There’s just something about the Christmas in the Making stamp set that makes me happy. The nostalgic images just bring a smile to my face and this particular image with the cat was perfect for our No Peeking day for the 30 Day Christmas Cardmaking Challenge.
The lady looks like she is holding that present well away from the cat who is giving it ‘the look’ and wants to just get into it. Coloured with Stampin’ Blends this image comes to life. For a muted background with a subtle pattern I used the Hello, Irresistible Designer Series Paper.
The sentiment is from another retired stamp set, Oh What Fun and I just had to dig out the Cable Knit Embossing Folder as it just tied in with the whole scene.
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Welcome to Day 8 of the 30 Day Christmas Cardmaking Challenge with the theme of Christmas Letters. My initial thought was postage letters and we have a lovely stamp set in our current Mini Catalogue called the Stamped with Love set which would have been perfect. One problem, I didn’t have it. I did however, have the Christmas Tidings Embossing Folder which has sentiments in all types of fonts and that fits perfectly for letters.
I’ve used the reindeer image from the retired Seasonal Chums stamps and dies. This is a gift tag which I cut in half and coloured with Stampin’ Blends. The Misty Moonlight panel was embossed with the Christmas Tidings Folder and then I ran my Craft ink pad over the Cardstock to give it a whitewash look.
My card has been inspired by the sketch at Just Add Ink challenges #JAI677. I’ve used the Beary Christmas Designer Series Paper for the larger square and a ink blended panel for the smaller one.
The little Christmas tree is from the dies and I added a piece of Gold Foil at the back to be the twinkling lights.
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For Day 6 of the 30 Day Christmas Cardmaking Challenge I’ve used one of my all time favourite stamp sets – Christmas in the Making. This particular image came straight to my mind as soon as I saw the theme of Topping the Tree.
This lady reminds me of my mum – she used to wear lovely skirts and blouses with the collared neck. The short wavy hair is just how she wore it too. It’s lovely to bring back memories as I stamp.
Although there’s no tree on the image, I loved the unsaid anticipation which is depicted in this image of her about to decorate the tree.
I paper pieced the skirt with some Garden Walk Designer Series Paper to create a pretty floral skirt. To fulfil the ‘tree’ element of our challenge, a strip of Winter Meadow DSP was added. The beautiful softness in the Lost Lagoon trees brings out the focal image.
Although the main stamp set is retired, you could use this same layout with any of our other beautiful products and
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Today’s sketch for the #30DayChristmasCardmakingChallenge had me in a bit of a quandary. I wasn’t quite sure what 3 elements I was going to use for the entire design to be cohesive. In keeping with using retired sets for Nostalgic November I chose the Signs of Santa stamp set.
The Santa was coloured in Bubble Bath to create the vintage look I wanted on this card. You could use our St. Nicholas bundle #163859 to create a similar vintage Santa.
I added layers of stamping to create a collage style background. Our retired Layering Circles dies were used for the centre. These can be substituted with the Deckled Circle dies #162286.
I ran the Nested Essentials die twice around the sentiment to create a smaller label to fit the sentiment well and to work in with the sketch. All current products used have been listed at the bottom of this post. If you live in Australia you can shop online or contact me to place an order.
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For Day 4 of the 30 Day Christmas Cardmaking Challenge we have a colour palette inspiration using Night of Navy, Pool Party and Lemon Lolly.
I created a muted background by blending all 3 colours. Then I added the large rosette from the retired Bring on the Presents stamp set. Guess what? I hadn’t used the stamps or dies until this card. I was pretty excited about these die cut strips which form the ribbon across. So many ways these could be used, even as accent pieces. I coloured the image with Pool Party and Night of Navy Stampin’ Blends and love this 3D bow.
I used the Waves of Inspiration stamp set to create some movement in the background with Gold embossing. There was a white border around the tag which I coloured in with the Night of Navy Stampin’ Blend to create a defined border and make the sentiment stand out.
I hope you have enjoyed this project and give this colour palette a try.
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