My Christmas Cards

I have been so busy making  my Christmas cards.  I made 200  of them I started having flash backs to making 400 Wedding announcements. I enjoyed making them I hope that the receivers love them too.  I bought the Ruby Red and Certainly Celery Paper to use a few years a go and then was side tracked by Wedding announcements...that actually happened the next year also.
Last year I had a genius idea to make a DVD.  This year I decided I had the time and the supplies to make the Cards so finally they happened.  I used Christmas Money to buy this cute Stamp Set from SU called, "Beautiful Season" I stamped  in Early Espresso.
I used the  Bright and beautiful Sentiment on th einside of the card, but after getting them all assembeled I felt I needed a sentiment on the outside too so I used this one from the SU "Best Yet" set. I used SU  large oval and punched the sentiment out, and used my Martha Stewart punch to make the green boughs and attached them behind.  I loved using the Gem stone Ribbon I got a Micheal's for the  Holly Berries...they are Recollections 1 Yard  of Ribbon, bling on a roll. They are staggered 2 deep so it was easy to cut them in triangles and attach them.  I used about 1 and 1/2 yards to make 200 cards so I still have some to play with on some other odds and ends.

For the image I used my Water Color Wonder Crayons and painted using Lucky Limeade and Ruby Red. I used Lime aid because it is very close to Certainly Celery and paints just a bit darker.
I matted with Certainly Celery, and punched the corners using EK double corner punch. I embossed the Ruby Red using Cuttle Bug snowflake form a set of Christmas Cuttlebug folders. and then mounted the image on top with glue dots.  The card base is 4 1/4' x 4 1/4".  I used the ribbon stash making these cards.  2 different Chocolate Organza, some of the green Satin form the wedding some  Chocolate and white gingham , and so red and green gingham.  I think I used up 6 different  used spools and they all look great...but being the only difference I choose the 1/2" dark brown Organza bought on a trip out west at a Roberts probably over 5 years ago. I used scraps for all the branch punches and sentiments...and a lot of the image matting.  I like that I am still using the stash.  There is an old saying I love, " use it up, ware it out, make it do, or do with out." I thin k sometimes we get to caught up in having all the newest colors and items and I am glad I was able to use all my old out of stock colored cardstock and ribbon scraps.

...Until Later...Happy Stamping!