Sending Hugs: Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays is a Christmas collection released a few days ago, Today I have 4 cards that I made using some of the new goodies in this collection.

First up is St. Nick. He's nice and tall, so I made a slimline card that will easily fit into a business envelope. My card measures 3 1/2" wide by 8 1/2" long. My sentiment is also new - from Christmas Greetings.

supplies: various colored and gold foil cardstock, St Nick dies, sentiment from Christmas Greetings, ice blue sequins from Christmas Card Kit

St. Nick has a sweet face, complete with rosy cheeks and nose, eyebrows, and a mustache! The set comes with this pretty snowflake and also with a large star. I added some ice-blue sequins to the centers of my flakes for some subtle sparkle. This was lots of fun to put together!

The sentiment set has a fun font and size and a selection of 11 words and matching shadow dies that can be mixed to make the perfect sentiment.

My next card features the new Candy Canes & Holly dies and new Emerald Cut Labels dies, along with what may be my new favorite Christmas sentiments, Sending Joy Sentiments press plates; isn't the font pretty?

supplies: red, white, and green cardstock, Candy Canes & Holly dies, Emerald Cut Labels, Sending Joy Sentiments press plate, Red glimmer foil, Holly Flourish embossing folder, small adhesive foam squares

I die-cut the largest Emerald Label die and glued it to my card front, then manually trimmed away the 4 corners to make this a shaped card. I also added a subtle embossed holly background in the background, before popping my candy canes and sentiment above the card surface.

My third card shows you a beautiful new Christmas floral set of dies, Poinsettia Spray, done in pinks, white, and a bright green instead of traditional Christmas colors. I added a bit of silver foil in the centers of the flowers, and placed the spray onto a big postage stamp, adding another of those beautiful script sentiments.

supplies: colored and silver foil cardstock, Poinsettia Spray dies, Sending Joy Sentiments, Bright Pink glimmer foil, Postage Edge Rectangle dies

And finally, I mixed the Winter Rose Background with a smaller Emerald Cut Label, and used another new BetterPress sentiment set called Mistletoe Greetings. The background and the sentiment are foiled in red. Then I inked another panel and used the matching stencils to color it, and used a smaller label to cut out the center, which I lifted above the foiled panel with foam, adding the red frame..