Jolly Holiday SCT's 1-day Christmas in July cardmaking event

I also prefer connected word dies. Not sure how I'll end up feeling about these by Saturday night....

So working on Cathy's homework. And don't really need to decide this now, but....

Now that we've established that most of us are not at all fond of Carissa's pink tree, how are we feeling about Cathy's partly purple tree? I'm thinking of maybe using more C&9th and blending some kind of blue through teal to green...maybe harbor, tide pool, sea glass? But not purple....

Also, thanks for all the congrats on the job!

I seem to have replaced pink lemonade with a glimmery silver. I don’t think the parsley’s working for me either though.

Yes, I think the eucalyptus with the darker traditional Christmas colors is going to work -- it's kind of the color combo in Meghann's first card. And Meghann's color sense is closer to mine than Carissa's.


To me, purple just doesn't say Christmas -- possibly less Christmas-y than pink. Pink is at least a derivative of red, so if I squint real hard, pink and green are Christmas colors. Not appealing ones to me, but Christmas colors nonetheless. Purple-to-blue, though? Just doesn't do it....

Cathy’s first and Meghann’s third.

Meghann’s second is also done. I lost the sentiments for Cathy’s third, so I should probably be searching and tidying instead of resting and posting.

I am not fond of shakers and decided I just really didn’t have one in me today. I spent that time noodling on other alternatives and doing some organizing.

I think I'm going to use Cathy's C&S gold and white color scheme, but make Carissa's bonus spinner card.

I think I have two more cards completed and maybe two others ABS (all but sequins), but I am too tired to find and photograph 'em....

I added the sequins onto Carissa's tree card this morning. I recovered all the parts to Cathy's third card just as Carissa's class started, so that still needs to be assembled. And of course, the door.

I found the word dies with the separate letters and the inlays to not be as bad as I feared. I did at some point figure out that when doing the inlays, it worked better to put the glue in the space, dispense with the tweezers, and place the inserts with fingers or wax tool, depending on size.

The free-stamped background with Carissa was ok. I didn't feel particularly "empowered" or whatever it was folks were describing in the comments, but it kind of worked. And I think I can hide the worst of where it didn't work with die cuts.