Quick and Easy Christmas Card

Happy Thursday, Everyone! Have you all finished your Thanksgiving leftovers yet? Sadly, I didn't have any to finish (we went to hubby's parent's house) but we certainly haven't starved, by any means. ;)

Today I have a quick and easy card to make for Christmas. This would be a great one to make in batches. I started with the Harlequin Paper from Lindsay's Black and White Papers set. I printed out a small sheet (scaled to size) and then printed the stamp. You could actually print a few of each on one sheet and save time and money. I cut out the paper and attached 3 red brads in the lower right hand corner and glued it down on a black card base. I ran a strip of tombow adhesive on the edge and across the front and covered it with red ribbon. I cut out the stamp with my nesties, glued it down and done!

You can find the stamp set on Lindsay's Blog - and here's the best part - it's FREE! You can find the paper along with several others in this set in Lindsay's Mygrafico shop for only $2.99!!
Check to see what the rest of the Design Team has whipped up for you today! And I think Lindsay will have a new freebie for you, so you can start with her! Have a great day!!

Lindsay Weirich (Owner and Stamp Designer)

Cheryl Gorka DT Coordinator

Shannon Neparko

Margie Visnick

Leanne Garner

Tamara Bennett

Cindi Hooks

Micki Harper

Karin Martin

Jennifer Bliss

Rhonda Walker

Diane Bove

Laurel Seabrook

Warm Wishes! - Christmas Card Swap!

I made these cute cards for Sherri's "Make 5 Christmas Cards" each month for your stash. I made these using my new cuttlebug embossing folder and a sheet of Coredinations paper. The stamps are Holiday Clear Stamps. The simple layout and minimal embelishments made them easy to assemble. Looks like I'm off to a good start this year, Sherri! Thanks for hosting this fun (and useful) challenge.

Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Christmas Sale!

Yes, that's right by 2 stamp sets, get 1 free! Here's how it works: When you order your two stamp sets, Lindsay will email your order to you and at that time she will ask you what stamp set you want for free. Once you let her know, she will send it on to you, AND you will still get a free single stamp for every $5 you spend! Wow! What a deal! She has lots of great holiday sets, and a new calendar set that could also be used for scrapbooking! To go to Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Store, Click HERE.

This week, I chose to use tags and papers from the Winter Printable Papers, Tags and Cupcake Wrappers set. I used the blue snowflake card for my base along with the Happy Holidays tag from this set. I got this snowman tag in a swap I participated in at the Stamp Shack - it was too cute not to use on a card, and goes so well with Lindsay's paper. It is always fun to combine digi stamps with with rubber stamps. I punched the corners from an embossed scrap of coordinations paper - so easy!

Click HERE and check out what Lindsay and the other Design Team Members have created for you this week. I'm sure there's a freebie involved... Happy Holidays, and Happy Digi Stamping, Everyone!!

It's beginning to FEEL a lot like winter!

Brrr....the mornings are sure chilly around here lately...so, I decided to make a couple more Christmas cards! And, since it's Thursday, you guessed it, I'm creating cards with digital images from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff. This week I've used the penguin from the "Cool Yule" set and a "Christmas Bingo Card" for one card, and a cupcake topper from the "Christmas Cupcake Wrappers" set for the other. I also got a two new Cuttlebug Embossing Folders and thought I'd take one of them for a spin too.
The first card is a 6x6 card using the cool penguin stamp. I colored him with my bic mark its and added some stickles to the hat. I printed out the Jolly bingo card and added a snowflake brad to the center and "hung" it on the card like a calendar with a couple of brads. I punched a border for the top and bottom and used DCWV patterned paper for the background.

The second card is A-2 size, made with a dark green card stock base and a piece of red coordinations paper for the front. I ran the paper through the cuttlebug and sanded off the embossed areas. I added Distress Stickles to the snowflakes and a star brad in the word Joy. I colored the leaves with my bics and filled in the dove with more Distress Stickles.

Since these were both simple cards, I decided to make matching envelopes for both of them. They were made with templates I borrowed from Cindi (thanks, Cindi!) and more DCWV paper.


I'm sure Lindsay will have an awesome project and some freebies on her blog Thefrugalcrafter's Weblog. Be sure to check out the rest of the Design Team's Blogs to see what they have created this week, and be sure to leave them some love! It is always very much appreciated. Happy Digi Stamping Everyone!

Cool Yule! It's Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Thursday!

Yay! It's Thursday again and that means it's time for a digi stamp card or two or three or five...guess I just got a little carried away with this stamp! I just LOVE this new penguin and sentiment set that Lindsay created last week. You can buy it in her Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Store for just $1.50. I started with a sketch from Mojo Monday and then found this fun patterned paper in my DCWV Christmas paper stack, left over from last year. If you look closely, you can see the paper is covered with little ski boots, jackets, hats, poles...you get the idea. I thought it would pair up perfectly with Lindsay's "cool" penguin.

I colored the stamp with my bic mark it pens and added Stickles and Distress Stickles to the penguins' hats and hold on to your hats girls - I USED MY CRICUT to cut out the snowflakes! Why don't I use this little treasure more often? I used distress stickles on some, and "regular' stickles on others. Click the photos to make them larger, and I think (hope) you can see the difference. Regular stickles are more sparkly. I used pop dots to adhere the snowflakes for added dimension. To finish a couple of these, I added eyelets and string to the corners for a challenge at The Stamp Shack!


Since this was such a fun and easy sketch, I made some extras so I can use these for Christmas Cards. I used a studio g sentiment stamp on one of the cards, and made a square card with more DCWV patterned paper.

Wow - nothing like killin' THREE birds with one stone (no offense, Mr. Penguin)! Don't forget to check out the rest of the Design Team's Blogs to see what they have been up to this week. You can link up to them on The Frugalcrafter's Weblog. See you soon, and happy digi stamping!

Cold weather is here...

YIKES! I had to turn the heat on!!! Since it's so cold here today, (and some parts of Maine may see snow fall today) I decided to post some Christmas Cards that I have made. I was such a lazy card maker last year, and only made a couple of cards, so this year I decided to get started early. Sherri at the Stamp Shack hosted a challenge to make 5 each month. Although I have not quite kept up with that, I am about 18 cards ahead of last year! These images were all RAK'd to me last year for my birthday. I just love Fluffles!!! He's my kind of cat...The images are all colored with my watercolor pencils, some have stickles added for a little bling. The patterned papers are from a mat stack that I've had for a while too! The flowers are Primas. I have other Christmas cards that are "in the works" and will post them as I finish them. I am off to work on some ATCs for a swap I am in. But first, I think I'll make a cup of hot chocolate...

Christmas Card Challenge

Sherri at the Stamp Shack has posted a Challenge/Swap - make 5 Christmas Cards each month all year so we will be "ready" when Christmas rolls around next year. I only made about 5 cards total this year, so I thought this would be a good challenge to try. I am also planning to add 5 addresses each month to my label program, so that I'll have everyone's name and address in the computer and ready to print on a label when Christmas rolls around again. Here are this month's card creations. I stuck with the same basic layout for each of the cards and made 6 instead of 5! I used Bazzill card stock, studio g and Holiday Clear Stamps on both the fronts and on the insides. The circles were cut with my coluzzle. They were colored with Bic Mark Its and watercolor pencils, and of course, I added a few dollops of stickles!