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A Divalicious Xmas in July


Welcome to the Creative Scrapbooking Divas Christmas in July Blog Hop!
It may not feel like snow outside in the northern hemisphere, but if we get started on holiday projects now, we might be ready by December--we would love for you to plan and play along!

Please join us as we share with you the wonderful holiday projects of CSDivas. Comment on our blog hop thread starting Saturday, July 9, 2011 to begin!


If you are just joining us now, you can go to Luisa’s blog to start at the beginning so you won’t miss a hop stop and be eligible for the blog hop prize.

Here is the CSDivas DivaliciousXmas in July Blog Hop Grand Prize:

To earn a ticket you need to:
1) Live a comment in each of the hop stops.
2) Leave a comment at the CSDivas blog when you are done.

After done that, you can earn extra tickets by:
a) Become a follower of our CSDivas blog!
b) Become a Fan of our Facebook Fan Page
c) Add a Xmas project to Mr Linky below

Our Tour List:
Luisa - Creative Designs by Luisa http://www.creativedesignsbyluisa.com/
Sandy - ScrapBook Blessings http://www.scrapbookblessings.blogspot.com/
Stephanie – The Magic of Ordinary Days http://todaysmagical.blogspot.com/
Jessica- Jessica's Blog http://jessicascraftshaque.blogspot.com/
Yolie – Just Yolie, Just Create http://www.justyolie.com/
Vanessa – Creating Sensations http://creatingsensations.blogspot.com/
Alecia - Welcome to Alecia's http://freakalecias.blogspot.com/

Since I focus on Cards and Cricut at CSDivas, I wanted t do Xmas cards for this blog!!!!  I have to admit, (gasp) I just started.  I try to at least have an idea of what I want to do but I've been putting it off, until now, lol!


Last year, I did a paper piecing card from cuts I made from my Cricut.  I only had to make 4 cuts, a little chalking, some stickles and I was all set. The hardest part was designing my card.  But when I put it all together, it made this beautiful winter scene...


This year I wanted to do a joy fold card.  They are one of my favorites.  You can find the tutorial HERE.
The hardest part was figuering out how I wanted to design my card.  Once I got that down, the rest was history.  I was able to complete 12 cards in a hour and that was with all my "MOM" interruptions!

My biggest tip is to do all your cutting, folding and stamping prep work first, assemble second and embellish third.  It is like an assembly line. 

Now you're ready for the fun part, putting you card together!!!  Here it is the family card for 2011...  It ended up being a vertical joy fold card.

 With a little bit of a easel card twist, lol.
 But I think... very cute!
Plus at the bottom, I can add a little note to the out of towners!
TIPS FOR YOUR XMAS CARDS....
1 Start making your cards NOW!!!!  Decide if you want it simple so you can mass produce and send out to everybody or if you just want to make a dozen and give to extra special people and family.  I tend to do the second.  I buy my cards after Xmas and save them for the year.  Then I fill those out to give to people out of state or just friends etc.  I make about 12-15 craft Xmas cards for close family and friends.  I adverage about 35 cards every Xmas.

2 Cut anyone off the list you haven't talked to or heard from in over 3 years.

3 Before Thanksgiving hits and officially kicks off the holiday season, write out your cards.

4 Buy stamps for your cards right after Thanksgiving. Many stamps are festively-themed at this time, and the lines will be shorter at the post office the earlier in December you go.

5 Set a deadline to mail the cards by the first weekend in December. This will put them out of your hands in plenty of time for you to get started on the rest of your holiday season preparations.

6 Try to keep track of who you get cards from during the holiday season. Keep all evelopes with return addresses you receive in a separate basket and sort through them after the New Year, making a note in your address book of those you received from. This will make the process of figuring who to send to next year a bit easier.

Divas—don’t forget to comment here on the main CSDivas blog when you are done!
We would love to see what you come up with for Xmas!!! Please post your entries using Mr Linky by July 12th 7 pm eastern, for two tickets to be entered to win the hop prize.

If you leave a comment on my blog here and CSDivas blog.  You can win my little Rak too!!!!

Thanks for hopping and have a very merry Divalicious Xmas!


(Remember: post a comment at the blog hop thread and let us know you've left comments on all the Diva blogs for a ticket to win, thanks! )
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Comments

  1. Beautiful cards and great suggestions... happy blog hop!
    alecia

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  2. I am a new follower... Love your cards
    celeste
    celeste@touchedbyabutterfly.com

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  3. Sandy, did you create a new style card by pulling together the joy fold and the easel? great idea! Love both and great idea for an assembly line, too.
    :O)
    Jessica

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  4. Love your site!:) Can't wait to try that joy fold card!:) Thanks for sharing your tips for xmas cards!:)

    Congrats to CSDivas for the new mansion!:)

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  5. Beautiful Xmas cards...love your easel card, different from what I've seen, I may have to give it a try. :)

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  6. Great ideas for completing cards. Love your easel card. thank you for the inspiration!

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  7. Great ideas for Christmas cards.

    Jani
    papercompulsions dot blogspot dot com

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  8. Great job Sandy! I'm so inspired by you and Luisa to start getting my cards together! Thanks for the tips and tutorial!

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  9. Great job Sandy! I'm so inspired by you and Luisa to start getting my cards together! Thanks for the tips and tutorial!

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  10. Luv the cards! I am a new follower here! Thanks for sharing!

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  11. Super cute card love the fold.... Thanks for idea!

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  12. Lovely card. I love seeing new folds like this.

    Smiles Sher
    ShersL84bed@aol.com

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  13. Awesome blog hop so far and I'm actually getting inspired to start early with my holiday card making! Really like all your tips and hints for setting up an assembly line project.

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  14. Wow! I really love that card and the great fold. I have to try that out for sure. I'm a follower, but Blogger is not showing up for some reason. :( Thanks for the chance to win the awesome RAK! Love it! :0)

    Be sure to stop by my blog to enter my 500 followers giveaway!


    XO ~ Amy Jo (follower)
    amyjrockstar at gmail dot com
    http://lv2scrapandfibrofacts.blogspot.com/

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  15. This is so beautiful! I love the unique fold - I am going to have to give that a try! Your follower list isn't showing up (grr, Blogger!) so I will have to stop back later to follow you :)

    Lisa
    http://indymermaid.blogspot.com

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  16. Wow Sandy!! You do 35 cards? That is very impressive! Thank you so much for all the great tips! Your card is really lovely! I've been following you for a very long time!...Nancy :o)

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  17. Thank you all for hopping along! This was such fun! And my Xmas cards are all done to boot, lol!!!

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  18. Hi Sandy! You are a rock star with your card tips!
    I agree with the assembly line- it just makes everything easier.
    Thank you for linking up to Christmas in July at MBC:)
    C:)

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