome!
Thanks so much for visiting and have a wonderful day!
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Love the JOY shaker card.
Such fun cards! We still love to make sugar cookies and frost them! My daughter has her high school girlfriends come over (they graduated 15 years ago) and they have a decorating contest!
Gorgeous cards, love these focal point sentiments! My favorite holiday cookie is great grandma’s sugar cut out cookies, though I don’t make them with lard anymore. Enjoyed your Christmas harp music too, what a treat!
LOVELOVELOVE the shaker card!! So fun!! The other one is also very pretty!
My favorite holiday cookie is cut-out sugar cookies with mint buttercream frosting! YUMMY!
I really love the shaker card. My favorite Christmas cookie is a sugar cookie with cake frosting.
Wonderful cards. I like how you created the word art tree. Very festive Joy shaker card. My favorite Christmas cookie is my mom’s brown sugar cut out cookies.
Hi Jess, they’re both gorgeous! I especially love that shaker, you know me and my shakers. What great holiday stamps. Your music’s so beautiful, one of your many talents. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.
Love the whimsical look of your first card and of course I also love the shaker card. My favourite Christmas cookies are Dutch Christmas cookies called ‘kerstkransjes’ (literally: small Christmas wreaths). It’s a crispy butter cookie with slivered almonds on top.
Awesome cards! Love how CAS they are yet they sparkle and shine! My favorite Christmas cookie are my decorated sugar cookies. I found a recipe that has a secret ingredient that makes then perfect!
What beautiful cards!!!!
Delightful cards – so fun and perfect for the Christmas season, I love how you are prepping now with your cards! I tend to wait until the last minute to think about Christmas cards!! Each card has a special personality all its’ own!! My favorite Christmas (or any time) cookie is SUGAR cookies!!!
Wow, you really are getting a jump start on Christmas crafting. Both cards are simply delightful and fun.
Both your cards are awesome but I love the Joy shaker card so much! I do a lot of Christmas baking and my favourite cookies at Christmas are my decorated sugar cookies with ginger molasses cookies being a very close second. Thanks for the great video, I really enjoyed it and I think your harp playing in the background is beautiful!
Fun cards, love the
borders on the first
one and the shaker!
I love Sugar Cookies
and eat them year
round. Happy
Christmas in July!
Carla from Utah
Love your cards! My favorite holiday cookie is snowballs. Way too long since I have had those.
Love them both but super love the clean and stunning joy shaker!!
🙂
macaroons are my fav…
Your style is so much like mine and I want to make all of your cards! My favorite holiday cookie is a frosted sugar cookie. It has to be soft with creamy frosting or I’ll pass it up for something chocolate!
Awesome cards!
I love gingerbread in any shape:-)
I loved iced sugar cookies…all year long!
I love thumbprint cookies at Christmas! Great cards!
Jess… these cards are so totally awesome and fabulous! Love the creativity how you created the christmas tree out of those stamps and the shaker card is super fun!
I love mexican wedding cookies and spritz cookies because I can bake them… LOL! But my all time favorite cookies are those butter cookies baked by my beloved mom.
Your cards are awesome!!!!! I can watch your videos all day.
yaaaaaay these are PERFECTLY cas!!
hmmm… i really like the peanut butter cookies with a hershey kiss in the middle. i can’t remember what they’re called, but now i’m drooling. cool.
I love the Joy shaker card! My favorite Christmas cookies are candy cane cookies 🙂