Still making Christmas cards...

I'm still making Christmas cards to donate, and I expect I'll keep making them until the last week of December. 

While I have finished making cards for my personal use, I haven't shared all of them here on the blog. Today's post shows you a couple of them that were a lot of fun to make.

The Santa image used on these two cards was a free AI image available online. I love the look of a traditional Santa, so I printed out a few and made several of these cards.

I used some mat silver cardstock to die-cut a frame for Santa before adhering the image to a die-cut red banner. I embellished my frame with a little holly cluster that had some self-stick gems in place of the berries.

The banner was popped up with foam tape and the sentiment was popped up with thin foam strips (they're great for sentiment strips!).

When I have the time, I love adding a little decoration to the inside, too. I used a scalloped border punch and a thin strip of red CS to create this embellishment. 

The sentiment is a stamp that I have used on a lot of cards this year.

This card was made the same way, with a couple of small differences. I added silver dots with a Viva Decor pen, and I matted the sentiment with red CS before popping it up beneath the banner.

I used a different sentiment on the inside of this one. I added the scalloped strip of DSP at the bottom, but I did not add the thin strip of red cardstock. In looking at the photo, I wish I had!

The days are zooming by, and I am doing my best to get everything ready for the big day. I still have some decorating, wrapping and baking to do. I think I'll let my DH take care of some of the cleaning. He's actually pretty good at that!

I hope your Christmas preparations are well underway. I'm sure some of you are even done and just enjoying the days leading up to the 25th!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl