Quick designer paper Christmas cards using All is Calm DSP by Stampin' Up

Each year, there's always at least one Stampin' Up Christmas designer paper pack that wows me to bits! This year it's All Is Calm - have you seen it yet? It's full of gorgeous, subtle designs, some of which will work just as well after the festive season (thanks Stampin' Up!) I've been making some quick cards with mine - come and see:

These papers are perfect as backgrounds. I've simply added a popped up banner and embellished with Frosted Sequins. The sentiment I've used today is from Making Spirits Bright, a fabulous set featuring some fun drinks images and a set of greetings in an up-to-date font that you'll want to use over and over again.

That banner was easy to make using Stampin' Up's Simply Scored tool and the ribbon tails were created with a click of the 1" square punch. Grey may not seem the first choice for a Christmas card but I love the nordic feel of it with crisp white and a dash of red. These snowflakes are so fun and come in the same pot as the Frosted Sequins.

And this one's so icy looking it makes me huddle into my woollies (or could that be the lack of heating around here!)

I could have gone on making these cards with all the other papers in this pack but I was rudely interrupted by my canine baby, woofing that she needed my attention!

I'll be linking these cards up with the final Rudolph Day of the year. I'd like to say a great big thank you to the fabulous and tireless Sarn for keeping us making festive cards all through the year. She is bowing out as host of the challenge and I'll look forward to joining in with Maureen of Scrappymo who will be taking over the challenge.

I'm also linking up with Just add Ink where I found this grear sketch.

It's just perfect for using your designer paper snippets so I shall pop down to the Snippets Playground with these cards too.

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All Is Calm Specialty Designer Series Paper £11.50	Making Spirits Bright Wood-Mount Stamp Set £24.95	Simply Scored £25.95
1" Square Punch £14.25	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad £4.95	Frosted Sequins £4.50

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Are you wondering how we're getting on with our pup? Well she's a treasure! Life seems to be conspiring to make things harder than they need to be though. My computer broke down on Sunday night and the boiler gave up yesterday morning! How's that for grim?! We are still smiling though (although there might just be a suggestion of gritted teeth involved and we are wearing an awful lot of jumpers!)

See you tomorrow for the fabulousness that is the Stampin' Up Artisan Design Team blog hop!