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The Christmas blues…

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

And an untraditional blue at that!   Baja Breeze and the Designer Series Paper "Manchester" grace the front of this holiday card made also with the "Keep Christmas" set.

This was also done with the 2/3 / 1/3 formula with the Designer Series papers and the ‘chair rail’ type division of top and bottom is with a sliver of a fine pinstripe design from the same papers.

Accessories:
5 ½ x 8 ½ Baja Breeze Cardstock
2 ½ x 4 Baja Breeze cardstock
2 x 3 ½ Sahara Sand cardstock
1 ¾ x 1 ¾ Vanilla cardstock
Designer Series paper Manchester
  4×3 in. sand color plaid
  4×2 in. tri-color stripe
3/8 x 4 in. Baja Blue fine stripe
Black StazOn
Earth Elements Watercolor Crayons, Aquapainter
Glue Dots, Taupe grosgrain ribbon

Keep Christmas Simple Holiday Card

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

I just love the story ‘A Christmas Carol’ so this purchase was a no-brainer!  I own at least 4 versions of this story (the musical one, a serious one with Geo. C Scott, as well as Muppet Christmas Carol and Scrooged).  I know, I’m a strange person, but I saw a version I don’t know at Borders and had to force myself not to buy it!

Keep Christmas Holiday Card

This is the fastest, easiest formula for quick card using our Designer Series paper in a  2/3 and 1/3 type of layout (the top stripe is 2" x 4" and the bottom 3" x 4" (see "pattern" left)

I use this a LOT and you get quite a few cards from a 12×12 piece of Designer Series paper.  This paper used ‘Parisian’ is so beautiful and immediately the tone on tone burgundy pattern (on the bottom) it looked like Christmas to me!

Simple ‘recipe’:

Set: Keep Christmas, Access; Bravo Burgundy cardstock, Parisian Designer Series Paper, Burgundy wide grosgrain ribbon, Black StazOn, Watercolor crayons (Earth Elements plus Bravo Burgundy crayon from Rich Regals)

Okay, so my class this evening features quick Christmas card layouts using all types of our Holiday (and non-Holiday) DSP.

Don’t miss my Sat., Dec. 6 all-day stamping Extravaganza… check out my calendar for more information.