Hi Everyone!
Happy Tuesday! Three cards for the price of a single visit today! I decided to do a couple of clean and simple cards for the holidays. These are cards that can be done in around 10 minutes. I love cards for the holidays which still look stylish, but can be made quickly. I used Stampin Up's Dasher for two cards and then Autumn Days.
How many times can I use Dasher? :-) I absolutely love this stamp and for $8.95 it's an amazing price for such a versatile stamp. I've shown you two Dasher cards already and here are two more.
Dasher – Blue and White – for the diva coffee break challenge this week. This is their design challenge DCDB#137. Check out this site for weekly color and design challenges. I loved the layout this week and couldn't help but use Dasher. 🙂
I loved the simplicity of the layout challenge. I stamped Dasher with white embossing powder onto a Night of Navy matt which was 2 1/2 inches square. I then cut a piece of Whisper White card stock 2 3/4 inches square. The final matt is another piece of Night of Navy 2 7/8 square. I placed the image onto Shimmer White paper. The ribbon bow and the ribbon around the card are both Night of Navy. The sentiment is from Short and Sweet (another set that I get a tremendous amount of use out of.) I stamped it in Night of Navy. Thanks to the Divas for the challenge – I enjoyed working with the simplicity of the layout.
One more Dasher card for you. This next one uses Garden Green card stock and features the fabulous in color Crushed Curry. I hadn't realized how fabulous this color was until I started using it with my Christmas Colors. The vibrancy of the red and green really highlight the gorgeous yellow tones of the Crushed Curry.
I cut a circle into the Garden Green card stock using my Circle Scissors plus and stamped Dasher onto a piece of Whisper White card stock and matted him behind the circle.
I used Garden Green classic ink to stamp Dasher and used Crushed Curry marker to color in his horns. I then used my Versamarker to cover the image and used Iridescent Ice embossing powder to give him the bling that I wanted. The sentiment was stamped in Garden Green ink on Whisper White paper. The sentiment is from the Many Merry Messages set.
I used the Crushed Curry polka dot ribbon. Jaydee tip: The polka dot ribbon is very versatile and with a little manipulation of the ribbon you can create either a plain ribbon with a plain bow and knot; a polka dot ribbon with a polka dot bow and plain knot; a plain ribbon and bow, with a polka dot knot. In this case I decided to highlight the polka dots, but also show the plain side to fit with the scalloped Crushed Curry matt. If you are looking for pointers on tying the knots with this ribbon, just drop me an email or leave a comment.
My final clean and simple card is a thanksgiving card. I used the challenge from Splitcoaststampers. For this card I used Very Vanilla paper as the card and used my Big Shot texturz plate to create some texture and background. I love my big shot and use the texturz plates often. I stamped the pine cone image from the Autumn Days set onto Very Vanilla. I colored the image with Soft Suede and Old Olive markers. The image piece is 2 1/4 square with a thin matt of the Old Olive. I used the textured card stock for the Soft Suede backing. The sentiment is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes and was stamped in Soft Suede
So there you go. Three cards for the price of a single visit today. If you like the Dasher cards and haven't seen the others I've posted here and here. I'm thinking he might make more appearances before Christmas 🙂
Tomorrow is my MojoMonday on a Wednesday update 🙂 I hope you enjoyed the clean and simple cards today and would love to hear your feedback.
As always, thank you for spending time in my area of the stamping blogosphere. Your visit is always appreciated.
Peace
Jaydee
On a personal note…. many thanks to those of you who have visited and left comments and visit my page everyday.
2 Responses
Wow! Thanks so much for playing along with the Diva challenge… Your card is beautiful, elegant, and now on my list of CASEing 😉
There’s a new challenge tomorrow, in case you want to play again.
Greetings.
I love the clean and simple pine cone