Cup of Christmas

To finish out this year’s Christmas cards, I stuck with the same washi sheets and color palette as the last card. I changed out my dies and made a cute little card featuring festive coffee mugs.

I made a variation with a different color scheme:

• Stamps: Christmas Bliss

• Ink: Real Red; Cherry Cobbler

• Cardstock: Real Red; Cherry Cobbler; Pear Pizzazz; Just Jade

• Accessories: Wonder of the Season Ribbon; Real Red Ruched Ribbon; Old Olive Sheer Ribbon

• Tools: Cup of Cheer Dies; Stitched So Sweetly Dies; Stars Embossing Folder; Circles Embossing Folder

Merry and Bright DSP

A super simple Christmas card that really highlights the beautiful DSP. I cut a ton of strips of paper and just started making various combinations to create these six cards. To help highlight the sentiment, I added a nice background layer in gold and silver.

• Stamps: Christmas Bliss; Wrapped in Christmas

• Ink: Real Red; Shaded Spruce

• Cardstock: Tis the Season DSP; Gold Foil; Silver Glimmer Paper; Shaded Spruce; Garden Green; Real Red; Cherry Cobbler

• Accessories: various embellishments

• Tools: Stitched Shapes Dies; Punch

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:

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:

Peekaboo Santa and Reindeer

Today’s card came from my need to color all the things!!! I colored a ton of Santas and reindeers and then had to figure out what to do with them. So I made some peekaboo panels to layer on top of these fun characters. Love it! I did a few different variations. Really love these cards.

All the variations:

• Stamps: Color Me Christmas; Christmas Bliss

• Ink: Basic Black; Shaded Spruce; Cherry Cobbler; various Stampin’ Blends

• Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler; Mint Macaron; Shaded Spruce; Old Olive; Real Red

• Accessories: Star Designer Elements; Toile Ridings Glitter Enamel Dots; various enamel shapes

• Tools: Softly Falling Embossing Folder; Diagonal Stripes Embossing Folder; Brick Wall Embossing Folder; Circle Dies; Layering Circle Dies

30 Days of Christmas Cards Day 29

I had almost an entire stack of this Nordic Noel DSP hanging out doing nothing. So of course I wanted to feature it on a card. Simple layering and some sparkly accessories complete today's card.

• Stamps: Christmas Bliss
• Inks: Real Red
• Cardstock: Nordic Noel DSP (retired); Real Red; Garden Green; Silver Glimmer Paper
• Accessories: Frosted Sequins
• Tools:

30 Days of Christmas Cards Day 11

Here's a great way to use up those scraps of patterned paper. Fill a card with circles! I added the bits of burlap at the end to help fill the card.

• Stamps: Christmas Bliss
• Inks: Cherry Cobbler
• Cardstock: Trim the Tree DSP (retired); Early Espresso; Pistachio Pudding (retired); Whisper White
• Accessories: Burlap
• Tools: 1 1/4" Circle Punch

30 Days of Christmas Cards Day 5

For today's card, I'm again using the awesome retired Festival of Prints paper stack. I decided to run with some diagonal paper strips to create my background. Apparently I'm really digging my Festival of Trees stamp set lately... Prepare to see it for a few more days. 

• Stamps: Festival of Trees; Christmas Bliss
• Inks: Mossy Meadow; Cherry Cobbler
• Cardstock: Festival of Prints DSP (retired); Cherry Cobbler; Crumb Cake; Very Vanilla; Pear Pizzaz; Gold
• Accessories:
• Tools: Tree Punch; Star Punch

30 Days of Christmas Cards Day 4

Two variations of a nice clean design today. I always forget that I own this stars confetti punch. I love the look of having the Old Olive paper peek through. Beyond the stars, I went very clean with a simple palette. I'm a huge fan of these cards.

• Stamps: Six Sayings; Festival of Trees; Christmas BlIss (retired)
• Inks: Mossy Meadow
• Cardstock: Mossy Meadow; Old Olive; Whisper White; Gold Paper
• Accessories:
• Tools: Star Confetti Punch; Tree Punch

30 Days of Christmas Cards - Day 2

Day 2's card uses a one of SU's retired paper stacks, but one that's still being loved: Festival of Trees! I love that this card has so many great layers. The colors all work together to create a very busy card.

I made four different variations using a variety of paper patterns.

• Stamps: 25 Days (retired); Christmas Bliss (inside sentiment)
• Inks: Cherry Cobbler
• Cardstock: Festival of Prints DSP (retired); Cherry Cobbler; Crumb Cake; Mossy Meadow; Pear Pizzaz; Gold
• Accessories:
• Tools: Tree Punch; Circles Framelits; Stars Framelits; Stars Embossing Folder