Christmas Stamp N Stack

I love a good Stamp 'n' stack class because it is quite easy for me to prepare the cards as the formula is very similar for each card... Its just the layout and the stamping that changes it up..

Take a close look at these Night of navy based cards.. they all have the same size rectangular piece on them and they all have strips of DSP and or card stock in the formula... to help create individuality in each of your cards you can layer the pieces different ways... Then to further their individuality and appeal you can use border punches, distressing techniques and tearing to change it up.

As you can see all these Sahara Sand based Card stock cards all have the DSP as the background layer with Square accents and embellishments with a strip of card stock as their basic lay out...

It can be that easy to make cards that are totally different but save time and energy while you mass produce them... Sometimes the cutting of the materials is what takes most of the time... When you get into the swing of things it can go quite fast. After a little while spent designing these cards I was able to prepare and cut this class for 8 ladies in about 1 & 1/2 hours... Now if I had a guilotene that cut more than one peice of card stock at once I could do it in a matter of minutes!!! Oh the bliss!!!! One day ... yes one day I will own or gain access to one of these fantastic machines!!!!

On the strip on the bottom right Reindeer card I wanted some background stamping and because I try to keep a Stamp 'n' Stack simple and only use one or 2 stamp sets I thought the Reindeer antlers would be a great background stamp for a small strip... Just stamp it over and over again and whalah you have a lovely little background stamp...

I hope this gives you some ideas for your own Christmas Cards...

PS... I love the Elegant Soirée DSP.. just in case you couldn't tell.... heheheh

Circles Die Cut - Stencil

Did you know that you could use the left overs of your die cut to created a stencil????
Me either until we were shown this really great idea at Brisbane Regional Training....
I love that Stampin' UP! attracts and is so full of talented people with FANTASTIC ideas!!! As long as we have stamps, ink pads and paper or card stock I believe the creativity will never run dry!!!!

At our September PaperANGELS Meeting this was our 2nd project for the night.. We replicated the top one from Regionals... Using the negative as a template you can sponge your desired ink colours on to your card stock... (I suggest that you use some dotto to stop your stencil from slipping around...) then while you still have the stencil over you stamp your images in black StayzOn... What an AWESOME effect this creates.. very stylish...
At one of our Bayside craft days we decided to change the colours up a bit and we created the bottom one with more subtle colours....

Paper Lantern Tea light Cover

At our September PaperANGELS meeting we made a lovely Paper lantern Tea light cover... We used the Top Note Die cut to create the windows.... and the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder on some thick card stock velum to created the detail in the windows.. It was a really great idea... and rather inexpensive to create for a themed party or something... Liz gave us the basics and then we were challenged to do something more with it...

While I was at Liz's helping prepare for the meeting I wanted to make a smaller one so this is what I came up with...
It's a sweet little red white and black one.. with a bit of Crumb cake too... hehehe
I stamped with opaque versa mark on the windows and made the window shapes with the curly label punch.. Punching out just over one and a half of the label punches. It is a beautiful idea and could really light up your table decorations for a special occasion...

Now of course you would not put an open flame in them..Being that they are made from card stock and all.... You would use a battery operated tea light... I believe you can pick them up at most Big W stores....

Happy creating!!!