Easy Embossed Card Details: Caution, Santa Spoilers

[@juliepepperman]

Love watching your videos, especially when you use alcohol markers. I’m new to them so I use your videos to learn and practice. Your cards are always beautiful and inspiring. Merry Christmas!

[@lisaobrien8060]

Love it, very striking.

[@kathrynmonroe2537]

Stunning card and coloring, especially the bow. Most of all, love the story of big brother stepping up...

[@sharonmeredith4321]

Beautiful card! Merry Christmas to you and your family

[@bonniechesbrough5594]

Pretty Pretty...love it !!!!

[@marshafreer9764]

Such a beautiful card, Kelly! Love the embossed/debossed door...so awesome! 💖

[@kathyriebesell9527]

Beautiful!

[@morelle3292]

😍 I Love everything about this card. The colors and design are just lovely and welcoming. Love. Love. Love.

[@denabaker96]

Beautiful ❤I love this ❤👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️

[@sheilarawlings627]

I love watching your coloring technique. You have a gift. Beautiful card!

[@CatherinesCreations7]

Absolutely beautiful, Kelly! Love it.

[@shirleymcneely1994]

Love the card. Beautiful and unique. The embossing technique is wonderful

[@susanforman8495]

I love your card. The door technique is amazing and really makes the card.

[@cardsbyshannonlee]

amazing card! I love the embossing on the card base. great idea. TFS!

[@paulineking9746]

OMG I absolutely love this card. ❤it is gorgeous!

[@rikkiscott-morgan4248]

Gorgeous card Kelly, love the door so clever.❤

[@adj822]

Gorgeous! Love it 😊 ❤

[@dawnlee8175]

Beautiful card, your coloring always amazes me!

[@andreasdesigns]

You always do a great job. I love this card. ❤ You and your family have a Merry Christmas. 🎄🎅

[@suzanherrington8316]

Merry Christmas ❤🎉😊

[@LizReeves1971]

So beautiful! 😍

[@LynBell]

I love what I learn from your beautiful cards! Merry Christmas!

[@bonnerdebbie]

Stunning card Kelly, the embossing is the cherry on top. Merry Christmas!

[@margaretw9681]

Love this card colours are beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas

[@wendywell4864]

Just lovely!

[@Taitcreates639]

Kelly, this card was truly labor of love, and so gorgeous. Love all the details. Merry Christmas. Enjoy those littles on Christmas Morning

[@susanbyers7523]

very cute card. love how you did the embossing

[@lindaball403]

Gorgeous!

[@debbiepiccolo7846]

Fantastic card. Thank you . Merry Christmas to you and you family.

[@lou-annedwards5229]

Another stunning card Kelly, love watching you create. Merry Christmas to you and your family from Ottawa Canada 🇨🇦

[@blondecardsncrafts]

It does look like a door. 🩷 Sending Christmas wishes from Ireland. 😍🧑‍🎄🌲⛄️🥰

[@norinemueller4588]

Such a pretty card as always Happy Holidays

[@joanbardee5135]

another beauty

[@patriciawilson4135]

This is a beautiful card, love everything about it. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and thanks for all you have taught me this year.

[@reginaperkins8255]

I love the colors on this card. It came out stunning.

[@DarkMatterZine]

