Christmas Bauble Cards

I made this cards a couple of weeks ago and really liked how they turned out, again a set of 3. I've used Always Artichoke, River Rock and Very Vanilla for all three. I think these colours look great together. Here's the first one:


Stamp Sets: Season of Joy and True Friend
Ink: Always Artichoke
Accessories: Always Artichoke grosgrain ribbon, gold brads, dimensionals, Boho Blossoms Punch, 1 1/4 and 1 3/8 circle punches and mini glue dots.
Here's the second card:

For the baubles on this card I used the snow flake from the Season of Joy stamp set. I also stamped the polka dot background stamp on the base of the card a little something extra which I really like.

And the third card:

I've used River Rock for the card base and stamped the polka dot background in River Rock ink, apart from that everything else is the same.

For the bows on the cards I stuck the lengths of Artichoke ribbon on the card at the desired lengths using double sided tape. I then tied each bow individually and stuck them down using mini glue dots - they worked a treat.

Season of Joy with some Holiday Harmony

Here are a set of 3 cards I made using the fantastic Season of Joy stamp set and the Holiday Harmony Designer Series Paper from the spring mini catalogue:Stamp set: Season of Joy, Many Merry Messages

Ink: Always Artichoke and River Rock

Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke, River Rock

Accessories: Holiday Harmony Designer Series Paper, gold brads, dimensionals, artichoke grosgrain ribbon

Stamp Set: Season of Joy

Ink: Always Artichoke and More Mustard

Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke, Purely Pomegranate

Accessories: Holiday Harmony Designer Series Paper, Purely Pomegranate sating ribbon, gold brads, dimensionals, large oval punch and mini glue dots

Oh My Goodness I LOVE LOVE LOVE this satin ribbon. If you don't have any of this you need some!!! I tied this bow separately and used mini glue dots to attach it to the card.

Stamp sets: Season of Joy
Ink: Always Artichoke and River Rock
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke and River Rock
Accessories: Large oval punch, artichoke grosgrain ribbon, gold brads, holiday harmony designer series paper and dimensionals

I really love these colours together and the go so well this the patterned paper currently available in the spring mini catalogue.

simple christmas cards

Here are a couple of quick and simple cards I made the other day:Stamp sets: Season of Joy, Many Merry Messages and Snow Flurries

Ink; Blue Bayou and Soft Sky

Cardstock: Whisper White, Soft Sky and Blue Bayou

Accessories: 2 way glue pen , embossing buddy and glitter

I made a set of 3 using the same layout and stuff. As you can see this card is very simple to make. I stamped the swirl first in soft sky randomly over entire piece of cardstock. I then stamped the snow flurry in blue bayou where I wanted them. I stuck the white to the blue bayou later and then to the soft sky card base. I lined up the card on my grid paper and stamped the greeting in the middle. I wiped the embossing buddy over entire card, used the 2 way glue pen over the snow flurries and then applied the glitter - simple right?

Here's the second one, I've just added some paper piercing to this one:

When you look closely I pierced holes along the dots of some of the swirls to add a little something extra. For this card I only put glitter on a few of the snow flurries.

The third one I added some ribbon:

Thanks for stopping bye, I'll be back with some more chrissy cards for you.

Season of Joy in Blue

Here is the Season of Joy stamp set again but this time in bluesStamp Sets: Season of Joy, Canvas background
Ink: Sage Shadow, Bashful Blue, Whisper White
Accessories: white grosgrain ribbon, dimensionals, glitter, 2 way glue pen, embossing buddy

This is a simple and easy layout and quick to make.

Another Season of Joy Christmas

Stamp set: Season Of Joy
Cardstock: Real Red, Very Vanilla
Ink: Real Red, River Rock
Patterned Paper: Dashing
Accessories: River Rock double stitched ribbon, glitter, dimensionals, circle punch, 2 way glue pen, embossing buddy

I used the small flower stamp inked in River Rock to randomly stamp on the patterned paper. The snow flake is punched out and mounted using dimensionals. I used the 2 way glue pen and added glitter. The embossing buddy is good to use before applying glitter to your card to help prevent glitter ending up all over your card where you don't want it.

Season Of Joy

Here are some christmas cards using the Season Of Joy set from the spring mini catalogue. I've used Old Olive, Real Red and Very Vanilla or whisper White on all 3 cards. For the background strip I stamped the small flower randomly using the olive and red ink. I inked the season of joy image with red ink then again in olive ink and cut out the '&' symbol, the snowflake and the tree and mount them using dimensionals.Same layout here but I've used Double Sided Patterned Paper instead of stamping the background for a little bit of a differnt look.I really like this one. I stamped the tree twice onto the cardstock and a third time on a piece of scrap and cut it out and mounted it using dimensionals in the centre. The bow was tied separately and stuck on using mini glue dots. I used the Merry Christmas from the Occasional Greetings stamp set and the large oval punch.