Merry Christmas

Hi friends :) For those of you celebrating Christmas, I hope you have a wonderful holiday! We had a lovely day with our family yesterday. Today Nathan & I are spending a quiet day at home; we even have snow this year.

As usual, I started working on my Christmas cards later than I planned, but I was able to make all my cards this year. I even got them mailed out by the 15th :)

I bought this as a kit last year, but didn’t have the opportunity to use it until this year. It’s a really fun kit that makes 80 card panels. The kit came with 4 stencils, 20 sheets of white cardstock, 20 sheets of kraft cardstock, and a sentiment stamp set.

I spent a weekend making the cards assembly line style – starting with the first stencil layer, I ink-blended a light green ink on all 40 pieces of cardstock, then switched to the second stencil layer and a darker green ink.

With the white cardstock, I used red ink for the berries stencil. I tried using the second (shadow) layer for the berries, but I wasn’t able to line it up properly, so I just skipped that shadow layer. On the kraft cardstock, I ink blended the berries with white ink.

After all the ink blending was done, I cut each piece of paper into quarters to get 4 card panels. I used several sentiments on 3 of the panels and adhered them to a white card base. I didn’t end up using the fourth panel, so I will be able to use those for cards next year :)

I also have 2 cards I made with a different stamp set I bought a few years ago.

For each of these cards I stamped the sweet village scene and some of the cute ice skating animals. I used markers and colored pencils to color the images. After die cutting everything, I adhered them to a red or turquoise panel and then adhered that to a white card base.