NEED CHRISTMAS CARDS IN A HURRY? GO BACK TO BASICS! A TINSEL TIME TUESDAY POST

 Hi Stampers!

Wow! It is 30 November! Thanksgiving is behind us. Hanukkah is underway. Christmas will be here in less than a month! Have you made all the cards you need for the Holidays? If so, congratulations! You did it! Great job! Maybe you have just a few more cards to make. Congratulations to you as well. You are doing great! Maybe you have yet to create a single card. I have been there more than once. Life gets busy, time gets away from you. It happens. No worries. There is still time to create some great cards to send out this year. The best advice I have for creating a lot of cards in a hurry is keep it simple and stick with the basics.  Another suggestion is to put your Designer Series Paper (DSP) to work. Today’s cards were created using the Peaceful Place DSP and very basic layouts. What if you don’t have the Peaceful Place DSP? No problem. You can use the card layouts with any DSP you have on hand. Let’s take a look at the cards.

This card layout is super easy; a card base and one layer of DSP cut at 5 1/4” x 4”. This DSP design is perfect for stamping the greeting directly onto the paper. Add some gems or pearls, and you have a great card to send Holiday greetings to friends and family.

The top two cards are very similar to the previous cards, except the layers are 5” x 3 3/4”. One layer was simply adhered to a card base. The other was matted and the piece was adhered to the cardbase with dimensionals. The third card was created by using a strip of DSP that is 5 1/2” long and in this case 2” wide. I added a matted greeting as well as a bit of silver trim and some metallic pearls.

These cards use the same layouts as the previous cards; a layer of DSP that is 5 1/4” x 4”, a layer of DSP that is 5” x 3 3/4”, and one with a strip that is 5 1/2” x 2” (this strip is matted).

Let’s look at the specific pieces of DSP and how to cut the paper to get several cards from each sheet. I apologize for the grayish hue of the photographs. I am not certain what was going on with the lighting. Anyway… cutting the three pieces of DSP the way described will make a total of 19 cards!

First up - the design that is two rows of trees. One row will be upside down. The DSP is designed like this so each half of the DSP is identical to simplify the cutting process for card making.

First cut the paper in half from left to right. You will have two pieces of paper measuring 12” x 6”. You can stack one piece on top of the other - make sure the cards are facing the same direction. The trimmer blade will easily cut through the two layers of DSP. You will be trimming 3/4” off the bottom of the paper. Move the paper to the 5 1/4” mark and cut.  Keeping the two layers together, place them in the trimmer with the 12” side at the top. Cut at 4” and 8”. You now have 6 pieces of DSP measuring 5 1/4” x 4”. Simply stamp a greeting across the bottom of the DSP, adhere the layer to a card base, add a few rhinestones, gems, sequins, whatever you have, and BOOM 6 cards completed.

 

SUPPLIES

* Card base - Old Olive

* Ink - Old Olive

* Sentiment - TIME OF GIVING stamp set

* Elegant Faceted Gems - clear

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* Card base - Smoky Slate

* Ink - Smoky Slate

* Sentiment - A WISH FOR EVERYTHING stamp set

* Metallic Pearls - silver

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* Card base - Basic Black

* Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

* Sentiment - GIVING GIFTS stamp set

* Rhinestone Basic Jewels- small

The next paper is composed of four 6” x 6” portions. I simply cut the paper in half both ways to create four 6” x 6” pieces of paper. Next I cut the larger tree from the paper. These pieces are 6” x 2”. I trimmed them to 5 1/2” x 2” by trimming a bit from the top and bottom of each piece. I trimmed the remaining four pieces to 5” x 3 3/4”. This gave me pieces to make 8 cards; four each of two designs.

SUPPLIES

* Card base - Old Olive

* Ink - Old Olive

* Sentiment - SNOWMAN SEASON stamp set

* Simply Elegant Trim - silver

* Metallic Pearls - silver

* Dimensionals for greeting

* For the greeting I used a scrap cut from the DSP (3 1/4” x 1”) and matted it on Old Olive cardstock (3 1/2” x 1 1/4”).

