Quick Quotes~Have a Cool Yule Cards

Good morning Quick Quotes readers, Alicia here today to show off some seasonal cards.  I have been making plenty of Christmas cards lately, but today I am working with some shaped cards.  I love to change it up!  

For the first card I found this super neat fold.  The inspiration was a spring flower but I immediately pictured it in red as a poinsettia.  This fold is often created with circles but I used hexes.  Here's the directions for the flower:

• cut 6 hexes.  I used 2.25" to cover the entire card but you could make smaller.
• fold two edges toward the inside, chalk generously
• I spritzed with some shimmer spray for a little pizzazz
• adhere pieces with pointed end in center
• create a center, I used a fancy circular die cut and bling
• I adhered to a circlular piece before adhering to the base card

To finish the card, I cut a circle from 49 Shades of Grey paper 101 for the inside and stamped my sentiment.

Quick Quotes products used:

Whistlin Dixie paper 104

Whistlin Dixie paper 106

49 Shades of Grey paper 101

49 Shades of Grey paper104

Midnight Confessions PowderPuff Chalking Ink

Bloody Mary PowderPuff Chalking Ink

Baja Blue PowderPuff Chalking Ink

other products:

Spellbinders hex and label 32

Cricut cut shaped base card

Tattered Angels Glacier

misc gems

For the second card I used a flip it card die that included dies for all the panels.  I used a couple of papers to fill in the panels and stamped my sentiment on white card stock.  I fussy cut a snowflake from Celebrate paper 100 to mount on the back of the flip and die cuts.  It worked perfectly! Quick Quotes collections of double sided papers are great for this type of card.

Finally, I added some ribbon and frosty candy dots.

Quick Quotes products:

Celebrate paper 100

Celebrate paper 200

Purple Passion PowderPuff Chalking Ink

other products used:

Fiskars scallop oval punch

Amazing Arts sentiment stamp

Sizzix Regal Flip its die

Pebbles candy dots

misc ribbon

Neither of the cards were too hard but still have a wow factor because of the fancy shapes.  I love trying something "outside the box".  I hope you are inspired to do the same.  Thank you for stopping by today!

I would like to enter these in the following challenges:


http://www.allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2015/12/week-340-clean-and-simple.html until 12/10x

http://www.christmascardsallyearround.blogspot.com/2015/12/hello-and-welcome-to-our-december.html until 12/28x


http://alohafridaychallenges.blogspot.com/2015/12/aloha-friday-challenge-62-christmas.html until 12/18x

http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/challenge-159-anything-christmas-goes.html until 1/5/2016x