Well have you missed me? It's been quite some time since I've done a blog post, although I always have the best of intentions. November is notoriously a crazy-busy month for me with Stampin' Up! parties, classes and clubs, and this year was no different. I also celebrated one year with my newspaper job the first week in November, and after working there for two Novembers, I have determined that November is notoriously crazy busy for the newspaper as well and I was just swamped all month. My Thanksgiving was wonderful though, stress-free, and I hope that all of you enjoyed yours as well.
I thought that since we're in the thick of things in mid-December now, I'd focus on Christmas cards, but with a twist. Everyone always asks me what my Christmas cards have looked like over the past nine years that I've been with Stampin' Up!, and I have tried to save one of each of them each year, so I thought I'd start sharing them, one at a time. I'm going to do them in no particular order.
This is a card I did a few years ago. I liked this card because it was very easy to do. That year, we'd learned something called Double Time Stamping. It's basically a very efficient way to stamp a large amount of cards.
Here's how it worked for this card: I took about 12 sheets of Whisper White card stock and spread them all over my dining room table until the table was covered. I then took my desired stamps, one at a time, and stamped the images all over every sheet of card stock. So for example, I most likely did the red circles first. I inked up my circle in Real Red Classic Ink and just stamped a ton of circles so that every sheet had red circles on it, randomly, and leaving enough space for the green ones and the silver ones. Then I switched to the smaller green circle, inked up my Glorious Green ink pad and stamped all of my green circles until every sheet of card stock had green circles randomly mixed with the red ones. Finally, using the silver Encore metallic ink pad, I inked up my open circles and added them into the design. I had no planned pattern, just random stamping.
After I was done, I collected all of the sheets and cut them to 3 3/4" x 5" (Real Red card stock was cut to 4 1/4" x 11, and Glorious Green to 4 x 5 1/4".)
After that, most of the work was just assembling. I did have to punch out all of the red and green circles for the little tags, but that I did in the car one day on the way somewhere, when I was *not* the driver. I do that often, I can work in the car without getting sick. I can remember also, taking all of the cards with me in a photo storage box, and sitting in the waiting rooms of various places my kids go, tying all of the ribbons.
Because it was so easy to make a ton of these cards, I have a bunch left over, and I like to send them out if I need an extra Christmas card.
Next time I'll post another card from a Christmas past. In the meantime, if you'd like to see last year's cards, click on this link and you'll see our card-making extravaganza. My girls are awaiting this year's extravaganza, and it's coming soon!
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