Scrapbook & Cards Today Blog: 12 days of holiday giving! Day Ten!

Good morning SCT friends! It's Day 10 of our "12 days of holiday giving!" and while we don't have ten lords-a-leaping for you, we have some fantastic products to give away! With the vision of ten lords-a-leaping in your minds (sorry for that!) let's sing our favourite song!

On the 10th day of SCT's "12 days of holiday giving" SCT gave to me...

"Hey everyone, it's Laura Vegas here! When I sit down to create Christmas cards, I love to come up with designs that are simple, quick, and easy to mass produce. I use this same concept when I create birthday cards, since I use so many of them. I also love to keep my cards fairly flat, so that they don't require any extra postage or special handling when mailing off to family and friends. If I happen to create more elaborate or bulky designs, I save those for the ones that I personally hand out.

These cards took no time at all to put together. I chose a sentiment and a scalloped border to die cut using my Silhouette Cameo, and arranged them on my cutting mat so that I could cut multiple sets at once. I used three different strips of patterned paper on my mat, lining them up so that I cut 2 sets (a sentiment and a border) from each paper. If you were doing a large amount of cards, you could even cut all 6 sets from the same patterned paper, and then repeat for your other paper choices.

Supplies: Cardstock: American Crafts; Patterned paper: Simple Stories; Misting spray: Studio Calico, Heidi Swapp; Die cut machine: Silhouette; Sewing machine: Singer

I also cut the "merry" part of my sentiment from a black chalkboard patterned paper (arranging as many as needed on my cutting mat), which was layered over the original sentiment cut. Once my pieces were cut, it was just a matter of adhering them to my cards.

I adhered two thin coordinating strips of patterned paper along the bottom of each card base, which I also lightly spritzed with misting spray in coordinating colors. I adhered my scalloped border die cuts to each card, matching the color of my border to the color of misting spray on each card base. Then I decided which color sentiment I wanted on each card, and adhered those in place. A little machine stitching and I was finished! Happy holidays!" ~ Laura Vegas

DAY TEN GIVEAWAYS!!!

Each of these 10 days we are always excited to share what our amazing sponsors have offered to our readers. Today is no exception! Today's prize package is from our friends at Stampin' Up! and Gossamer Blue! Time to share...

In order to kick the year off right and get all the great memories from 2014 recorded, this fabulous Stampin’ Up! prize package includes:

12” x 12” Album
12” x 12” Photo Pocket Pages
Happiness Is Card Collection
Happiness Is Accessory Pack
Journaling Pens
Project Life Day to Day Stamp Set

Fabulous right? But wait, there's more!

"Gossamer Blue's 2014 December Memories kit includes a custom 6×8 album with 31 page protectors, 4x6 clear stamp set, 6x8 papers, 3x4 and 4x6 journaling cards and all of the embellishment trimmings! Gossamer Blue is thankful to be a small part of Scrapbook & Cards Today's 12 Days of Holiday Giving and wishes for each of you a safe, crafty and joyful holiday season!" ~ Lori, owner of Gossamer Blue

Fabulous prizes from fabulous sponsors! How lucky are we?

For an opportunity to win, please leave a comment below by 6:00 pm EST on Sunday, December 21st. All prizes will be announced right here and on Facebook at noon on December 23rd! Good luck everyone! One winner will be selected for each day! Please then take a moment to give today's sponsor a huge "SCT thank you!" They have LOVED hearing from you each day! For today's sponsors, please visit them on Facebook here:

Stampin' Up!

Gossamer Blue

For even MORE chances to win today's prizes, be sure to check out this fabulous contest below!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

I also want to take a moment to say how thankful we are for YOU and just how much we love these 12 days of giving. We love that you have thanked our sponsors where you can and we love that last night, we hit 98K facebook fans too!!! THANK YOU for always being right there and inspiring us to do what we do. Have a wonderful day

~ Catherine

Comments

Another day of awesomeness!!! Love Stampin' Up's box of goodies! That would be a sweet Christmas present! Thanks for the chance to win!!

Posted by: Janetta Zeimetz | December 17, 2014 at 10:21 AM

Love the Christmas Cards by Laura Vegas. So easy and yet so pretty! The Gossamer Blue prize pack sounds sweet! Thanks SCT for hosting this giveaway!!

Posted by: Janetta Zeimetz | December 17, 2014 at 10:24 AM

yay first comment :) amazing giveaway - those cards are so cute!!!

Posted by: Rubeena | December 17, 2014 at 10:25 AM

Another day filled with amazing prizes!! Thank you so much for all you do for us!! Congratulations on 98k fans on Facebook! One hundred thousand here we come!

Posted by: barbara macaskill | December 17, 2014 at 10:32 AM

What a yummy prize package :-) I'm really enjoying all the creativity going on here. Thanks SCT for your awesome holiday spirit and amazing giveaway prizes!

Posted by: Brenda Fusco | December 17, 2014 at 10:34 AM

Another great prize pack. Thanks for letting us participate.

Posted by: Elaine Hollander | December 17, 2014 at 10:40 AM

Great giveaway. Love the Christmas Cards

Posted by: Dionne | December 17, 2014 at 10:41 AM

What a wonderful prize thank you for the chance. Merry Christmas all!

Posted by: Michelle Herman | December 17, 2014 at 10:45 AM

the sentiment being the focus of the card, how interesting and effectively delivers the festive message!

Posted by: Paperpapier | December 17, 2014 at 10:57 AM

Great idea for a card. Letting the Silhouette do most of the work. I usually need about 80 cards for Christmas. This would be a great design for them. Thanks for the idea and the great prizes today.

Posted by: Helen Van Daalen | December 17, 2014 at 10:58 AM