Lovely card. I don’t usually like that much red but it really works. Since some very sad Christmases (due to being on or below the poverty line years ago and an abusive family when was a kid so I watched brothers and sister get lovely gifts while I did not - I’m disabled and the family story is that my brothers who look so much like me are my stepfather’s sons) I started buying Christmas presents in January when I had the money and saw something that suited a particular person. This meant, of course, that there were Christmases where I went totally overboard but the kids didn’t mind at all (unless one minor present was educational instead of fun then I had to point to all the fun perfect presents). But as we’ve grown older, my husband has become more difficult to buy for. He doesn’t want for much in life and the things he enjoys (tv series, movies, games) that he wanted he started buying on the spur of the moment to enjoy “now” instead of for presents. I’ve had to argue and nag to get him to choose things he wants and to keep them aside. But this year that all changed. It’s been a really awful year in many ways but this one thing made a real positive difference for me. Hubby asked for a 4K player for his birthday. After scraping my jaw off the floor because he actually came out with something he really wanted and would love as a present, I said YES. GO. GO NOW. GO AND BUY IT NOOOOOOWWWWWW. He has also bought a lot of 4k movies and tv series that he wanted. Some were around his birthday so counted towards that present. A lot are in my drawer so I can give them to him on Christmas Day. Some he’s watched already. We agreed that we’d treat Christmas this year as A MONTH because it’s been such a horrible year. So we watched Die Hard early and I’ve given him a few of the 4k movies he bought himself (he’s gone to my drawer, picked out what he wanted to watch, given it to me so I can give it to him). I think he would have been happy to give it all to each other on 1 December but I asked that we spread it out and keep at least some stuff “for the day”. This works for both of us. And I’m FINE with him buying his own presents because he’s getting what he wants and it’s a lot easier for him to go to the store to browse and even buy than it is for me to get there. (I’m disabled so navigating to unfamiliar stores… last time I went to pick up something for him, Apple Maps nearly got me killed. Fun times.) And he “MADE” me buy crafting orders. So I have a whole heap of stamps and dies in HIS drawer and he’s encouraged me to get out a few early. I know this isn’t traditional but I think it’s more important that it works for us than being traditional. Also re wrapping: I used to wrap presents nicely and recycle wrapping paper. This was important to me as I was environment conscious from a young age BUT ALSO when we were broke keeping the paper helped financially. Hubby HATED that, lol. He used to make a point of shredding the paper, including shredding other people’s paper after they’d unwrapped their presents. When HE wrapped gifts he used to use A LOT of tape. It was a family joke. Even though it cut across the grain for me, I came to love it and the fact that it became a long-running family joke. These days though we’ve dropped all that. The change started when I bought a gift box with the intent of recycling it. Hubby used to joke with our son about the book “The Poky Little Puppy”, and the older our son got the more it became a running joke. One year we bought a copy of the book and gave it to our son (along with other “real” gifts). Our son laughed and cringed and gave it back. Hubby insisted that we keep giving it to him and every time he gave it back so, of course, it was there to gift next time. The gift box started the shift to gift boxes across the board. Now I buy gift boxes that we re-use or I decorate empty packaging boxes. I would really like to do more decoration myself because I think that makes the box special but I haven’t done much yet. Maybe next year. The other thing I’ve done is buy some fun Christmas and non-seasonal dressmaking fabric and I use that instead of paper. I haven’t yet but I plan to get a pile of good fabric hemmed. (I don’t have a sewing machine or anyone nearby who could do it for me so I’d have to pay someone.) And the beauty of that is we recycle the fabric and, once it’s hemmed, it can even be washed and ironed to keep it fresh. I’ve noticed that there’s an “art” of wrapping that looks almost origami like so I’m curious to try that once I have hemmed fabric. All of the above leads me to say what I intended to say at the beginning: wrapping presents can be quick and easy, especially if you have boxes to put gifts into. And the story of the re-gifting of the Poky Little Puppy ended when our son’s new partner made him keep the book the Christmas before last. Since then I’ve looked into buying a Chinese version because the partner (a lovely lady) is Cantonese and my son is learning Mandarin. Apparently China only has one traditional written language and one simplified written language so a Chinese version would be readable for both. But a little golden book written in Chinese is about $100 in either Australian or US currency (can’t remember which). A bit pricey. (Don’t ask me why my son isn’t learning his partner’s first language. I think it’s because he refuses to be taught by a woman. Sigh.)

[@maryhughes6390]

Merry Christmas! Beautiful card as always.

[@elizabethharris8692]

Love the card! Happy Holidays!