Cheerful Masculine Window Birthday Card with CTMH Everyday Celebrations and the Cuttlebug

Here's a cheerful masculine birthday card I made the other day.  I attached the Moonstruck cardstock to the front of my card base and then punched through both layers to make a window.  Boy was that hard getting the punch to go through two layers - next time I'll use a Nestie instead!  Then I sent the front through the Cuttlebug with my Birthday folder....

...centered the cake stamp through the window and stamped.  Next I opened up the card and added the sentiments.  To finish it off I added a bit of liquid glass to the candle flames and the cake icing and (just because I am very fond of orange) added a ribbon to the front!

Materials Used:
Papers:  Moonstruck Cardstock, White Daisy Cardstock
Stamps:  Everday Celebrations Stamp (from a promotional kit we had last September)
Inks:  Clover Meadow, Moonstruck, Chocolate, Sunflower Marker
Other:  Liquid Glass, Orange Ribbon (Michael's Crafts), Provocraft Birthday Folder

Vintage Christmas Card using CTMH Gracious Greetings, Cuttlebug Allegro Embossing Folder, Jingle Paper

This is my favorite card this year. I just love the soft vintage look this card has! I used the Cuttlebug Embossing folder to create the background on some Sweet Leaf cardstock and then used a brayer to apply Chocolate ink on top to bring out the emobssing and distress the background. I added our Happy Holidays greeting from the Gracious Greeting set in Tulip with a bit of Jingle paper pack to frame. The snowflakes are also punched (Martha Stewart) from the polka dot Jingle paper and a couple of strips from my new Martha Stewart edge punch were added in Colonial White to help frame the whole thing. I aslo used some Bamboo ink to distress the Colonial White pieces.

Materials Used:
Paper: Sweet Leaf Cardstock, Colonial White Cardstock, Jingle Level 2
Stamps: Gracious Greetings
Ink: Tulip, Chocolate, Bamboo, Tulip marker
Other: Blush Ribbon, Baby Pink Brads, Martha Stewart punches, brayer

Double Embossed Technique Lace Tree Christmas Card

This is one of those even better in real life kinds of cards. I had some metallic cardstock given to me by a friend that I put through the Cuttlebug using my new Lace Tree embossing folder. The results were nice but I have a hard time with plain cards so I needed to spruce it up a bit. I took my Versamark embossing pad and VERY LIGHTLY tapped on the top of the embossed area. I then added some of our Silver Embossing Powder and heat embossed the dry embossed areas. I loved the results - very classy and shiny!

Paper: White Daisy Cardstock, Unknown origins gold metallic cardstock
Ink: Versamark
Other: Silver Embossing Powder, Cuttlebug Lace Tree embossing folder