Monthly Archives: November 2007

Thanksgiving weekend is a great time to get started on those Christmas designs if haven’t already done so! If you are short on crafting time, like many this holiday season, a great way to put together a pile of cards quickly is in a clean, simple style (this is Simply Saturday after all 😉 ) using coordinating papers and embellishments.

Today I have a couple quick cards to share with you in a very simple, scrappy style. Yes it is OK to switch up your styles once in a while. I always find I learn something new by looking at things in a different way. Only one of these cards has any ink…and it is a small amount at that but I had a lot of fun putting these designs together.

Christmas Joy

This quick simple design uses some textured cardstock and some fun glitter stickers to create a layered scrappy style card design. So quick and easy to put together with some coordinating papers and stickers…you could make a large variety of different designs for a quick set.

Supply List:

Cardstock: Bazzil Basics

Patterned Paper: Making Memories

Ink: White Craft – Stampin Up

Other: Glitter Stickers – making Memories, white eyelet, Crop-a-dile – We R Memory Keepers, Ribbon – Michael’s, snowflake rhinestone stickers – Me and My Big Ideas

I just love this patterned paper for this card design. This card actually was designed to coordinate with my Making a List covered notebook that was published in the Paper Crafts Holiday Cards and More issue. This is a super quick card to put together. The May Arts super thick Olive Ric Rak was one of my favorite additions. I set red Making Memories snaps in it to look like berries. The Basic Grey rub-on transfer is actually my favorite part of this design. I just love how it fits perfectly onto one of the ornaments…different products, different companies but it is almost as if they were made to go together. If you can’t see it in the pic…just click on it for a larger image. It says…Please Santa…I can explain. 🙂

Have a great weekend getting ready for the holidays. Hope you take time to enjoy some simple things and perhaps even put together some fun and simple designs.

I’m having MORE computer problems this morning. Today I’m grateful I had half of this already written, and that my son just bought a laptop this week! 🙂 Unfortunately all my files and photos aren’t accessable on the other computer. Soooo….if I don’t appear much for the next few days….that is where I am. Stuck with more computer problems. LOL I’m really having a love/hate relationship with these babies!

A little more holiday cheer….a Christmas card design to share with you today. Sorry I totally missed yesterday. There are only so many hours in the day and I tell you…I’ve been burning the candle at both ends trying to keep up. There was just so much housework to catch up on, sometimes you just have to do that and forget about stamping. 🙁 I’m sure many of you are busy cooking and cleaning as well with American Thanksgiving coming up tomorrow. I wish you all a fabulous day with lots of food, friends and family. It will be same old, same old for us as we celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving weeks ago in October. Truth be told…although I wouldn’t turn down a turkey dinner, I like celebrating in October…gives me a little more time to get ready for Christmas. I’ve been busy shopping and sorting and making lists. I like to get my shopping done before now to avoid the crowds but I’m just going to have to brave them this year I’m afraid. I AM doing really well with the Christmas cards this year as you can see. I have lots stocked up…I just have to decided which ones go where. 🙂

Holiday Cheer

This is a little design I created with the Lizzie Anne Designs Holiday Cheer stamp set. So darling…love the fun look. I decided to have a little fun with some acetate and stamped the stylized snowflake onto it with white Stazon ink. I love this opaque ink and if you haven’t tried it…the white is one of the most flexible ones to get. To add to the frosty look, I also swiped the edges of the layer with the ink pad and allowed to try.

My background design is very simple and uses a 5.25″ square card base in Real Red cardstock. The patterned paper layer is a gorgeous Olive color. It is more of that awesome Webster’s Pages designer paper by Terri Conrad. After adhering my layers, I stitched around the design with my sewing machine to frame it and attach my transparency layer.

To create a fun hanging ornament, I stamped my Happy Holidays circle onto whisper whit cardstock and punched it out with a Marvy Maga circle punch. After sponging the edges, I adhered it to a scalloped circle punched with my Giga Circle punch, also by Marvy. The hip tree is stamped with Always Artichoke and cut out, matted and adhere to the center of the ornament. A little Making Memories gemstone brad adds some glitz and a little scrap of May Arts ribbon adhered with a glue dot add the tie for the ornament.

Quick Tip: When using Marvy Punches, they make it easy to layer …the Giga punch will perfectly mat a Mega size punch and so on.

Webster’s Pages, May Arts ribbon and stamps available from Jacksonbelle Embellishments.

Wishing you a fabulous day! Enjoy Thanksgiving and find a little holiday cheer in getting ready for Christmas. 🙂