Oct 17 2011
The 12 Days of a Clean and Simple Christmas – Stamp Simply Style
Hi everyone! Welcome to Day 1 of The 12 Days of a Clean and Simple Christmas – Stamp Simply Style. This ongoing series will feature cards that are CAS (clean and simple), making it quick and easy to recreate them or even mass produce them for the Christmas season. Likewise, our posts will be short and sweet as well — nothing to bore you or take up a lot of time — just sharing some ideas for CAS Christmas creations! Hope you’ll join us for this 12 days series.
Here’s my easy, peasy Christmas card creations for today.
All cards are standard A2 sized — 4.25 x 5.5″.
All cards use the same supplies — the NEW Christmas Collection by Melissa Frances — DECK THE HALLS.
All Melissa Frances products in stock can be seen here. She has such a beautiful and delicate vintage style
1/4″ 100% Silk in Burgundy was used for all bows — made on the Bow Easy. The Olive silk also coordinates well with this paper pad.
Using the coordinating tags as the focal image always makes for a quick and easy card.
Check out the DARLING banners to coordinate with this set — SO cute, trendy and vintage!
Again, the Deck the Halls collection can be seen here.
The next 2 cards are fancied up JUST a bit, but are still super easy and quick to make . I just added the lace by Melissa Frances, secured on with Scor Tape.
Adding just one single Rhinestone gives it just a touch of glitz, perfect for a CAS creation. Lippy Red is a good color to coordinate with burgundy shades.
As to the card insides, these are blank for now, but that was not my intent. We have been having really high winds for several days, and last night as I was trying to finish up my cards, get the photos done, edited and the post written, the power started flickering on and off — my fear was of a power outage making me unable to complete my work on this post, so I forgot about the insides and just moved on to my photos, trying to beat mother nature in the event there was an outage.
The insides were to have been stamped with some of the sentiments from Christmas Nested Sentiments by JustRite. This was my go-to set of Christmas sentiments last year and I’m so sad to see it has been retired by JustRite. I still love it and find many applications for it both on card fronts and card insides. When my product in stock is depleted, it’s gone as I can’t get any more — so sorry. It requres the Clear Rectangle Stampers for use, being a part of JustRite’s original line of ribbed interlocking products.
And that’s it for today.
All items are available at The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store, as linked above.
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Editing to answer your questions:
Yes, I have 2 other Christmas themed paper lines in stock with tags to match:
Visions of Christmas by K & Company
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You can see more CAS Christmas creations today at the blogs of these designers:
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Thank you so much for coming! MUCH appreciated by us all.
We’ll be back tomorrow morning, same time, same place! Hope to see you then.
20 responses so far
So pretty, loving the new Melissa Frances paper!
I don’t know what I’d like more. Playing with the beautiful papers and creating these gorgeous cards or receiving a mailbox full of them for the holidays!
So excited for this week of Christmas card ideas!!!
These cards are so gorgeous, Sharon! I love the Melissa Frances papers!
These are gorgeous, the papers are beautiful! I’m so excited to see more CAS ideas!
Thank you for the inspiring eye candy!
Thank you for sharing these lovely ideas. I do not have any of the papers, but will use the ideas and substitute. Many thanks for the inspiration and warm wishes from South Africa
These are perfect! Love the little touches of bling and ribbon/lace on each. Hugs!
Just love your work Sharon it amazing what you come up with, I love them both.
Oh I love these. Especially the old fashioned Santa one. Never thought to put tags like these for Christmas. Next year for sure I will try this. Finished all my cards for this year already. TY for sharing your wonderful talent with us. ekc
Beautiful cards, love them all, thank you so much for sharing them.
Love the cards. Such beautiful papers.
Hi Sharon~
These are beautiful cards! I love the vertical card with the ivory lace as the piping. That paper is so precious. I love the idea of adding a tag to the card front. These are all so beautiful. Thank you for sharing them…and for hosting these 12 days of CAS cards!
He IS Able!
Traci Starkweather
Beautiful cards Sharon! I love CAS cards and look forward to seeing more!
Beautiful, beautiful!!
What yummy paper etc. Love & want all of it! What is the thin white strip on the first card? Ribbon, strip of paper, something else? I just can’t figure it out.
Wow! I’m so impressed and enjoyed your great creations! thanks.
I love this website is great aswell.
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