A little more Christmas/winter

I still have not put the Christmas stamp sets away & I keep making cards for next year.  I am so ahead of myself...

This is a stamp set that Duane bought me for Christmas & I LOVE it.  I have a stamp carving set that I plan on making a Dala horse stamp but I have not got brave enough to try to out.  This one is ready to go & fun to play with.

This was my December Happy Mail Swap.  It uses a cute stamp set call Best of Snow.

This card is also from the Best of Snow with a similar design.  It will be for a February Birthday.  I need to make up some more birthday cards for my stash.

This is another card that does not require any stamps, just an embossing folder & paper.  I liked the design but felt it needed something else.  I did not want to add actual buttons to the front of the card (I thought it would be to weighty) then I remembered that I have a die that cuts & makes a design on paper to look like buttons.  Perfect!

This one I was playing around with a design that I saw on Pinterest as a Valentine's Day card but I made it into a Christmas card instead.

This is a card that I made with the Joyful Christmas stamp set.  This was our stamp set of the month for November & there were so many interesting cards made with it.  I made the first card using Iridescent Ice embossing powder.  Unfortunately you can not see the effect in the photo.  The second card, I used gold embossing powder & I quite liked that effect too.  The last photo is of the sentiment on the inside of the card.  I have made about 12 of these cards for next Christmas.  There was a lot of cutting but I did all my stamping & then did my cutting while watching TV with the girls one evening.  I am not a big fan of fussy cutting but it is doable for a small number of cards & it gives the desired effect.