Just for a Change

In addition to varying your card design, it's fun to make a card of a different size, just to mix things up and make things interesting. The CTMH adhesive border strips take ink wonderfully, making it easy to have them coordinate with your card elements.

Natalie

Card Recipe

Stamps: doily (Magenta), bird (Technique Tuesday), siwrl (Autumn Leaves)

Papers: cardstocks (Bazzill)

Inks: Colorbox Lettuce & Dark Brown

Accessories: adhesive border strip (CTMH)

Non-Traditional Christmas

Using non-traditional Christmas colours to make a Christmas card is always a nice surprise for the recipient. A little bit of glitter always brings snowflakes to life.

Natalie

Card Recipe

Stamps: doily (Magenta), snowman (Inkadinkado), sentiment (Gina K)

Papers: white cardstock (Georgia Pacific), blue cardstock (Bazzill Stonewash)

Ink: Colorbox Smoke Blue

Accessories: Spellbinder Squares & Labels 16, PSX Diamond Sparkles Glitter Glue

Ribbons in the Wind

Attaching the ribbon to the metal embellishment creates some movement on this card front. Once again, the red ink colour was chosen to match the cardstock.

Natalie

Card Recipe

Stamps: image (Stampin' Up), sentiment (PTI)

Papers: Bazzill cardstocks

Ink: Distress Aged Mahogany

Accessories: ribbon (Fabricland), metal embellishment (WeR)

A Versatile Image

When I saw someone else's version of this card, I thought it was a wonderful idea to incorporate a doily image into a Christmas card. After all, they are somewhat similar in design to snowflakes. I think the three different images work well together. I first chose my ink colour and then found matching cardstock.

Natalie

Card Recipe

Stamps: doily (Magenta), small snowflakes?

Papers: white cardstock (Georgia Pacific), silver cardstock (stash), blue cardstock (Bazzill)

Inks: PSX Wedgewood, Encore Metallic Silver, Versafine Black

Accessories: button (Jolee's Boutique), rhinestones (Kaiser), ribbon (Fabricland)

Enhance What You've Got

Just to add a little more glamour to this stamped image, I added rhinestones in the same place in the doily pattern. Offsetting the stamped image to the left required stamping the sentiment to the bottom right. Rounding the bottom right corner of the card also added balance. The ink colour was based on the colour of the ribbon I had on hand.

Natalie

Card Recipe

Stamps: image (Magenta), sentiment (PTI)

Paper: Georgia Pacific white cardstock

Ink: Colorbox Eggplant

Accessories: ribbon (Fabricland), rhinestones (Kaiser), corner rounding scissors?

Cornered

Here I've used a doily on a card to create a fancy corner. I merely folded the paper doily around the corner of the stamped image.

Natalie

Card Recipe

Stamps: image (Magenta), sentiment (Gina K)

Papers: green & blue cardstocks (Bazzill), white cardstock (Georgia Pacific)

Inks: Versafine Black, Distress Peeled Paint & Broken China

Accessories: Martha Border Punch, velvet ribbon (stash), paper doily (stash), fabric brad (Kaiser)

Collage

A collage background stamp is a great start to create this type of card front, especially if you find this style of card design challenging, as I do. As done previously, all of the images were stamped on the card front and left to dry before the doily image was stamped and heat embossed. Colouring with Distress Inks followed. I framed the Happy Birthday sentiment to make sure that it did not get lost in the card layout.

Natalie

Card Recipe

Stamps: background (Prima), doily (Hero Arts), butterfly (CTMH), fern (Rubber Stampede), sentiment & frame (Gina K)

Papers: white cardstock (Georgia Pacific), green cardstock (Bazzill)

Inks: Distress Shabby Shutters, Tumbled Glass, Vintage Photo

Accessories: punch (Nankong), white embossing powder (stash)