Oct 19 2011
The 12 Days of a Clean and Simple Christmas – Stamp Simply Style – Day Three
Welcome to Day 3 of The 12 Days of a Clean and Simple Christmas – Stamp Simply Style. I have a very easy and quick trio of cards today, but first we have the winner from last Saturday’s Ribbon Inspiration/Stamp Simply Style.
The winner was selected from Deb’s Blog and she won a beautiful selection of Silk Ribbon:
Congrats go out to Michelle B from Davenport, Florida. Michelle, please email me at [email protected] with your mailing address to claim your prize package of 36 yards of luxurious silk ribbon!
Thanks to all who played along and please consider joining us each Saturday as we share Ribbon Inspiration/Stamp Simly Style.
Now on to my trio of cards for today:
This trio of cards uses a pad I’m just really loving this holiday season – Lost & Found Christmas 6×6 by My Mind’s Eye.
All coordinates to this pad in stock can be seen here. I’d like to point out that the stamp set to coordinate with this paper pad could be used in the same fashion as today’s cards, the image would just be different than what I’m showing.
Here’s a closer view of just one of the cards and I’ll only show one since they are all the same. The card is standard A2 size – 5.5 x 4.25″. On this particular card I thought it was kind of neat how well that strip of patterned paper coordinates with this stamp. The stamp used is a wood mount by Rubber Soul/Wordsworth, called Swirly Christmas Tree.
All of the stamps in stock by Rubber Soul/Wordsworth can be seen here.
And for no particular reason, I’ll just tell you — it is this type of card that made me fall in love with the craft of rubber stamping many years ago. A simple embossed image — man, I was WOW’d when I learned how to emboss and thought it was just the coolest thing EVER! LOL — I still love the look of a heat embossed image and I do it WAY too seldom — I think you’ll be seeing more heat embossed images here this holiday season!
What a gorgeous little tree! To heat emboss an image you need a heat gun, Versa Mark and Embossing Powder. I still get a kick out of watching my stamped image come to life as I heat it up!
One more little tidbit — you also need an Embossing Buddy or some comparable anti-static product. Well, my Embossing Buddy has been *temporarily misplaced* for weeks in my stamping mess. I made my own last night and was VERY pleased with the results. I put about 1/4 cup of cornstarch in a white cotton sock and tied it off with a heavy rubber band. WORKED GREAT! Problem solved!!!
I used Mirror Cardstock in gold to mat my layers. Another look I LOVE, especially at Christmas. It gives you a lot of POP for very little effort. The other cardstock used is SU Very Vanilla. My little piping strip is also out of the Mirror Cardstock.
Here’s a little tip — to make a rather simple card without a lot of other interest come to life, just pop up the focal image. Elevating the focal image automatically gives it some importance, making your card seem extra special — I think so anyway. I like to use the 3D Foam Squares. I prefer this brand because the backs peel off easier than some other brands I’ve tried.
And there you have it — a really quick trio to make!
I made these last night very late and now in looking at the photos, I can see that I forgot one thing I would normally do — can anyone guess? LOL! If I had been totally awake when I made these, I would have put a tiny little Lippy Red Rhinestone on the star at the tree top, and I still will! Imagine it’s there — LOL!
All items used are available at The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store, as linked above.
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Another fabulous CAS creation can be seen at Deb’s Blog — she used paper that is ON SALE and one of my FAV new loves — the Webster’s Pages Silhouettes — love what she did!
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I again thank you from the bottom of my heart for stopping in today! It is SO much appreciated.
We’ll be back tomorrow — hope you can come again.
Have a wonderful day!
24 responses so far
These are gorgeous!! Did heat embossing make us all fall in love with stamping so many years ago??? Have A Great Day!
Gorgeous gorgeous cards! I love these tones of gold!
Simple, yet elegant in the extreme!
Love these simple and elegant! Heat embossing lured a lot into this hobby (obssession). Lol
Love your card set, Sharon! The papers are gorgeous and the gold mirror paper and embossing really give an elegant look!
The mirrored cardstock adds a classy touch-love them all and the embossing!
What beautiful and elegant cards. Love them. Thanks for the embossing buddy “trick”. I have to remember that one.
I’ve got that adorable stamp and love how you have embossed it and paired it with the DPs. Lovely trio of cards 🙂
Gorgeous cards! So very elegant!
These are absolutely wonderful! Elegant and sophisticated. Just lovely. The best CAS I’ve seen in quite a while.
Love the gold trees, thank you for sharing them.
Wow, really gorgeous trio of cards! I love embossing and find that I really tend to use it during the holidays!
Beautiful use of embossing and mirrored cardstock.
Sharon, these are BEAUTIFUL! What size is the focal image and how did you cut/emboss it?
Really lovely! And, yes, I can see the rhinestone!
Beautiful papers, love these simple yet elegant cards!
What a stunning color combination!
Congratulations to Michelle B. and we live near-by each other!
Hi Sharon~
What a beautiful CAS card. I love that stamped image…and it is so beautiful embossed in the gold to match the gold “mirror paper” you used so wonderfully.
I love the brown backgrounds…it really is special with the gold. I really like this look a lot…and you just showed me how to handle the brown papers that came with the set! Thank you so much!
I am really enjoying these 12 Days of CAS Christmas Cards!
He IS Able!
Traci Starkweather
Beautiful CAS cards Sharon – I love them! The heat embossing is what started me in cardmaking. Thought it was the most awesome thing I had ever seen!
Love, love, love your simple and beautful Christmas card!!!!
Beautiful set of cards! I also adore embossing and am still amazed watching powder heat up LOL 🙂 Thanks for the tip on the homemade anti-static bag!
I love this website is great aswell.
Thanks for the detailed description on these cards. I have been dabbling in paper crafting for a while but never really got into stamping much until now. Looking for a way to condition my stamps brought me here. So great that you figured out a way to make an anti-static bag, I’m going to try that too! And I completely agree on the heat embossing, once I found out you could do that I HAD TO have more stamps!
You are really getting me in the Christmas spirit! These cards are beautiful and I just happen to have that stamp!