Beautiful Cards Made Simple

 Hello Craftin' Friends!

I'm sitting in the sunshine in my office this morning enjoying a hot coffee while writing this. The view out my back window of snow dusted evergreens keeps distracting me from my work, but I'm definitely feeling festive!

Today's Christmas cards use my favourite stamp set from last year, which is in the Annual Catalogue this year. By combining it with the One Horse Open Sleigh DSP, an online exclusive from this season, I was able to create these beautiful cards with very little effort. You find a link to all of the supplies used in today's cards under the My Projects tab on my web page. 

The Peace on Earth Card has a Lost Lagoon card base, and the trees are coloured using the Lost Lagoon Blends. Don't you love how our Stampin' Up! products co-ordinate! I stamped the sentiment and stars on a sentiment strip of Basic White Cardstock in Lost Lagoon Ink. 

Inside the card I stamped a second sentiment and more stars with the Lost Lagoon Ink.

Here's a little tip for using the 2" strip, left over when cutting the DSP for the card front. I glued it to my envelope flap and trimmed the envelope flap to match. There's still plenty of adhesive remaining to hold the card closed. You can see precisely how I did this in the video tutorial for today's cards. 

The Merry Christmas card has a Misty Moonlight card base. In the card shown, I used the Tailored Tags Dies to layer my sentiment, just trimming off one edge to align with the left side of my card front. The images are coloured with Misty Moonlight, Real Red, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, and Petal Pink Stampin' Blends. 

Inside the card I stamped more trees in Memento Black Ink, and the sentiment in Misty Moonlight Ink. 

I used the extra DSP to decorate the envelope flap for this card as well. 

All of the materials used to create these cards are available in my online store. It was so easy to create gorgeous cards combining these products from last year and this year. If you enjoy colouring, these are definitely products you will enjoy! Please use Host Code PNPFDCQX for online orders less than $200. 

Happy Crafting!

Kelly Pulham

aka Craftin' Granny