Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Blue, Blue Christmas


...And when the blue snowflakes start falling / That’s when those blue memories start calling / You’ll be doing alright with your Christmas of white / But I’ll have a blue Christmas"

I made a card pack for a wonderful woman for Christmas, using various stamp sets and graduated shades of the color navy (Night of Navy and Not Quite Navy Pigment ink from Stampin' Up), the recipient's color of choice. I was inspired to make a monochromatic set of cards for Caardvark's last challenge.

Here's a look at the individual one-layer cards in the pack.

 Schlosser Design's Build a Border with a Waltzingmouse's Teeny Trees sentiment.

 Schlosser Design's Hexagon-A-Thon and Furnishing Fun, with a silver rhinestone.

 Schlosser Design's Circle-A-Thon with a sentiment from WMS's Teeny Trees and hand-drawn lines.

 Schlosser Design's Circle-A-Thon and Furnishing Fun.

Butterfly from Practicing Creativity Design's Nature's Wonder and sentiment from Wplus9's Ever After.

And I wrapped them up in some blue vintage wool thread...

 

34 comments:

  1. oh my goodness. fabulous CAS cards Karen.. amazing stamping and colours hues :)

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  2. Such a lovely card set! LOVE all those Schlosser Designs :)

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  3. What fun, I love the butterfly one... great job on the blue theme.

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  4. Oh I love how you did a set in different shades of blue! And they are all so pretty!

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  5. My first reaction upon seeing these beauties was: FORMIDABLE!!

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  6. Aw... this is where your big talent is!! Love them all, Karen!

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  7. What a lovely idea for a gift! Love that they are all in my fave color! ;)

    CAS at its best.

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  8. Karen, you are so talented...these are all beautiful!

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  9. Striking! In my favorite color none the less!

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  10. What a wonderful set of cards. Your friend is sure to love them.

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  11. lovely. I esp love the butterfly card. She'll love them!

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  12. These are so fresh and clean. I love the crispness of the navy on white. Lovely cards, Karen!

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  13. What a nice gift! How to use your inks are awesome!

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  14. BEAUTIFUL! It's so fun to see them all together like that. She will love them!!!

    Did you do 2nd/3rd/etc. generation stamping on those? So light and fun!

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  15. Karen,
    This gift set of cards are great and clean! Your friend is going to love them! I don't know what song is better Blue Christmas or White Christmas. I was just thinking today how I need to get out my Christmas movies and watch them soon. They always make me feel warm and fuzzy on the inside!
    Brandi

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  16. I love the CAS design and colors on these Karen! They are lovely!

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  17. Tes cartes sont vraiment fabuleuses.....j'adore ce style, c'est très joli, très classe !!!!!
    Bizzzzz de France

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  18. wow these are stunning. i love the gradient stamping!

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  19. these are pretty Karen!! really love them! :) :) :) :) :) :)

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  20. Done only as Karen can do! These are so stunning in their graphics and form - the colors - rich and then faint - are so pleasing. Another winner, Karen! Nice!

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  21. BEAUTIFUL!!!
    I love this set of cards!

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  22. These may be shades of blue, but they certainly make me happy! Love the clean and graphic design of these fabby cards, Karen! What a lucky recipient!
    Hugs,
    Aimes
    x

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  23. What a beautiful set of CAS cards!! I love each of them!

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  24. Gorgeous CAS cards! As always, I love your style!

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  25. Whoever receives these is gonna be thrilled, they are wonderful

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  26. what a thoughtful gift!!! I love that you included so many types of cards! I might have to do this for Hadley's teacher!! :D

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  27. What great looking quick cards...just wonderful!!
    Love the looks of the Banana Bread below too....omg...the dog ATE IT...I could not stop laughing....reminds me of the time my mom sat a WHOLE HAM on the table
    and went in the basement to do some laundry....came up a half hour later and there was the BEAGLE ON THE TABLE TOP...CHOWING DOWN....omg...I still laugh about that too:) Thanks for reminding me.

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  28. I am in love with these. Nothing else to say but that.

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  29. beautiful set of cards, karen:) love the b-flies!

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  30. love your set of cards, Karen!! The elegance, the siplicity, the coice of color, ... So Stunning!

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  31. wow! you are amazing, girl! these are so pretty and clever. love love love them all!

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  32. What an amazing set! I cant believe I missed this:-) Love them all! such great designs..

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