Limited Supplies!

Usually when I talk about “limited supplies”, I mean to use what is sort of “within reach” of your craft table. Today I wanted to touch the subject from a different perspective…

When someone first gets started in stamping, it may seem as if one doesn’t have enough “supplies” like embellishments and such. But you don’t always have to use lots to make a pretty card. A popping color combination might just do the trick.

I think this card would qualify in that category:

This card uses the stamp set “Contempo Christmas” and “Confetti”. No other embellishments were used! The ornament was punched out with the matching punch, but if you didn’t have it, you could cut it out by hand too. This was one of the cards from my Christmas Stampathon this week. Quick, easy and multipliable.

While talking about the Christmas Stampathon, I better go ahead and show you the other cards as well.

Here is one that I’ve copied sort of from the catalog (page 42):

It uses the stamp set “Serene Snowflakes”. I decided to use the “ribbon punch” instead of Ribbon and the 1” circle punch instead of hand-cutting the centers…  Another thing that i changed was the color of the card itself. I used “Concord Crush”, because I guessed that’s what it was. Well I later saw in the index that they’ve used “Night of Navy”. But every one LOVED my (Concord Crush, Old Olive, More Mustard, Real Red) color combo :-)

The last card is simple but elegant:

The technique is called “reversed masking”. You basically cut an opening into your scrap paper first. Place this over the cardstock and stamp the images over the opening. Then sponge some around the edges… Very striking!

The stamp set used is a classic and must have set called “Lovely as a Tree” along with “Sincere Salutations”. Colors are Always Artichoke, Early Espresso and Crumb Cake.

I hope I am getting you inspired to get started on your Christmas cards… because you know that time will get away from you…