SUPPLIES

* Card base - Evening Evergreen

* Focal panel mat - Basic Gray cut at 5 1/8” x 3 7/8”

* Ink - Evening Evergreen

* Sentiment - HOLLY JOLLY WISHES

* Dimensionals for matted focal panel

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* Card base - Misty Moonlight

* Ink - Misty Moonlight

* Sentiment - HOLLY JOLLY WISHES

* Rhinestone Basic Jewels - small and medium

This piece of DSP is interesting. The first thing I did was cut it in half (at 6”) from left to right. I cut the “top” part of the paper down from 6” wide to 5”, then cut the piece into three pieces measuring 5” x 3 3/4”. As for the bottom section I cut it into two 6” x 6” pieces. Then I cut a 2” piece from the left side of each piece of paper, and trimmed it to 5 1/2” long. The remaining piece is 4” wide and I trimmed it to 5 1/4”.  Cutting this piece of DSP this way will make 7 cards.

SUPPLIES

* Card base- Blackberry Bliss 

* Silver Foil - Matte Finish, cut at 5” x 1” - then cut this in half at 5” x 1/2”. Adhere a piece to the back of each 5” side of the DSP.

* Ink - Blackberry Bliss

* Sentiment - TIME OF GIVING stamp set.

* The greeting is stamped on a scrap from the DSP (2 3/4” x 1”) matted on a 2 3/4” x 1 1/2” piece of Blackberry Bliss cardstock. Dimensionals are placed on the back of the greeting and it is adhered over a piece of the Silver Foil that measures 3 1/2” x 1”.

* Rhinestone Basic Jewels - 5 small

SUPPLIES

* Card base - Basic White

* Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

* Sentiment - SNOWMAN SEASON stamp set

* For the greeting - Basis White cardstock (3 1/8” x 1 1/8”) and a piece of the DSP (3 1/8” x 3/4”), the greeting is attached with dimensionals.

SUPPLIES

* Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

* Scrap of Basic Gray for greeting mat cut with Stitched Rectangles Dies (2 3/4” x 1 5/8”) and scrap of Basic White cut with another Stitched Rectangles Dies (2 3/8” x 1”)

* Elegant Trim - Silver

* Metallic Pearls - silver, 3

* Dimensionals for greeting

I used the Heart Warming Hugs DSP to create another set of cards using the same layouts used for the Peaceful Place cards. I used the Layering Circles Dies for the greetings.

SUPPLIES

* Card base - Granny Apple Green

* Ink - Real Red

* Sentiment - HOLLY JOLLY WISHES

* Real Red cardstock cut with Layering Circles Dies (2 1/8” diameter) and Basic White cardstock cut with Layering Circles Dies (1 7/8” diameter).

* Dimensionals for greeting

* Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels -3

SUPPLIES

* Card base - Real Red

* Ink - Granny Apple Green

* Sentiment - HOLLY JOLLY WISHES

* Real Red and Basic White cardstock cut with the same dies as the previous card

* Real Red Sheer Ribbon - about 7 1/2” 

* Red Rhinestones Basic Jewels - 3

* Dimensionals for greeting

SUPPLIES

* Card base - Real Red

* Basic White mat for DSP - 5 1/8” x 3 7/8”

* Ink - Real Red

* Sentiment - HOLLY JOLLY WISHES

* Real Red cardstock cut with Layering Circles Dies (2 3/8” diameter) and Basic White cut with the dies (1 7/8” diameter)

* Red Rhinestones Basic Jewels - 3

* White Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon - about 16”

* Dimensionals for greeting.

SUPPLIES

* Card base - Granny Apple Green

* Ink - Granny Apple Green

* Sentiment - HOLLY JOLLY WISHES

* Granny Apple Green cardstock cut with Layering Circles Dies (2 5/8” diameter) and Basic White cardstock cut with the Layering Circles Dies (2 3/8”)

* Dimensionals for greeting

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If you have yet to begin making your Christmas cards, or if you still need a few more, I hope these layouts help you make great cards quickly and easily. You can always skip the ribbon or other embellishments if you like. Just focus on the basic layouts and keeping it simple. I guarantee your cards will be lovely. 

That’s all for today. Thank you so much for stopping by. Until next time…

Stamp Happy!

Kim

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