So, have you finished making your Christmas cards yet? Or even writing them? I’m not sure if I’ve made enough, I haven’t been terribly organised in counting them up. And I haven’t started writing them – Martin had a brilliant idea of writing one per day from the beginning of November, it was a great idea, but hasn’t happened! So, in case I’m short of cards, I decided to come up with a fast card – and when I’m looking for that, DSP is a life saver. And with the Warmth and Cheer DSP stack to hand, I decided to use that one.

I pulled out a sheet of paper and cut it down to 3 3/4″ by 5″ – this gives enough left over to line the envelope flap and with a mat (cherry cobbler) just 1/8″ inch bigger, gives a nice wide border between the mat and the card base – here it’s crumb cake. It would be easy to pull out a framelit (especially one of the stitched shapes that I’m so fond of) but I wanted to also feature the gorgeous mini pinecones. If you cut the strip at exactly one inch, it’s a tight fit into the triple banner punch, so I cut a strip of crumb cake just a 1/16 inch under one inch wide and stamped the sentiment from Star of Light in cherry cobbler. I cut a strip of cherry cobbler 1/4 inch bigger for matting and assembled that together – amazingly I remembered that I wanted to add the pine cones and left space for them. I tied them up with the cherry cobbler twine that was part of the baker’s twine trio pack and attached them with a mini glue dot that I rolled a little to stop it showing. Looks like this is a card that I’ll be hand delivering!

It would be easy to mass produce these – you could cut strips of the crumb cake and cherry cobbler at 4 1/4″ and get two across a regular sheet of card stock. Stamp and then cut them up and assemble. You could easily put together 20 banners pretty quickly after which it’s pretty fast to put together the cards.

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz