Oct 31 2011
The 12 Days of a Clean and Simple Christmas – Stamp Simply Style – Day Eleven
Welcome to Day 11 of still more clean and simple Christmas cards. We are so glad to have you and if you are just joining us, please feel free to scroll back to catch the first 10 days!
I got in some brand NEW paper that was just SO pretty, I had to use it right away — and adding sparkly snowflakes to it was just the ticket. Take a look:
Aren’t these papers just heavenly! I thought so. They are from BoBunny’s new Snowfall Collection 6×6. Beautiful blues and browns in snowflake prints with vintage flair make this pad totally irresistible!
All Bo Bunny product in stock can be seen here.
All cards are a standard 4.25 x 5.5″ and flat for mailing — just one tiny rhinestone lump in the envelope and here’s a hint to help conceal that little lump. Cut a sheet of lighter weight cardstock and run it through your crimper if you have one, creating a corrugated sheet to place on top of your card in the envelope — does a great job of concealing that little rhinestone lump. Even placing a flat sheet of cardstock over the card helps!
The Merry Christmas sentiment is available as a single wood mount stamp called Script Merry Christmas or it is also included as one of the stamps in a clear set called Classic Christmas, both by Wordsworth. Both versions are currently at reduced pricing.
All Rubber Soul/Wordsworth stamps in stock can be seen here.
I love the rich brown on this sheet, a perfect backdrop for the sparkly snowflake.
The snowflake is cut from white cardstock with a Spellbinders Die, Snowflake Wonder, currently at reduced pricing.
Other snowflake dies available are Create-a-Flake Three and 2011 Snowflake Pendant.
Once cut I applied a Kaisercraft Rhinestone in Bronze to the center and then covered the snowflake with glue using a wide tipped glue pen, sprinkling with Ultra-fine Translucent Crystal Glitter. The simple thrill of adding glitter to a project remains the same whether you are in kindergarten or well beyond!!! LOL!!! Fun stuff!!!
There are so many pretty sheets in this pad — you’ve only seen a hint of them in these 3 cards, but you can get a good idea of the color scheme and overall design/feel. This snowflake die also came from Snowflake Wonder.
I always use VersaFine Onyx Black Ink for crisp, clear sentiments.
All items used are available at The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store, as linked above.
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Playing along today are these fabulous designers — check out their projects:
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Many thanks for joining us today.
I hope you can return tomorrow for our final day of this 12 day series.
Have a wonderful week ahead and see you real soon!
21 responses so far
Love the crisp feel and non traditional colors here…that Merry Christmas sentiment is just great too!
Wow these are simply gorgeous!!! Loving that new BoBunny Winter line! Beautiful. Love your classic design too!
Love all of your cards! I never could do that cluttered look, I’m just not good at making that look well put together in any way (and my house is proof LOL!). So it’s nice to see someone doing the simplified look with such glorious results. I really do love the colors in these, again a nice change from your traditional Christmas colors, and the single snowflake is great!
Very,very pretty! I really like the simple look,too. The papers are gorgeous! Thanks for all you do.
Beautiful cards, Sharon! I love the cool winter colors of the papers and the sparkly snowflakes!
Such lovely cards, I love the paper you used, beautiful but simple, thank you so much for sharing them.
So beautiful. Love the elegant design and snowflakes are just a fav of mine.
Such beautiful cards! I love all of them! I think I may even have a snowflake Spellbinders die! Wow this paper is also so beautiful! Thanks for all the inspirations!
I just want to say thank you for all your effort and inspiration… I was working on cards this past weekend and just ran out of ideas… After catching up on your blog from the past week I can hit the desk again. Thanks!
Beautiful! I think the brown one if my favorite, but I love them all. TFS!
Like those non-traditional colors-very pretty papers and I like the flat mailing feature. tfs
These are great. Nice and easy but pack a punch 🙂
Beautiful and will be a real joy to receive.
Jennie xx
Wonderful cards, as usually!! Thanks for the crimping tip. It should help my cards whisk through the mail more easily!!
Thanks for the crimping tip, too. I like to see your CAS cards. These are just beautiful; brings the true meaning of Christmas back to card making.
Peace, Becky Johnson
These are simply gorgeous and I bet better in person with that translucent glitter!
Can’t pick a favorite they are all fantastic!! I can see where this paper was just telling you “put a snowflake on me”!! Thanks again!! Can’t we have more than 12 days – PLEASE!! 🙂
yummy!! love your CAS designs. thanks for sharing.
Beautiful papers…and the snowflake is just wonderful! I love how gorgeous your sparkly CAS cards look! They are wonderful!
He IS Able!
Traci S.
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