My Paper Pumpkin #3 Part 2

Hi!

The second project that was in my November My Paper Pumpkin was a set of eight cute holiday cards!  If you haven't read my previous post, it tells you all about Stampin' Up's My Paper Pumpkin and also about the other project that came in this box!

The supplies included to make this project are eight blue cards, eight white envelopes, sixteen white snowflake halves, small blue punch out snowflakes, small white squares, and then the stamps, ink, baker's twine, jewels, adhesive dots, and washi tape that was also used for the tags.

The first step is to fold the blue cards so that the snowflakes are on top and the card opens like a book.

Then I stamped the snowflake right in the middle of the front of the card.

On the inside of the card, stamp the snowy image all across the top.  I think this stamp is so cute!

After stamping the long saying on the white squares, I used the washi tape to attach the squares inside the card and then added a few jewels!

There is a Merry Christmas stamp and a Happy Holidays stamp, so I did four cards and the backs of four envelopes with each saying.

Then I used the adhesive dots to attach the white snowflake halves behind the blue snowflake part of the card.  This step probably took the longest just because the dots are teeny!  I also used the dots to attach the blue snowflakes to the envelope flaps.

The last step is to tie the cards closed with the baker's twine!

Aren't they so pretty??  I love the light blue and silver color theme of this holiday box!

My December box is on its way here now and I'm so excited to see what the next project(s) will be!

Thanks for reading!

Holiday Card Workshop at Baltimore Print Studios

Hello!

Yesterday I got to do another great workshop at Baltimore Print Studios!  This was the third workshop I've attended there, and they've all be so much fun.  The other two were a screenprinting workshop and a repeat pattern workshop.  Yesterday was a Holiday Card Workshop, and we got to design and print 30 holiday post cards!

We chose between making 30 of one design with two colors or 15 of two different designs, one color each.  That's what I did!

They had tons and tons of polymer plates that had words, phrases, and even pictures, borders, etc. to choose from to design our cards.

The plates are sticky, so it was easy to arrange and rearrange our designs on a clear block until they were perfect.  Then we used the letterpress to print them!

There were three letterpresses set up with ink: one red, one green, and one silver.  I did a green set of 15 on white cardstock and a silver set on off-white cardstock.  

We also printed the divider line on the back of each card so we can mail them as postcards.  It says "Letterpress printed by me at Baltimore Print Studios".  So cute!

Note the sweet doggy in her sweet sweater.

Here are my finished products!  I'm going to trim the tops a little bit and then they'll be ready to go!

I had so much fun!  Everyone had such creative designs.  I can't wait to mail them to family and friends :)  I need to take their Letterpress Workshop next!

Thanks for reading!