Do you like to make your Christmas Cards quick and easy?  I do!  I guess I feel that the quick and easy Christmas Cards are also the ones that turn out to be the most elegant and striking.  This is one of the cards that I’ll be making this Christmas for family and friends because I just love the way it looks in real life.

This card is so quick and easy it really just takes minutes to create.  I stamped the “do not open until Dec 25th” image in Old Olive ink on a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock and then punched it out with the matching Designer Label punch.  The image was then adhered to the back of the Designer Label metal hardware (Hodgepodge) using Crystal Effects.  Crystal Effects is traditionally used to add a glaze or dimension to an image but I love using it as a glue, especially for this purpose because the nib is the size of the groove on the back of the Hodgepodge Hardware so I can quickly and easily draw a line of glue on the back then pop the image in and leave it for a minute to dry.

The base of the card is textured cardstock that I slipped into an embossing folder then ran it through the Big Shot to give me that beautiful embossed background.  Although the embossed image isn’t a Christmas one, I think it still works well.  I then placed the Hodgepodge onto the card and secured it with two clear rhinestone brads and finished the card off with the wide striped grosgrain ribbon tied around the card front with a simple knot.  The great thing about using wide ribbon is that it becomes a major embellishment in itself so you don’t feel like the card needs anything else.

So will you be making quick and easy Christmas cards this year?

I’ve listed below all the products I’ve used but if you have any questions at all about this card or if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up! products then please feel free to email me.

Rubber Stamps:
Winter Post

Inkpads:
Old Olive

Cardstock & Paper:
Old Olive Textured
Very Vanilla

Accessories:
Old Olive Striped Grosgrain Ribbon
Designer Label hardware (Hodgepodge)
Clear Rhinestone Brads

Tools:
Big Shot Machine
Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder
Designer Label Punch

Adhesives:
Crystal Effects

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Would you like to spend a lovely Saturday crafting with me?  I’m going to be teaching cardmaking and my friend Sonia from Forever Always is going to be teaching scrapbooking on Saturday 18th at Chatswood West Community Centre (Sydney).  The class is being put together by the wonderful Notebook Magazine and is sure to be a relaxing yet fun day, plus there will be a little thank you gift from me for everyone who attends.

There will also be a BYO Craft Afternoon Tea on the same day from 12:00pm to 4:00pm – again, this will be held by the lovely people of Notebook Magazine.

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All these products for sale.  Some stamps are brand new, others lightly used and some well used.  Please email angelasargeant@gmail.com for condition of stamps and prices of those you are interested in.

Discount for bulk buys.  Postage is separate but will do the cheapest postage possible.

All stamps are woodmount and come in their plastic container unless specified.

Please note that while this list is old, I still do have just about all these products to sell, so please ask if you are after something in particular.

Hostess & Sale-a-bration Stamp Sets

Cause for Celebration
Friendship Blooms
Infinite Goodness
Life Life Like You Mean It
Organic Grace
Picture This (Clear Mount)
Picture This (Wood Mount)
Punches Three
Spring Solitude
Window Dressing

Retired Idea Book & Catalogue Stamp Sets

Bella’s Bloom
Card Games
Cheers & Wishes
Defining Alphabet
Enjoy Every Moment
Frames with a Flourish
Good Friend
Happy Heart (A)
Hoppy For You
Jumbo Outline Alphabet
Just Riding
Life Definitions
Only Ovals
Seeing Spots
Occasionally
Unchartered Territory
Whimsical Words
Wild About You
Wild Rose
Wow Flowers

Stampin’ Around Wheels

Watercolour Vine (jumbo)
Scatter Sunshine (jumbo)
It’s Beautiful (jumbo)
Happy Happy Birthday (jumbo)
Forever Flowers (regular)
Solitude (regular)
Watercolour Joy (regular)

Patterned Papers (All brand new and still shrink-wrapped) – $12 per pack

Bella Bleu
Raspberry Tart
Sweet Always
Tall Tales

Coloured Cardstock

Pixie Pink (24 sheets still shrink-wrapped) $7
Brilliant Blue (24 sheets still shrink-wrapped) – $7

Colour Packs

Cameo Coral. Marker, 2 full shrink-wrapped packs of cardstock, off-cuts and a watercolour crayon – $17
Glorious Green. At least 20 sheets of cardstock, marker, watercolour crayon, brand new reinker – $10
Only Orange. Used inkpad, reinker that has only had about 10 drops used, marker, watercolour crayon, at least 20 sheets of cardstock plus off-cuts – $15
Going Gray. Used inkpad, brand new reinker, marker, watercolour crayon, 5 sheets of cardstock, plus off-cuts – $12
Gable Green.  Used inkpad, reinker with only a few drops used, marker, 15 sheets of cardstock plus lots of large off-cuts – $14

Accessories

Flower Fusion Too – brand new tin still shrink-wrapped, $20

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I was lucky enough to receive the gorgeous Bella Toile background stamp as one of my awards at the last Stampin’ Up! Convention and now that the new catalogue has been released today, I can show off a card that I made a few weeks ago with this stamp.

It looks like it would take a long time to colour but it’s quite quick really.  I stamped the background using Chocolate Chip ink then just used a blender pen to drag the colour into to the swirls to shade them in.  More colour was added in various spots to add some depth.  Because the image is quite strong I decided to only add a sentiment and some embellishments.  The ‘congratulations’ sentiment is from the Perfect Punches stamp set.  Sounds like a weird name for a stamp set, but it’s called that because each of the stamps in this set coordinate perfectly with one of Stampin’ Up!’s punches.  By the way! if you’ve received your new 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalogue then you probably have noticed that some of the images of our stamps have an outline around them – that’s to identify which of the Stampin’ Up! punches coordinates perfectly with that image.  Of course there’s lots of images that work beautifully with our punches but the ones that have the outline are the ones that have a specific matching punch.

So, hope you like my card.  I’ve listed below all the products I’ve used but if you have any questions at all about this card or if you would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up! products then please feel free to email me.

Rubber Stamps:
Bella Toile background stamp
Perfect Punches (congratulations image)

Inkpads/Markers:
Chocolate Chip
Rich Razzleberry
Old Olive

Cardstock & Paper:
Whisper White
Gold Brushed
Rich Razzleberry
Old Olive Textured

Accessories:
Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon
Pearls
Linen Thread (to thread through the buttons)
Button Latte (now retired buttons)

Tools:
Paper Piercer (to pierce holes around the scalloped oval)
Scallop Oval Punch
Wide Oval Punch
Blender Pen

Adhesives:
SNAIL Adhesive
Stampin’ Dimensionals
Glue Dots

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