Christmas Cards

I have very few Christmas stamps since I've never made Christmas cards before.  This year I have the Dasher stamp!  

What's not to love about this stamp? On the one hand it's low key and simple and yet you can go nuts with those magnificent antlers.  So I went a little nuts!

 

I feel like such a rebel making black Christmas cards.  On  this one I used my new lace punch and added glitter to the long antlers.  You can see it better here.

Too much maybe? So I just used touches of glitter on the swirlies of the antlers this time.  That didn't seem quite festive enough, so I added some silver embossed snowflakes, and two dangly snowflakes.

Here's another Dasher creation - this time going tone-on-tone for subtlety, and then adding some blingies to bring it to life.  The same lace bunch is used to add a border.  The brown strip on the side went for a ride through the Big Shot with the Vintage embossing envelope.  I am loving my Big Shot.

Ok one more:

Here's the same lace punch in action.  I threaded narrow ribbon through it, and then used some blingies to add some zip to it.

I love how versatile the Dasher stamp is.  I might try making some more traditional Christmas cards this week. 

This blog entry was originally done for my Stampin' Up site at http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/moniera/blog