Quick Christmas Cards

Did you know that each year, Stampin' Up! donates a portion of sales from a specific product to global cause? This is called the Product Give Back. You can "Craft for a Cause" and know that you are helping towards this cause.

This year, the Product is Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper (DSP).

It's easy to make a stack of quick Christmas cards with the designs of this paper.

Here is just one example.

The Reindeer image is simply fussy cut straight from a page of the paper.

Add some ribbon, bling, a sentiment, and one of the other designed in the paper pack, and you have this card! I have put this on a card base of Pretty Peacock, as I think it sets it all off in the best way.

What do you think?

A special card for an 80th Birthday

A couple of months ago, we celebrated my Mum's 80th birthday.

In all that was happening at the time, I don't think I even took a photo of the card I made for her!

Now my neighbours Mum is turning 80 this month, and I have taken my time to make a special card for her (my neighbour) to give.

I had a lot of fun making this card. It features the Layers of Beauty Bundle. This bundle includes Stamps, Dies and Stencils - which make colouring the large stamped image a breeze!!

Using watercolour paper, I stamped the large image in Crumb Cake ink.

Then using the stencils and blending brushes, I coloured the image with Petal Pink and Flirty Flamingo on the flowers and Old Olive and Mossy Meadow for the leaves.

That got me to this stage..

This had been my first play with this bundle, and this image sat on my desk for a time before I actually decided to use it for this card.

From there, I did some water colouring with blue ink (which I already had in a water painter with water) all around the image.

I'm quite happy with how it turned out - what do you think of the finished results??

Since this wasn't a standard size card, I also needed to make an envelope for it (obviously 😆).

I stamped the large flower image again and used the stencils on it as well. I then used a blending brush to add a little colour around the image again - to match the card.

Let me know what you think or if you have any questions.