I am discovering that I love to make Christmas cards. Who knew? For some reason, I find them easier to design too. My brother suggests that possibly having some boundaries helps. I never expected to actually design the cards – I was planning to CASE all of mine. But I’ve found that it’s fun, relaxing and definitely addicting to play around with stamps and ink and card and watch something emerge.

How about another non-traditional coloured card? This, of course, has nothing to do with the fact that until my order arrives on Wednesday, I’m out of garden green and cherry cobbler. 🙂

Base: 8.5″ by 5.5″ Very Vanilla

Top layer: 3.75″ by 5″ Very vanilla

Stamp sets: Bright and Beautiful, Good Greetings

Ink: Calypso Coral

Other: Framelits stars die, stampin’ dimensionals

This is a very simple card, as usual. It’s definitely easier to cut out the star first from the top layer (as I did not on this card!) – I used the third largest die. Then positioning it over the base layer, mark the centre of the star with a pencil. Now you can see where to stamp your image on the base layer. I used the largest star stamp which meant that it was slightly larger than the opening and thus no bare card would peek through. It’s important to now add your greeting before popping the top layer up on the dimensionals. I used some of the edge pieces leftover after you’ve used the hexagon dimensionals – there’s no need to waste the edges. Just snip them to a handy size.