My 18-Step Christmas Card

Here it is.........

The Christmas Card that ended up taking way more time than I thought it would. 

When I was trying to figure out what I wanted to make for my card this year, the only thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to use my Copics. I discovered these awesome markers this year, and was on the look out for a stamp that I could color with them.

I was in Archivers looking at stamps when I looked at the back of a Stampendous stamp and saw this Angel. I wanted that Angel for my card. It was perfect! I asked the nice Archivers lady if they had this stamp. Of course, she said no, that the angel is last year's stamp. So now I'm on a mission to find this stamp. I finally found it online and ordered it. This was about a week before Thanksgiving. It didn't arrive until after Thanksgiving. And since I wasn't exactly sure how big the angel was, I couldn't start cutting anything yet. 

So then the first week of December started my mass producing card assembly line. 

So here is the list of my 18 steps:

1. Cut the white squares.
2. Punch the border along one side.
3. Stamp angel.
4. Color angel with Copics.
5. Emboss Wings. (You can see that in above pic.)
6. Color Wings with Copics.
7. Round corners on white angel square.
8. Cut Red Base of card.
9. Emboss red base with Sizzix Polka Dot Embossing folder.
10. Stamp & Emboss greeting on front of card
11. Cut & Emboss inside label with the Spellbinders Nestabilities
12. Stamp Greeting on inside label.
13. Punch 1/2 circle on my picture pocket.
14. Make picture pocket.
15. Edit pictures and add swirl & Holiday brushes.
16. Print and cut pictures to 4x4 size
17. Round corners on all pictures.
18. Stamp Handmade By Christie on back. 

Yeah, I went a little crazy again. 

Here is the inside of the card. I used these three different pictures of us that we took while on vacation in the Gulf Shores. 

Here is the back with my special 

"Holiday Card" stamp.

And I made 60 of them. Yes, 60. 

Thanks for visiting me!