Making your own Christmas cards and decorations needn't mean spending a fortune on Christmas stamps and papers. Here I have challenged myself to come up with a few ideas using just this flourish stamp. The stamp itself is from a Stampin' Up! set called Baroque Motifs, but I'm sure almost any background type stamp would work just as well. Here's how I got on!
For this card, I used the stamp to make the background. I stamped it twice onto the card and embossed with clear embossing powder. The sticker I used is from Melissa Frances and the rest was just odds and ends of ribbon, lace and a charm I had in my stash.
Here I had a go at an acetate card. The stamp was printed with white Stazon onto folded acetate. I then decorated it with rhinestones and tied a ribbon around the top and hung a pewter charm snowflake from it. A Christmas sentiment was stamped on a piece of white card and attached to the card with a white flower complete with rhinestone brad.
For this rustic, folk art type card I first stamped the image onto white card and embossed it with a red glitter embossing powder. I then used a 1 1/4" punch and a 1" punch to cut out circles from the image to make baubles. They were attached to the card on top of some patterned paper and twine was used to make the bauble loops.
This idea for tree decorations used the same idea as the bauble card above. I stamped and embossed the design in gold embossing powder onto pink cardstock and then cut out bits of the image using a scallop circle punch.
After cutting out two scallop circles, I then placed a round chocolate mint in the middle and sandwiched it, together with some ribbon for hanging and stuck the lot together with a little double sided tape. The good thing about this idea is that you can make your treats to match your Christmas decor - just choose cardstock and embossing powder to match! These look great hanging from the tree, but they would look equally stunning just piled in a decorative bowl or plate as a centrepiece.
I hope you get some inspiration from these ideas!
Lots of love Joanne xx
What wonderful results! And such a good reminder of how much we can do with what we already have.
Posted by: Kelly | October 22, 2008 at 01:21 AM
Wonderful ideas. Loved the transparent card, bauble card and hanging decoration. You have really gotten me off to a Christmassy start to what is always a load of work for me and our traditions which needless to say I love doing.
Take care and thanks again
Wild Roze
Posted by: wild roze | October 22, 2008 at 06:51 AM
you are soooclever babes:) I love the acetate card and the mint baubles
Posted by: soojay | October 22, 2008 at 07:22 AM
LOVE LOVE LOVE the bauble card!!
Posted by: Caz | October 22, 2008 at 07:43 AM
Love the acetate card Joanne
Posted by: Dawn | October 22, 2008 at 02:19 PM
Love the bauble card and the acetate one looks beautiful. Fantastic idea for tree decorations too... I think I might have to try that now I have my scallop punch!
Posted by: katie squirrel | October 22, 2008 at 10:38 PM
The lace and clear embossing on the first card are great partners, must try that.
Love that chocolate deco idea too. Definitely going to do those. Plus, the cats won't steal them if they're minty chocs. :D
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Posted by: Eleanor | October 23, 2008 at 12:45 PM