Thursday, December 22, 2016

Quick Christmas Cards


I came up with this quick and easy design to use up some gold mirror doilies I've had in my stash for a while. I borrowed the Holly Jolly stamp from a friend, and embossed it with gold on red cardstock; using a matching punch to cut the image. I added a white banner that was embossed with a Snow Globe ef from Sizzix, and added a sparkly piece of gold sticky ribbon that was cut into a banner and placed beneath the sentiment. The card base was embossed with a  Cuttlebug Holly Branch ef.

I'm sharing this with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge which is "Make it Sparkle."

Here are a couple more cards I made with this design...


Green...


and Vanilla.


Thanks for stopping by and make it a great Thursday!

Carol

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very nice cards. I love them all but the vanilla seems to show the background embossing the best. Hope you have a nice day today.

*Vicki* said...

Wow Carol, these are ALL really gorgeous designs!! I just love the texture and the pieces really work well with this layout too!! I love the gold embossing and the gold doily really makes these stand out beautifully!! HUGS

cotnob said...

Fabulous cards Carol, I love the rich red one.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Pauline
x

Alice (scrAPpamondo) said...

Gorgous designs on your cards, the textures made them really interesting!! Clever idea and such fab embossing!! Love expecially the first card, with that sparkly gold banner!
Hugs and have a very Merry Christmas!

aussie aNNie said...

Beautiful ideas Carol and love what you come up with...elegant and classy cards.xx Wishing you the best of Christmas yet.xx{aNNie}

Wendy said...

They are all absolutely gorgeous, Carol! Love the design and the embossing on the card base! I also love the sentiment and all the pops of gold! Beautiful!!! TFS and hope you had a great day! Hugs~

Brenda said...

Love the design of these cards Carol! I love that "holly jolly" stamp, such a cool stamp! The gold doilies work great in this design and I am loving the embossing. Hugs, Brenda

Heidi MyLittleStampingBlog said...

This is a nice design for your mirror gold doilies. All the embossing is fun and I do like that sparkly ribbon! It is a nice idea to get three out of one layout!

LesleyG said...

Lovely sparkly cards, really like the embossed details, and your lottery envelope is cool too, hope it's a winner! Xxx

Mrs A. said...

Looks great in all 3 colour ways. Hugs Mrs A. and those darn elves.

Princess Judy Palmer said...

These are all gorgeous. I really like the vanilla one. The embossing folder on the banner is very nifty.

JD/ Jill said...

All the cards came out lovely!

debby4000 said...

Fabulous cards and love all the different colourways.
Thank you for joining us at Simon says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.
Luv
Debby