My Christmas Cards!

Guess who got her Gypsy this week??!?!?!?! ME!!!
I'm so happy I love this thing! My husband decided it was time for an early Xmas gift since I was wasting so much paper with the Winter Frolic Cartridge. We also will be making wall decor for the baby's room with Create a Critter so I will be getting on that project soon too! He's due in March so I have a little bit of time, but not much!

Now for today I will be sharing one of my Christmas cards I made with the Gypsy and Winter Frolic.

I used pre-made card bases I bought at Michaels in a 50 pack with envelopes.  I used white but they come in many colors.
I cut a cardstock mat the same size (6 1/2 X 5) in a solid color
I cut two different coordinating cardstock strips at 6 1/4x 2 1/4
Where the two meet I placed a piece of ribbon across the card
I cut my characters on my cricut expression using my gypsy and Winter Frolic Cartridge at 2 1/2 inches.
I first tried 3 1/2 but they were HUGE. I think 2 1/2 or if you prefer a bit larger try 3 inches.

I glued my characters and added some doodling, googly eyes (at 2 1/2 inches the eyes are WAY too small to cut) and stickles. I was lucky enough to snag the christmas stickles when I could - my local scrapbook store can't keep Xmas Red in stock! Thank goodness Michaels carries it!
For the Mouse card, I didn't yet own a cute stamp so I printed the sentiment at 16 using Bradley ITC and Bold in navy blue. I then had to hand cut the words and hand cut the navy blue matting.  The paper for both cards is the Winter collection from DCWV. I can't cut my characters with the textured DCWV to save my life, and if anyone has a suggestion I'd appreciate it, so far it's not working! SO the characters are a mix of Bazzill Basics (love at first cut) and Recollections solid cardstock.
I used my pink atg gun to adhere everything except for the characters... I used foam dots to raise them from the card to add dimension.
Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoy the cards as much as I enjoyed making them!

-Lindsey F