More Stacked Snowmen

Today’s card is a repeat of my the stacked snowmen from Lots of Cheer stamp set. I pulled out two more colored snowmen and tried to decide how to feature the image. I landed on a watercolored piece of paper to serve as a backdrop. From there I layered more cardstock and a piece of scrap DSP to create my base. I added a tone on tone sentiment, popped up the snowman on dimensionals, and finished the card with a glittery chipboard star.

Stamps: Lots of Cheer
Ink: Cherry Cobbler; Old Olive; Various Stampin’ Blends
Cardstock: Under the Mistletoe DSP (retired); DSP scrap; Granny Apple Green; Cherry Cobbler; Whisper White
Accessories: Glitter Chipboard Stars
Tools: Oval Dies

Simple Panels

Today’s card is a simple panel card featuring images from the retired Color Me Christmas stamp set. I love the nontraditional Christmas colors featured on this card. They just make me happy! This cute card was finished off with various ribbon scraps. I had this random silver ribbon sitting in my stash. It paired perfectly with these colors.

Stamps: Christmas Bliss; Color Me Christmas (retired)
Ink: Flirty Flamingo; Lemon Lime Twist; Crumb Cake; Pool Party
Cardstock: Flirty Flamingo; Lemon Lime Twist; Crumb Cake; Pool Party; Whisper White
Accessories: Ribbon scraps
Tools:

Embellished Tree

Today’s card features a great Christmas tree embossing folder I picked last year on deep clearance. I couldn’t figure out a way to feature it in a card design. Finally I figured, why not make it the feature of the card? And so I embossing a piece of Shaded Spruce, cut it out with an Oval Die and layered it all on some fun DSP. For a final touch, I added some enamel shapes. Perfect!

Stamps:
Ink:
Cardstock: All is Bright DSP (retired); Real Red; Shaded Spruce
Accessories: Toile Tidings Enamel Shapes; Metallic Enamel Shapes
Tools: Christmas Tree Embossing Folder; Layering Ovals Dies

Strips of Christmas

Today’s card inspiration comes from this card from Claire Daly @ Claire Daly Creates. . Another simple Christmas card to highlight great DSP scraps.

Variations:

Stamps: Making Christmas Bright
Ink: Real Red; Merry Merlot
Cardstock: Christmas Around the World DSP (retired); Joyous Noel DSP (retired); Pool Party; Real Red; Basic Gray; Old Olive; Early Espresso; Soft Suede; Crumb Cake; Whisper White
Accessories: Real Red Ribbon; Tranquil Tide Ribbon (retired)
Tools: Layering Circles Dies; Stitched Shapes Dies

Simple Christmas Bliss

Today’s card inspiration comes from this card from Narelle Fasulo @ Simply Stamping with Narelle. I love simple Christmas cards featuring great DSP and this design was perfect! I pulled from my box of Christmas DSP scraps to create three different cards.

Variations:

Stamps: Christmas Bliss
Ink: Real Red; Old Olive; Shaded Spruce
Cardstock: All is Bright DSP (retired); Under the Mistletoe DSP (retired); Christmas Around the World DSP (retired); Real Red; Old Olive; Shaded Spruce; Whisper White
Accessories: Rhinestones; Toile Tidings Enamel Shapes; Pearls
Tools:

Frosty Christmas

Today’s card inspiration comes from this card from Linda Dalke. I love the look of silver and navy on Christmas cards so I knew I had to dedicate at least one design to the color combination. I kept this card fairly simple in design allowing the shine to really come through. My favorite part is the silver glimmer paper peeking out from under the sentiment.

Stamps:
Ink: Night of Navy
Cardstock: Merry Music DSP (retired); Night of Navy; Silver Glimmer Paper; Whisper White
Accessories: Metallic Snowflakes
Tools: Layering Circles Dies; Stitched Shapes Dies

Stacked Snowmen

Today’s card came from my love of coloring! This time I wanted to feature this cute stacked present snowman. I colored a few images and then built cards around the snowmen. Easy peasy.

Variation:

Stamps: Lots of Cheer
Ink: Basic Black; Night of Navy; Highland Heather; Various Stampin’ Blends
Cardstock: Wrapped in Plaid DSP; Night of Navy; Real Red; Smoky Slate; Mint Macaron; Highland Heather; Blushing Bride; Whisper White; various DSP scraps
Accessories: Star Designer Elements; various other embellishments
Tools: Stitched Shapes Dies; Stitched Rectangles Dies; Softly Falling Embossing Folder; Ovals Dies

Lots of Baubles

Today’s card inspiration comes from this card from Linda Dalke. I love the shine on this design and had to make my own! This card definitely took the longest to create of any cards this season, but the results are stunning! I first embossed my ornaments in gold (2), silver (2), pewter, and copper. From there I picked a few color combination to color the ornaments with my Stampin’ Blends. I made two more traditional color ornaments and four frosty winter ornaments. For my sentiment, I kept it simple with a heat embossed Deck the Halls.

Detail of the shine:

Variations of colors. I think the blues with the copper embossing might be my favorite!

Stamps: Beautiful Baubles
Ink: Lots of Stampin’ Blends
Cardstock: Highland Heather; Real Red; Night of Navy; Pretty Peacock; Old Olive
Accessories:
Tools: Copper Embossing Powder; Gold Embossing Powder; Pewter Embossing Powder; Silver Embossing Power

Reindeers in a Row

Today’s card features a trio of reindeers and the new Wrapped in Plaid DSP. I took my color cues directly from the paper. I love the combo of Shaded Spruce, Cherry Cobbler, and Night of Navy with hints of gold. I kept the rest of the card simple with a coordinating ribbon and some sparkles for noses.

Variations:

Stamps: Merry Mistletoe
Ink: Crumb Cake; Merry Merlot; Night of Navy; Shaded Spruce
Cardstock: Wrapped in Plaid DSP; Shaded Spruce; Early Espresso; Whisper White
Accessories: Holiday Rhinestones; Pearls; Shaded Spruce/Gold 3/8” Striped Ribbon; Gold Ribbon (retired); Real Red Satin Ribbon (retired); Candy Dots (retired); Enamel Dots (retired)
Tools:

Holiday Catalog Swaps

Every new catalog, the demo team I am on does a card swap. I love seeing designs from other demos and stamp sets I don't have. Check out this catalog's examples:

Kathy Thisted