Christmas Card Club

Our Christmas Card Club Challenge Lead lies with Anne this time and her challenge is for us to make a clean and simple Christmas card.  Not always easy, but with the rising cost of postage, clean and simple Christmas cards are exactly what we all need if we are to avoid needing a second mortgage to pay for the shipping. 
We have lots of friends around the world and so I've made a card for posting abroad with no ribbons, bows or bling, but have used texture instead.  You can create detail without bulking your card by using your scoring tool.  Score on the inside of your card to make it raised (embossed) of the front or 'deboss' by scoring onto the front. 
You can also get versatility from your stamp sets with a little imagination. My snowflake is from the Mixed Bunch stamp set in the Stampin' Up! Summer Mini catalogue which is stamped in white craft ink and allowed to dry.  To speed the drying process you can heat it gently with your heat gun or leave to air dry.  The curly label punch and modern label punch are great for adding detail to a sentiment and the corner rounder punch can soften the base of the card.
Inside the sentiment is perfect for those friends in distant lands, but is from a retired Stampin' Up! set.

Don't forget to visit Anne and the other ladies in our club and if you'd like to join in please contact me and I'll point you in the right direction.

Check back in the week to see pics from my first ever Stampin' Up! incentive trip to Vienna.  Zx

Supplies

Cardstock - crumb cake, whisper white, textured cherry cobbler

ink - stampin up cherry cobbler, crumb cake, white craft

tools - stampin up simply scored scoring tool

Stampin' Up! Love Letter Designer Series Papers

 These beautiful papers along with many others will disappear from our catalogue in just a few days.  I've loved this paper pack it's lent itself to so many projects and it's worked particularly well with this 'dress' card. I've seen this idea on several blogs and have so wanted to have a go. Finally time has been available and I've done it.  I've also used the soon to retire modern label punch for the handbag.  It's a really super punch and can be used in so many ways just like all our other punches.   You'll notice that the skirt is made using the scallop circle die with the Big Shot and there's some itty bitty buttons and pearls in there too to add that little bit of luxury that every girl needs on her favourite frock.

 This is a project that we made at craft club, thanks to the lovely Dorothy who showed us how to make it. Much to the delight of everyone there I made a real mess of mine and so having learnt how to do it I remade it at home once again using these wonderful papers.  Perhaps the papers will not be appropriate, but the idea could be adapted as a gift for a male teacher which works out well for me as Charlie has just that this year and they really don't appreciate pretty gift bags filled with notelets!

If you've enjoyed using some of our designer series papers and want more remember that they will all disappear on 30 September. Jolly Holiday is already sold out, but you can check the availability of all the retiring products over at the Stampin' Up! website here and you can view the current catalogues by clicking on the side bar icons on the right of my blog.

More soon.

Zx