Getting Festive!

Hello everyone, Leanne here with my first IACW post :)

Today we are officially over halfway through November, so it's time we started getting prepared for... (you know what word is coming!) ...Christmas!

This year I'm preparing as much as I can prior to December 1st, so that my friends and family will be able to enjoy their cards and festive makes for as long as possible - because normally they all get them when we visit on the 23rd December or thereabouts, and really they only have a few days before they're taken down again!  I've also had my customers and crop attendees asking me for easy card kits and ideas - so no pressure then...

I was inspired by a one day Christmas in July retreat run by my upline Cal - all focussing on a lovely range of Stampin' Up! paper called Jolly Holiday - rich olive, cherry, and vanilla, with kraft and a hint of soft pink - very retro, very useable.

Except whan the new catalogue came out it had been discontinued. Hmm.

Now don't get me wrong, I loved the new Christmas range, but had my heart set on an Olive, Cherry and Vanilla Christmas - to the point where I'd even selected which box of decorations we were using this year (we have a few colourways in the loft lol) Plus, in the new catty, we also have some gorgeous spotty scalloped die-cut grosgrain ribbon (what a tongue-twister after an eggnog or two!) which was begging to be a part of the festivities.

So I set about creating five simple designs:

All of them are made using 4 colours of cardstock - no patterned paper.  Then I picked up an empty basket and put in the matching inkpads, 3 matching ribbons, a stamp set, a die, 4 punches, scissors, glue, foam pads, and adhesive gems.  Everything in one place - even an A5 trimmer - meant that I could sit and punch and stamp bits with the telly on, and stick them together when ever I got a spare second (including making coffee, on the phone, at a playcentre, you name it!)

So give it a go, put a little Christmas (there's that word again!) 'kit' and get festive!

Leanne x

Comments

[Helen T]

What a greate idea to have everying you will need in a basket & to hand. I keep meaning to try and do something similar, but it never quite happens.

[Debbie]

BEautiful cards and how organised you are! Thinking I should start making some cards, thanks for the reminder :) x

[Erika]

Loving all your christmas designs stunning....which I was this organised.
Erika.

[Lynne V.]

Gorgeous cards, I love the colourway you've chosen and how nice to have a basket to dip into and make your cards. I wish I was so organised.

[Leanne]

Thank you all very much - I have never been this organised before either!
Leanne x

[jayne]

Beautiful cards and i love the kraft colour with the more traditional colours red & green. Makes them a little more modern x

[Gabrielle]

Love how you make them in front of the telly! That's just what I end up doing! great cards and a perfect reminder that we need to spring into action!

[Eleanor]

I love the simplicity of these, and yet they manage to look sophisticated, and the colour scheme is traditional with a quirk - excellent.
Elx

[laura]

These are a brilliant nudge to make some Christmas cards- better get started!