What a fun challenge this month! Most of my cards are pretty speedy anyway, so I knew this would be fun, except for not having any Christmas stamps. Time to place an order! I went with two very versatile sets that gave me the most bang for my buck: Vintage Santa and Flourish Trees of Hope. I just love all the trees and prases in Trees of Hope. I figure I will get more use of this set than just for Christmas. With Vintage Santa, all the Christmas greetings drew me to the set along with the snow flakes. I can leave them in a trio or cut them to have individual flakes. Finally, this is just one, cool Santa! For the blog hope, I've come up with five new projects, some cards and a gift tag.
VIntage Santa, Inspiration Avenue
First up, a very simple Christmas card. Some green Bazzill, a bit of Reece SWIC paper and a couple stamps. I added a hint of glitter to the tree with my stardust gelly.
Santa is pretty good on his own, so again a simply stamped card with a hint of color from Reece, a touch of sparkle to the snow flakes. I love doing cards that are not your typical folded half sheet.
I found myself using too much green, so the snow flakes drew me to blue. I really had a lot of fun mixing these two sets.
A fun gift card. I was inspired by a card from Laurie over at Soapbox Creations. I really liked the punched out santa here. 
Finally, this card was a bit more complicated, but with a stamp positioner went very quickly. I used one of the trees to create my background pattern. (One of my first thoughts in seeing this set.) I cut out my kraft square, then took a pencil to quarter it off and find the center so I could position my stamp easier.
Please enjoy these other blogs for many more ideas and lots of great inspiration!
Laurie W
Love your examples! The Trees of Hope set is wonderful! I really like what you did with it!
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice selection you posted - love them all and love the designs with the Trees of Hope - I keep looking at that set for christmas and now you have given me some inspiration. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHI Jamie! Girl these are awesome. Love those images and I LOVE what you did with Flourish Trees of Hope. I have this set and when I look at the images, I am so not inspired. So thanks for giving me a reason to use them chick!
ReplyDeleteWow these are great! I was a little intiminated by the snowman set when TAC introduced it but I love how you used it here! I love it really doesn't need a lot of coloring. Your cards using Trees of Hope are awesome! Very creative!
ReplyDeleteVintage Santa is one of my favorites and I love what you have done with him here but my favorite card has to be the first one. Love the combination of colors. TFS
ReplyDeleteAll of these are awesome! I really all the different colors you used!
ReplyDeleteWhat a bunch of cute cards. That little Santa tag is my fav though
ReplyDeleteJamie, these are incredible! Great job!
ReplyDeleteWOW! Great projects using the trees!
ReplyDeleteJamie great card ideas! I really love the ones with the trees of Hope... the last one especially that looks like a medallion! Very cool effect!
ReplyDeleteWow you were busy! I love all of your samples!
ReplyDeleteLove your creativity. Awesome! I really like the last card (Believe).
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