Here are some more fun examples of Holiday cards to get you inspired to create your own!!!
1. By Amy Bayless -- "can you believe that was my very first layout ever???" Most of the stuff was from escrappers.com: tags, cork, negative strip, and 4x5 negative. denis even made the pushpin just for me! : ) ~ the word charm ... designs by joy ~ typewriter keys - natalie??? ~ fonts: westsac, gift - 2peas, MASexy
2. By Amy Bayless -- "this was a scraplift of something by gina cabrera. don't even remember where the original was!" staples probably from matter of scrap. papers ??? tab thingy ??? and i made the 10 thingy. ~ fonts LD underwood pica, LD punch in, virginia plain.
Ok, Amy Bayless is rocking my world!!! Here's another one from her!!! All elements from Creative Snaps' "fa la la" kit.
By Jen Strange -- I designed this for my mom, as a 4x6 regular-sized photo, to include in her Christmas cards. My older sister Sheri took the pics of Jake with mom and I. Paper is from Jasbeanie's Green Holly Kit (one of my favorites!)
1. By Amber Clegg -- "All elements desined by me :) Am at amsdigiscraps.com. It should be available in a Christmas kit soon."
2. By Yvette Sanders -- "I did my cards in 6x4 this year. All graphics are from my soon to be released kit Kids Christmas Paper Pack at SOTB."
1. By Monica McLain -- "Everything (and I do mean everything, papers, staples, wordart) is from Dani Mogstad's Santa Baby paper pack and embellishments from DesignByDani.com. The font I used in my greeting is Fabulous 50's.
As far as the photo, the settings themselves was the easy part. Getting him to smile and stop clanking the bulbs and braking them was not so easy. lol. I used a black blanket and lots of natural light and took the photo with no flash. The photoshop color accent technique is nothing new, but I switched it up a little bit by going more mocha colored instead of true Black and white."
1. By Shabby Princess. All designs by the Princess.
2. By Anita Stergiou -- this is the first of 3 cards featured here by Anita -- they are part of a set of 4 beautiful cards she designed . . . "I’ll be making them available in .PNG format as Scrap Snaps cards for free download from Natural Designs in Scrapbooking if anyone wants to use them." Click here.
1. By Shabby Princess. Red Paper – Ronna Penner at www.scrapadelic.com – Christmas Joy Kit, Green stitching and gingham paper – Holly McCaig – www.thedigichick.com – Shabby Christmas Kit
1. By Emily Boetel -- (click here for her blog) "Can you believe I'm one of those crazies who has handmade my Christmas cards for the last few years! Whew...this was so much easier & faster! LOL -- this one is 5x7 inches."
2. By Anita Stergiou
1. and 2. by Tracy fox -- "The merry xmas card in red & green is completely my design. I created all the elements for it. The blue xmas card is all my creation except for the background which is from Anita Stergiou's first xmas kit."
1. By Christy Sturm -- "It's all my stuff - Butternug Squash Designs."
2. By Anita Stergiou
1. By Jen Strange. Elements all from Christy Lyle's "Unwrapped" kit (which is totally one of my favorite Christmas kits!) ~ www.digichick.com
2. By Lynn Cook. " I used Dax's "Old Fashioned Christmas" kit by Kelly Meaux and Jamie Rousselle, This was a 12 hour Christmas in July freebie event at DigitalScrapbookPlace. Font is CK Holiday Spirit."
3. By Anita Stergiou
1. above, and 2. below -- By Joy Fender: "On both cards, I used Ronna Penner's "Holly Jolly Christmas" kit. I think I'm going to use both."
1. By Shabby Princess. A great Halloween example! How fun! "Boo Overlay – Anna Aspnes – www.scrapbook-elements.com – Happy Halloween kit. Ribbon, Button and Candy Corn – Mo Jackson – www.mojackson.com – Mo’s Private Collection – Halloween kit
(2. By Joy Fender)
1. By Kim Ruettgers: it is Dani Mogstad's Home for the Holidays from DesignByDani.com. Font is from 2peas AL Meaningful.
By Amy Wathen. "Thanks to Anna Aspnes for the inspiration (Designing with Digital, page 50). "Gorcery Bag" paper from Gina Cabrera/Digital Design Essentials/Forever Grateful Kit. Fonts are Pharmacy and Liorah. Postage Stamps and Postmark I created myself."
I also have some great TEMPLATES you can buy to show you!!!!
1. Kim Hill with CGEssentials has all SORTS of great stuff! Printable Christmas Gift Tags, Holiday Printable Notecards (which are SO GORGEOUS!!!), and four digital kits that come with bonus greeting card templates! You have the following to choose from: (1.) Winter Wishes, (2.) Very Merry, (3.) Chanukah, and (4.) Hip Holidays.
2. Dianne Rigdon has a great "Humbug" card pak available. "A little sassy, a lot organic, somewhat shabby, and very cute, the Humbug collection is the perfect choice for an out of this world gorgeous Christmas card! There are two card versions, one vertical and one horizontal, each available as a png file with a cutout for your photo, and also as a jpg file to give you more freedom of use. Look for the coordinating paper pak, elements pak, and quickie pages pak!"
3. Shabby Princess has "a collection of FIVE Holiday cards...each card in two sizes (5x7" and 4x6")...all in .png file formats (works like an overlay). These are super easy to use...each one has a transparent 'window' for you to place your photo underneath. Add journaling...or anything else you want...and you are done! (Instructions are included in the zip file.)"


























Amazing cards!!!
Posted by: Emily | November 05, 2005 at 11:53 AM
Jen this is an awesome page of inspirational card ideas and i am so chuffed to have been able to contribute in a small way. congratulations and thanks for providing this wonderful resource :)
Posted by: Anita Stergiou | November 07, 2005 at 09:07 AM
What a GREAT job you are doing on this site! AND congrats on your premier issue of DMM!!! WELL DONE!!!!!
Posted by: Sue | November 11, 2005 at 02:20 AM