6 quick and easy Christmas Cards

 Hi there, 

well my "Something Saturday" this week was these 6 Quick and Easy Christmas Cards using the elegant Peaceful Place Specialty Paper, the Stars are Shining Stamp set  and the fabulous White Glittered Organdy Ribbon and I promised in the video that I would pop the measurements up on my blog, so here goes.......

 Those are the 6 cards, however as I did repeat them all I've then taken photos of each with it's "pair", so I can give you the instructions for both if they ended up different.

 

however this first card didn't end up much different!  This card I've cut the same paper and used both sides, the underneath piece is cut to 3.5" x 14.5cm (sorry about the combination of cm and inches!)

the top piece with the trees is 3" x 5" Then I've just stamped the saying across the bottom of the card.

This next card has a base of Smoky Slate, cut to 14.5cm x 10cm, then the specialty paper is cut to 6" x 9.5cm  with 1/2 " cut off the long end bringing it down to 5.5", this is then turned over to add the saying to it.  On the card in the video I show adding the ribbon under the saying on the second card, just a case of adding a line of Tear & Tape Adhesive under the saying, and concertina'ing the ribbon back and forth, then trimming off when you've got enough.

This card looks kind of dark in the photo, but there are a lot of silver stars, so it's not quite so dark!  The Smoky Slate card is cut to 10cm x 14.5cm, and the Specialty paper cut to 6" x 3", then 1cm folded over at each end, and stuck down.  I've stamped using smoky slate ink onto the background piece (stars from the same stamp set).  Then the Vellum piece is 2.5cm x 9cm, and stamped with Stazon Black. and as you need to use a couple of glue dots to hold it in place. you'll want a couple of blingy bits to cover the dots so they don't show through the vellum.

This sheet was an interesting one to use as it has a pattern that is repeated 4 times on the 12x12" sheet, so I've cut it down to the 6x6" square then in 1/2 at 3", and trimmed it down to 5.5" (1/2 " off the end).  Again it's got the Smoky Slate under it 10cm x 14.5cm.  The ribbon is attached down the side of the smoky slate piece.  The great thing with the stamp set is that as it's photopolymer, you can curve the words!

This one I originally made using the Diorama dies (one on the right), but I wasn't so keen on it and felt the Stitched Rectangle dies would give me more what I was looking for.  I do prefer it, what do you think?  This one didn't really have specific measurements for the specialty paper, however for the one on the left I cut black card to 10cm x 14.5cm and the smoky slate to 9cm x 13.5cm.

And the last ones!  So with this one I've cut the specialty paper to 3.5" x 6", then taken 1/2" off the bottom, then 1/2" off the side.  I've then taken 3/4" off one side of the base card, and attached the long strip of specialty paper on to the gap left in the card.  And the main block of specialty paper to the front of the card.  I did discover that Joy to the World fits nicely into the Double Oval Punch!

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I hope these cards inspire you to create.

God Bless love

Heather xox