WOOHOO! I did it I finally got rid of my "Stampers Block"! For the longest time I would sit down to do some stampin' and I would end up just sittin' no stampin'. I would search my favorite inspiration site and nothing I was just feeling blah about everything I saw and could not get inspired to stamp, so I would not. I guess the pressure of Christmas a month away, or maybe the extra free time to let my mind wonder while my husband has been away helped me get passed it. I don't know, not sure...I am just glad the stamping drought is over.
I will attempt to send all 4 (woohoo! 4) card ideas via email but they may get rejected due to file size so you may have to check them out on my blog.
Idea 1: White card snowman and tree on front
Card stock: Plain white card stock from walmart for the base (I know it sounds cheap but if I have to make a bunch as Christmas cards I have got to cut cost somewhere), Whisper white for where I stamped the snow man, bashful blue designer print.
Stamps: Mr. Twigster (love this set), warmest regards (retired)
Ink: Basic black, Riding hood red
Techniques: I colored the scarf, nose and ornaments with my water color pencils. Ready for a totally fun, super cool new technique? The whole piece of whisper white I embossed with my iridescent embossing powder. This technique is suppose to be called "cracked glass". You emboss the entire surface 3 to 4 times and then you can literally crack it and it looks like cracked glass. Since I did not have the same embossing powder mine did not crack but it does look like snow, don't you think? If you want more on this technique send me an email and I will explain more.
Idea 2:White card snowman and lights
Card stock: Same cheap card stock from walmart for base, whisper white to stamp on, bashful blue designer print.
Stamps: Mr. Twigster, Hugs and wishes
Ink: Basic black, Riding hood red
Techniques: Watercolor pencils, cracked glass embossing technique which again mine is not cracked just the illusion of snow.
Love both of these. Super simple would be totally easy and inexpensive to make a bunch of. Now for something a bit more "formal" I guess you would say.
Idea 3:Old olive card with polka dots
Card stock: Old Olive, River rock (last years incolors), whisper white (now that I am looking at it, it should of been very vanilla-oh well)
Designer print: Dashing (retired, again cutting cost by forcing myself to use what I have on hand)
Ribbon: Red grosgrain that I got for $0.10 for the entire spool!
Ink: River rock
Tools: CM square punch
Stamps: Mr. Twigster, The snowflake spot for the word Joy which you can barely see.
Technique: dragging of the edges of the squares
Idea 4: Old olive card with Christmas ball ornament
Card stock: Old olive, real read, river rock(last years in color) very vanilla
Designer prints: Dashing (last years Christmas)
Stamps: Mr. Twigster, The snowflake spot
Tools: CM circle cutter, Tag punch, crop-a-dile
Ribbon: just what I had laying around
Just a side note on this card, you could make just the ornament portion of this card decorate one side and on the other side do the whole To: From: thing and it would be super cute gift tag on presents.
I thought it was fun to see this stamp set used in both a cutsie and more formal card. I hope you enjoyed. Be sure to check out my blog to view the holiday mini catalog, it is not too late to order your Christmas card supplies.
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