Quick Christmas Cards

Hello everyone, today sees the monthly Fifteen Minutes blog post over on the Design Team blog. This blog post features quick and easy cards created in fifteen minutes or less by members of the Design Team. The monthly feature is aimed at sharing time saving ideas suitable for beginner crafters, or for those who are looking for ideas suitable for batch making, maybe craft fairs, weddings, or something like Christmas cards. This month, we are focusing mainly on Christmas cards, as we have used stamps featured on last month's TV shows on Hochanda. I have created some quick and easy batch cards for you. The first four are all based on the same layout, using images from the Winter Edges stamp set and using sentiments from the Let's Get Festive stamp set. I took the photo below on a very sunny day, it felt very strange making Christmas cards when it was so warm!

I wanted to create some cards using left over pieces of card that would often be too small for other projects, and that is how this design came about. The look is very CAS in style, and really quick to create. The stamps I have used can be combined in lots of different combinations and colour options, creating a unique feel to the cards that I am giving, even if they are quite similar to each other.

I trimmed some offcuts of scrap card, scrapbook paper, and left over coloured pieces of paper from previous projects, all lurking in my stash box, so that they would fit to one side of a 7" x 7" card blank, leaving room for a sentiment.  The first two cards are exactly the same layout, just different colour options:

You could add white highlights to the kraft card option, giving it a Scandinavian feel. The second background is a gelli plate background, using bubble wrap to create the pattern.

My next card is stamp onto a Brusho background, with Stickles for highlights. I have used a Teal coloured Versafine ink for the stamping, which looks great against the background. I used some of the little individual images placed on an acrylic block together, to quickly build up the background. The sentiment was perfect for this card.

Finally, white embossing onto some scrapbook paper. Again, I used several of the individual snowflakes together on a block to stamp quickly with Versamark, adding the white embossing powder as I went along:

A smaller, simple card with stamping onto ribbon, and clear embossing over red stamping for the tree, you could add a few red gems in the corners if you do not like too much space on the card, or decorate the tree itself.

Do pop over to the Design Team blog to see what my Team mates have created. Thanks for stopping by, xx