Cards with limited supplies...

It's great fun combining stamps from loads of different sets, playing with all your colours, getting out all the tools, but sometimes it's good to go minimalistic. I was inspired to make a pared-back Christmas card today by One Layer Wednesday where one-layer cards using a red and white or cream colour scheme is the challenge. I also wanted to make a card incorporating leaves for the fabulous autumn-themed challenge over at Make My Monday, so I tried that in a red and cream colourway too. Come and have a look:

Here's the Christmas card stamped in delicious Cherry Cobbler ink on the soft Naturals Ivory card stock. Every time I use the wonderful Season of Joy set I'm struck by new ways of combining the images. It really is a brilliant stamp set - and not just for Christmas either!

I hadn't used my adored French Foliage stamp set for about two minutes so I thought it was time it came out for my leafy card! I wanted it to look as if the leaves had blown in, so I stamped them on Confetti Cream card stock - the speckles add a lot of movement. It can be hard to get the positioning right on cards like these but I find that working it out on scrap paper first is helpful and of course a stamp-a-majig is your best friend for stamping things exactly where you want them!

Supplies needed for these cards:

CHRISTMAS CARD

Stamps: Season of Joy

Ink: Cherry Cobbler

Card stock: Naturals Ivory

Other: Stamp-a-majig, Cherry Cobbler marker

THANK YOU CARD

Stamps: French Foliage, Petite Pairs (sentiment)

Ink: Cherry Cobbler

Card stock: Confetti Cream

Other: Stamp-a-majig, Cherry Cobbler marker

I'd be delighted to order any of these supplies for you and I can have them delivered to your address in the UK. I am committed to providing excellent customer service and am always happy to help and advise. Just send me an email or give me a call on 01280 820593. 

I hope you had a happy halloween. We don't dress up or go door-to-door in our family, but we do go out for a slap-up meal and we usually take in a film too! This year we were a rather depleted family, because my youngest son is away on his school trip, but we had a lovely time at Frankie and Benny's - including a properly gruesome halloween moment when my oldest son's molar came out and there was blood everywhere! He was perfectly cheerful about it and the loss of the tooth certainly didn't prevent him from doing full justice to a large pizza! Afterwards we went to the cinema and had a giggle at Johnny English Reborn (worth seeing for the adjusting-the-chair-in-a-meeting scene alone!)

Thank you so much for joining me today. I'll be back tomorrow doing something Christmassy, so do come and have a look if you have a minute. Hope to see you soon,