Christmas is coming -- See companion website!

Hop on over to CardMonkey's companion blogsite, to see the 100 cards being made as we Countdown Til Christmas.

The blogsite is:

www.northpolecards.blogspot.com

Instructions for the card at left:

After mounting sub-frames of red, green and white cardstock atop a 5 x 6.5" premade card, I cut a candy cane from gleaming red cardstock. In this case, I used a candy cane found in the User's Gallery of "Make the Cut."

I then wrapped the candy cane in red/white striped baker's twine that I purchased recently. I found the twine in red/white, green/white, brown/white and blue/white, and bought cones of each at a reasonable price. (It works out to $0.005/yard -- a half-a penny per yard! To compare, when Martha Stewart was selling baker's twine, she was selling 60 yards for $3.98 MSRP. That's six-and-a-half cents per yard! That product has been discontinued, though.) The sentiment was cut from Cricut's "Joys of the Season" cartridge.

Be sure to visit the North Pole Cards blogspot to see how you can get in on the GREATEST CHRISTMAS BLOG CANDY giveaway!

Blessings at Rosh Hashanah

To my Jewish friends and neighbors, warm wishes for a happy New Year as you celebrate Rosh Hashanah ... high holy holidays.

To make this card at left, I used the Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL) program to convert the image of a dove I found online. I then cut that image out of the cardstock, saving the off-cuts for use in future projects.

I lined the card with a glossy deep turquoise paper from the Mariposa stack.

I then created another multicut of the dove using the SCAL program and cut the twigs and leaves from gold glitter stock from the same stack. For the Star of David, I used the Cricut "Joys of the Season" cartridge, cutting on a glitter stock as well. I pre-printed the message on the card using my standard HP inkjet printer.

Blessings to all, with peace.