More cards from the CMSS- August 2024

 I managed a few more presentation watched and two cads inspired by Jess Crafts and one by Desiree Kuemmerle. 

First up are the two cards I made following Jess Craft's template and cutting guide - using 6"x6" papers. Her templates use double sided papers, which make it a no scraps cut...but some of my papers are only one sided.   The templates show how to get two cards from one sheet.  I made one where I used the double sided paper to act as the matting layer which means I need two sheets.  And the other used one sided paper and some of the double sided left over pieces. 

First up the double sided paper card. 

I cut the papers following the template and added some Christmas ephemera.   A few red gems finished off this one.

And the second one.

For this one, I changed the orientation to portrait.  I love the grey stripes with the navy blue and then the pop of colour from the ephemera.  Added tiny red gems to the flower centres.   The sentiment was a freebie from a previous class I attended. 

And my card inspired by Desiree.... Her presentation was "Use any image Holiday ready"  - how to change any image to make it a Holdiay card. 

I took a Pinkfresh Studio stencil and die set to make this Christmas card.  It's called Daisy Wreath.   The way to make any image into a holiday card is all about choosing appropriate colours.   So for me it was about using reds and darker greens to add the colour to the image.   I used Altenew inks - Burnt Red and Mahogany Bark with a touch of Grey Denim inks for the flowers and Eucalyptus and Forest Fern inks for the leaves.   After die cutting I added the wreath to a grey panel and added a red and white foiled sentiment - from Yana's Christmas sentiments by Spellbinders.   Added some Pinkfresh clear gems in Scarlet. 

My Christmas stash is growing and there are so many more presentations to watch so I'll be sure to have enough cards to send in November!