October's Stamp of the Month set: Yuletide Joy

I know that it can be hard to think of it now, but let's try to get in a festive mood and think of the upcoming holidays. October's Stamp of the Month set, Yuletide Joy, is perfect for helping us with our holiday projects. This set has 7 stamps, with adorable doodle-like designs of a stocking, gift, star and bell with coordinating sentiments. I have a few cards to share!

The first card is using a patterns from the Oh Deer! collection. The star was stamped in Slate ink, with the sentiments stamped in Saffron and Desert Sand. The flower in the star and stars on the border strip were colored in with markers and a few sequins added to finish off the card.



This next card is using a pattern from the City Sidewalks collection. The bell was stamped in Archival Black ink and colored with the smallest paintbrush and our Watercolor paints. When it was dry, I added some shimmer with the Shimmer brush. I love that thing, can you tell? I attached some of the Black & Gold ribbon as accents, with the sentiment "happy holidays" from the Short & Sweet set.



Here is a close-up of the shimmer accents.



This next card is using a pattern from the City Sidewalks collection again as well as a pattern from the Oh Deer collection. The stocking was stamped in Ruby ink on Ruby cardstock, with parts colored in with marker and the paper pieced top stamped on White Daisy.  The sentiment "Merry Christmas" was also stamped in Ruby ink under the banner with several sequins added along with some stitching for accents.



For this last card, I decided that while the gift could obviously be used with holiday designs, it can also easily be used for other present giving occasions. A diagonal-striped design in Saffron was used from the Enchantment collection with Cranberry and Cocoa cardstock. I stamped the gift and the sentiment "happy" in Cocoa ink with "birthday" in Cranberry ink from the Happy to Be Friends set. The stars and confetti were from the Happy for You set, stamped in Saffron.  Then I colored in parts of the gift and confetti with markers.



Enjoy!
Dani