Clearly Digi Stamps Blog Hop using Christmas Card Sentiments

***Important Announcement***

 

Today will be the last Blog Hop for our Clearly iStamp Blog. As a home schooling mom, Lori McCroskey has decided to close the Clearly Digi Stamps store at the end of this month. I was both happy and sad for her, knowing how hard it can be when life changes affect the direction of our lives. I'm happy that she has been sensitive to the leading of the Lord and is obedient to what is best for her family.  You can find her touching post here at the Clearly iStamp Blog.  She announced a special sale before the end of the month:

 

From now until the 30th of September all digis and SVG files will be 25% off!  Enjoy!

Enter this code at checkout:  SEPT30CLOSING

She also mentioned that Laurie Wilson will be gradually moving her fun digi sets to her blog, Doodle Pantry. I will also be joining the Doodle Pantry Design Team!
 

If you came here from Dana's blog you're on the right track for the blog hop. Today I'm using Lori McCroskey's stamp set "Christmas Card Sentiments." This is a great set of sentiments for the inside as well as the outside of your Christmas cards. It also contains Christmas Scriptures. Be sure to check out all of them at the link above.

Here is my CAS type Christmas card using Christmas Card Sentiments, Cricut Artbooking, 2 shades of Green Glitter paper, and the Sizzix/Tim Holtz "Wood Grain" embossing folder, using the Mojo Monday Sketch for this week and the Merry Monday Christmas Card Club #74 to use green, white, and woodgrain.

.  My outside sentiment was printed first before embossing. I folded a piece of cardstock to fit over and behind the sentiment before I embossed it so it wasn't as deeply embossed as the rest.

 

 The tree and the background woodgrain were both cut using the <L> key of the Cricut Artbooking cartridge. I really like the way you can size this woodgrain to fit your card using Real Dial Size. The square woodgrain overlay was cut at 6.25, just smaller than my card and trimmed off the right side to fit the 5" width. The center sentiment panel is 4" x 4" with the Pear mat cut at 4.25" square. The tree was cut at 3.75" to fit the panel. The left side strips were cut at 5/8" and 3/8."

This inside sentiment is my favorite and goes with the sentiment printed on the front since they both talk about the JOY we have in Christ.  Printing your own inside sentiment allows you to add your own "signature" like I did using MS Word or Photoshop. My card is 6.5" x 5" so I printed my sentiment easily on a 6" x 4" card. That makes it easy to print a stack of the sentiments to use inside cards.

Here you can see all of the other sentiments in the set:

 

If you comment and leave your email address, I'll put your name in a drawing to receive this stamp set free! The Winner will be chosen by 5pm eastern daylight savings time on Wednesday, September 18th, so leave your comment before then. I will contact the winner on Thursday. (If you've already gotten that set, you may select another set.)

 

  

To continue on the Blog Hop, you're ready to go to Jennifer's blog.

I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:
Craft-Room Challenge - Trees and/or leaves
Craft Your Passion #179 - Glitter and/or Gloss (CTMH green glitter cardstock)
Creative Creations #18 - Early Christmas Makes
Digi Makeover #105 - Make your own background
Merry Monday Christmas Card Club #74 - green, white, and woodgrain
Mojo Monday #310 - sketch
Our Daily Bread Designs SLC #170 - Get Ready for Christmas
Simon Says Stamp - Embossing
Stamps + Fun = Creativity #168 - Wood
Word Art Wednesday #97 - Anything Goes with Scripture or uplifting verse


6.5" x 5" Christmas Card Recipe:
Digital Stamps - CDS Christmas Card Sentiments
Paper - all CTMH - White Daisy, Pear, and Green Glitter Cardstock, retired "Believe" patterned paper (green stars-strip under the banner strip)
Tools - printer;  CTMH Cricut Artbooking cartridge; Sizzix Tim Holtz "Wood Grain" embossing folder