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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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Great video and awesome cards. Your harp playing is beautiful also. My favorite holiday cookie is good old fashioned shortbread.
Wow!! that tree with the text is just amazing!! I love your Christmas cards and you have definitely inspired me to get started on mine (as well as adding to my wish list). 🙂
My favorite cookie would have to be spritz cookies made with my swedish cookie press.
I love your harp music and molasses cookies!
I love Christmas in July! Beautiful cards – I love shakers the best! My fave Christmas cookie is my mom’s homemade Russian Teacakes. Only 5 months and 1 week to go … lol
Beautiful cards, Jessica! Your music really sets the mood for Christmas, too! My favorite holiday cookies are sugar cookies that my grandchildren and I love to make together.
Wow, would love to hear you playing your harp in person, the music is just beautiful!! Fabulous cards and how clear to turn that stamp into a Xmas tree, you little genius you!! I have a cookie that I make and give away in the hundreds each Christmas. Its a triple choc and macadamia cookie. We call it the ‘Cowpat Cookie’ because once its cooked thats exactly what it looks like LOL. Its chewy, chocolatey goodness and I wish I still had some in my freezer still!!!
Such fun and simple cards! My favorite cookies overall are chocolate chip but I do love a particular shortbread recipe that only seems to come out at Christmas time.
I love these card ideas! Maybe your videos will get me inspired to get an early start this year!
My favorite cookie is one I make each year for the holidays. They are Almond Bars. Buttery shortbread cookie with sliced almonds and a drizzle of almond powdered sugar icing on top!
I love the cards you have made, and the shaker card is my most favorite. When it’s Christmas, I love most of all little chocolats, with white sprinkles on it. I don’t no the name in English because I’m from The Netherlands. They are round and sometimes they look like a star, but most of the time they are round,with a hole in it. We called them ‘kerstkransjes’ and when I translate that you get ‘Christmas Wreaths’ ?.
Love your wonderful cards today.The shaker is fantastic My favorite cookie is chocolate chip/pecan..
Your cards are darling! I like Eggnog snicker doodles!
Love your beautiful CAS Christmas creations, Joy one is my fave!
As I am not Christian, Coconut cookies are my favorites!
Gorgeous cards! Love the shaker card & the clean lines on the Word Christmas Tree are wonderful! Clever idea!
I adore your JOY shaker! Your Deck the Halls is very classy! My favorite Christmas cookie is Cherry Winks. Too bad fudge doesn’t count!!
Beautiful cards! Gingerbread cookies are my favorite at Christmas time.
Yes, like the third week. Great cards!
Awww!!!! Your cards are amazing! I’m definitely in love for your stunning shaker card! <3
My favourite holiday cookie is gingerbread but another cookie that remember me that is Xmas is a kind of biscuit that we use baking in Sicily, south of Italy. I don't like so much because one of the main ingredients is the fig. During the summer my grandma take figs outside and let them dry in the sun. During the holiday season, we use to baking biscuits after dinner. These biscuits are very beautiful bacause they're all hand-decorated and all of different little shapes. In Sicilian slang we call them "cassateddre". It's a beautiful way to stay together with all my family.
Fabulous cards! My favorite Christmas cookie would be Mexican Wedding cookies. My mom used to make these only for the holidays!
Wonderful cards. My favorite Christmas cookie I cannot pronounce or spell. It’s like a little ball with powdered sugar and it starts with a P. I think it’s a German cookie. After that, my favorite Christmas cookie are sugar cookies.
Soooo cute….and reminds me to make more shaker cards (and listen to Christmas music in July)
My favorite Christmas cookie just a really great sugar cookie!
Oh, that JOY shaker card is so fun, and your sweet little CAS card makes me smile! I love the whimsical ornaments and star!! My favorite Christmas cookies are spritz cookies. LOVE their buttery goodness!
These are both brilliant! So clever the way you turned the sentiment into a Christmas tree! And of course I love the shaker card! I’m a bit of a shaker queen myself! Thanks for the awesome Christmas in July inspiration!
Oh, and my favourite holiday cookie – or any time of year – is chocolate chip!
Your Deck the Halls card has that song going through my head now!! Love both of these adorable Christmas cards, and I love Russian Teacakes for the holidays…or any time!
Loved this video. 🙂
Peanut butter chocolate chip cookie!
These are wonderful cards. I love the way you created a tree out of the sentiment on the first and used the negative die cut lets as your shaker card window.
A oatmeal, chocolate, toffee bar cookie my friend makes every year.