2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Washi Tape

Washi tape can be used in place of a DSP strip or Ribbon strip. It can be gathered, laid straight, repositioned if need be, cut, torn and used on all sorts of projects.  This post showcases a very simple layout for making mass Christmas cards...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Washi Tape Christmas Cards

Steps
Choose a background cardstock in a coordinating colour to the Washi Tape you wish to use.
The Washi Tape is placed in uneven strips on the Whisper White cardstock, which is mounted onto the background cardstock with sticky strip.
Stamp greeting on Whisper White in a coordinating ink colour and mount this onto coordinating cardstock which has been punched out using decorative label punch.
Mount this over the washi tape strips with Dimensionals...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Washi Tape Christmas Cards

 Up close...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Washi Tape Christmas Cards

Today showcases works from a workshop held in 2013 where I held a couple of workshops to make a very simple card.  These are the ladies works for Christmas...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Washi Tape Christmas Cards

Daffodil Delight and Old Olive with that gorgeous Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding by Stampin' Up!

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Washi Tape Christmas Cards

Daffodil Delight...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Washi Tape Christmas Cards

Old Olive and Cherry Cobbler - again love the Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding by Stampin" Up!

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Washi Tape Christmas Cards

And then to use the same layout for a Mother's card - so easy and yet so beautiful

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Washi Tape Mother Card

Washi Tape is certainly a delight to use, so be sure to use it when you want to add a little something else to your projects.  Thanks for stopping by!

Yours in paper craft

2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

Festival of Trees is presented in the same layout as the Christmas Santa Owl but what a difference a forest of trees makes in contrast to Santa!  These are some of the beautiful creations from my Christmas Card Class....

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

A different layout for the greeting utilising Stampin' Up! oval and Scallop oval punches...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

Place the scallop circle differently and you have a very effective shadow...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

The trees were layered and one highlighted with Dimensionals and Gold Glitz (glitter glue)


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

and then we decided to dress it up with a line of gold twine...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

My very simple creation :-)...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

The very best thing about this stamp set is that it has a coordinating punch - gotta LOVE that!
and this is just purrrfect for creating Christmas cards.

Yours in paper craft

2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Owl Builder Punch

This is a layout I've used for the last couple of year's but it is timeless, crisp, clean and so, so easy.  Stampin' Up! Owl Builder Punch was used to create this cute little Santa Owl, and the Bird builder punch (wing) employed for the hat, the branch for the belt, then along with the bloom from the itty bitty punches; the ruffle and pom pom were created...he is tooo cute..

A Crafty Cat: Stamin' Up! Santa Owl

The tag punch was used for the presents, a little twine around the sponged sake - just way too cute!

A Crafty Cat: Stamin' Up! Santa Owl

 As you know I love to showcase my customers creations and these are just some of them...

A Crafty Cat: Stamin' Up! Santa Owl

 Love the addition of the stars and the red shadow behind the greeting - going to have to case that!

A Crafty Cat: Stamin' Up! Santa Owl

The owl builder punch is truly one of the most versatile punches you will ever use and coupled with the bird punch, they are a great combination.  Enjoy and I hope you have your Christmas cards under way...

Love,

2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Partridge and Pears

and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.... now Stampin' Up! have the stamp set to go with it "Partridge and Pears" WM133854/CM133857.  If you love to colour in then you will surely love this one...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! "Partridge and Pears" coloured with Blendabilities

For these cards I simply stamped the image in Momento, Black Tuxedo Black 132708, on Whisper White card stock and coloured them in with Stampin' Up! Blendabilities in Old Olive and Daffodil Delight, with a highlight of darker colour where I wanted the appearance of a shadow.  I cut these down with the trimmer and mounted them onto DSP which I then mounted onto the contrasting backing card.  I then added the greeting and embellishments.

From a background of DSP to that of white, Whisper White and just let the stamp speak for itself...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! "Partridge and Pears" coloured with Blendabilities

Different greeting, different pear placement, but same layout...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! "Partridge and Pears" coloured with Blendabilities

For these cards I simply stamped the image in Momento, Black Tuxedo Black 132708, and coloured it with Stampin' Up! Blendabilities in Old Olive and Daffodil Delight, with a highlight of darker colour where I wanted the appearance of a shadow.  I then cut the tree out and mounted it onto the pre embossed (Delicate Designs 127023) pre stamped Whisper White card.  The tree's berries/young pear fruits were highlighted with Gold Glitz 133755.

So easy and just a little different for a Christmas card I think.  I have really enjoyed making these.

Yours in paper craft,

2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Visions of Santa

Want a little Christmas fun, then Stampin' Up! have the stamp set for you - Visions of Santa 135167 and these are just some of the layouts and colour combinations we created with this wonderfully fun stamp set...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Visions of Santa

 I found it fun to colour the images with the blendabilities and add a little coordinating washi tape...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Visions of Santa

 Cards were created on Daffodil Delight  with a fine Real Red boarder...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Visions of Santa

 Cards were created on Real Red and looked great without a boarder...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Visions of Santa

 Cards were created on Olive Green  with a fine Real Red boarder...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Visions of Santa

  Cards were created on Smokey Slate with a Olive Green  boarder...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Visions of Santa

  Cards were created on Coastal Cabana again without boarder...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Visions of Santa

  This card is white on white with a fine Cherry Cobbler  boarder...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Visions of Santa

I had so much fun playing with this set, thanks to a dear customer for allowing me to use it.  I look forward to your company at tomorrow's post.

Have a purrrfectly crafty good day,
Love