These particular cards were made for a holiday edition. You were supposed to use non-holiday products to create Christmas cards -- but you were allowed to use one holiday sentiment if you wanted. I actually thought it was a lot of fun, trying to look at our stamps with a different eye and making holiday cards.
This first card was using the Fabulous You set, making the bird a Christmas-red cardinal and using traditional Christmas colors.
This next card is using the Distressed Backgrounds set, with some trendy colors and a more contemporary feel.
Then I was playing around with the Love Doily set, trying to see if I could make a poinsetta-like flower with the doily. My first attempt was using darker colors with Kraft cardstock. I even cut out a few leaves with the doily to finish the flower.
I then tried it again, using brighter more vibrant colors.
I love the cute Owls set, so I definitely wanted to try to see if I could turn a card I already created into a holiday card. I changed out the colors and added a Santa hat, and I love how it turned out.
Since I was liking those colors so much, I pretty much used them again with a few changes. This one was clean and simple, with a fancy sentiment creating the holiday card. The large flourish was from the Swirls Around set.
Then I thought it would be fun to use what would definitely not be normal Christmas colors. I used the cute little Hello Blooms set, thinking that the musical flower may help lend to a holiday song.
And the last card I created was using the Honeycomb set, I went back to a traditional Christmas color scheme. I was so happy with how this card came together, this set is so easy to use as a background for most anything.
How do you think I did? None of the cards were selected for publication, but I loved how they all turned out. I need to work on some thank you cards here next, if I ever get a chance to create again, that is. :-)
Dani
