Annual Christmas cardmaking, part 1
Every year for the past two years, I have made my own Christmas cards. This year is no different except I'm posting the cards I make as I make them and starting early. The past two years I have started with purchasing the Christmas card kit from Close to My Heart in addition to making my own designs. This year they are all my own. Close to My Heart did make a card kit for this year but I just wasn't that happy with the look of it. So this year I'm making all my own designs with some inspiration from Pinterest and Papertry Ink. This week I came up with two designs using Papertrey Ink's stamp set: Tremendous Treats: Christmas stamp set, matching Papertrey Ink dies, and various Mat stack dies. First is the Gingerbread man card. "Sweetest Holiday" card I had the perfect christmas paper to use as the background with the Gingerbread man stamp. All of my cards are 4 by 5 1/2 inches unless I note otherwise. I cut the patterned paper down to 3 7/8 by 5