My Christmas Card

by Sarah on January 12, 2009

Well Christmas might be over and done with but since I still have a good number of items in my un-posted archive (and this is one of them!) I thought I would share my Christmas card design! Well one of them anyway. This is the design that I made in bulk but I had a number of other one offs that I sent out too

The design is based on this one by my all time favourite papercrafting blogger Kristina Werner.

I started out just with the combination on the far right, then I ran out of those particular papers from the Dashing range of Designer Series Paper, so I tweaked it a little and made some more (far left) in a slightly different combo. Then I cranked out a few more in the Holiday Harmony range of DSP from the recently retired Spring Mini catalogue and although I really love the brightness of the Dashing papers, I think the design works equally well with the more traditional combination of colours.

Which do you prefer…?

“Christmas Card ‘08″
Stamps: Occasional Greetings
Papers: Kraft, Naturals Ivory, Purely Pomegranate, Dashing and Holiday Harmony DSP
Ink: Real Red, Always Artichoke, Old Olive
Accessories: Wide Grosgrain Ribbon – Real Red & Old Olive, Purely Pomegranate Double Stitched Ribbon, Stampin’ Dimensionals

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1 Sarah January 12, 2009 at 1:58 pm

I love the Dashing cards, but the Holiday Harmony one stands out more for me. I wish I had bought some of that paper while it was around, I kept talking myself out of it!

2 Amanda January 12, 2009 at 2:01 pm

I love them all! Sorry!

3 Robyn January 12, 2009 at 3:27 pm

Very sweet! They look very effective but not too hard to mass produce !!

4 Chantell January 12, 2009 at 4:18 pm

I like the Dashing ones….I think it’s because I OD’d on the Holiday Hamony while it was out. And the Dashing is just so perfect for Christmas.

5 Lisa January 12, 2009 at 5:35 pm

These cards are lovely and so simple but how do you cut the triangles? I saw the video from Kristina but she has a christmas tree stamp.

6 Sarah January 12, 2009 at 5:47 pm: @Lisa – for the triangles, I first cut a strip of DSP that is the height of the trees, in this case 8cm (from memory!) Then along one edge I put pencil marks at 3cm, 6cm, 9cm etc all the way along. On the other edge, I start the pencil marks at 1.5cm, then continue at 3cm intervals after that, then use my trimmer to cut between the marks. Does that make sense…?

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7 Kelli January 12, 2009 at 6:45 pm