Christmas Card Challenge January 2008

One of my New Years resolutions is to have my Christmas cards done early!! I like to give cards to soldiers through my local SBS. I have done this for the past three years and would like to give even more in 2008. I have signed up for the Split Coast Christmas Card Challenge 2008 to help me get ahead this year. I am going to try and make 20 a month instead of 10. Some months I will probably have trouble getting 10 done so we will just have to see how it goes. This month I wanted to try out my new set of City of David. I have always liked this set but have put off getting it. When it was placed on the retirement list I just had to get it before it was gone. I really love it!! I’m so very glad I got it. The cards posted on split coast are beautiful and I’m sure I will enjoy making many more cards with this set it in the future. For now here are the three cards I made this week towards the CCS2008. I was able to make them early because I am off for Christmas Break. I am posting them tomorrow on Split Coast to be part of the January challenge. Hope everyone has a wonderful New Year!!
I hope to post some picutre this evening of our family and friends New Years eve bash!!

Cards for Guys

I just love these sets. I have played around with them before but wanted to make some cards for male birthdays and stuff. These cards where inspired by "no time to stamp". Here is a link to her site: http://notimetostamp.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/

Card #1
I used a shiny copper cardstock I picked up at a local scrapbook store "The Scrapbook General Store" it's really neat and I like the way it looks when embossed with the cuttlebug folders. I don’t think you can really see how shiny it is from this picture. I cut the star using a sizzix die. I placed a MM copper star in the middle of each star. I used chocolate chip wide ribbon.

Card #2
After I stamped the horse onto cocoa I wadded it up to make it look kind of like leather. I stamped the river rock scallop circle with bayou blue. The paisley is stamped in chocolate chip. I distressed the edges of the old olive and tour the mustard at the bottom.

Paper: Choc. Chip, Old Olive, Mustard, River Rock, Close to Cocoa, Shiny Copper Cardstock

Ink: Choc. Chip, Bayou Blue

Accessories: Scallop Circle, Wide Choc. Chip Ribbon, Copper Brads from Making Memories