Christmas Cards 2010

I thought I would do a post of my Christmas cards for this year. I took some photos of me making a few of them. Like I said before this years cards are really simple. That way I can finish them quickly and without having to buy anything extra :) While growing up my family liked to buy cards that had the 3 wise men on them. Every year we got a different design, but they all had the 3 wise men. I guess I grew fond of it. This year I wanted to do something with the 3 wise men. I don't plan on carrying on the tradition to do it every year, but it fit with the design I wanted to do this year :)




Proof that you can use a pink-blue-green plaid pattern on a christmas card! I forgot to take a photo of them too, but I have a dark red envelopes for all of the cards to be mailed in. So this cards is a standard A2 size. The design in on the front measures about 4in x 2in.




The inside stamped message. Then we'll add personal messages to each one before mailing them out :)




I started out with my stamp, ink, stamp placement holder, and a nice cream card stock.




This is how the stamp placement holder thing works. Its so that you can make sure to stamp straight each time :)




And you can make sure you get it in the corner correctly! This way you can use up as much of the paper as possible.




Then I use my paper cutter to trim it down.




Next I cut out a piece of patterned paper just a little bit larger than the stamped image piece.




Then I glued the patterned paper to the center of my card.




Then I glued down the stamped image piece. You usually don't want to rub your hands over the ink so I always place a scrap piece of paper down and rub my hand over that to make sure that the two pieces of paper are properly adhered to the card.




And there you go, a simple and cheap Christmas card! Exactly what I wanted this year :D This design would work wonderfully with all kinds of papers and stamps! So you should try to make your own Christmas cards this year!!