Merry & Bright
Hi bloggers! Happy Saturday to you! I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’ve been getting into the festive mood earlier than usual this year, and I suspect that even if you don’t share my thought on this, you will…. after checking out today’s blog! Have you noticed the bright trend with Christmas cards? I personally love it. Totally cheery, totally on trend for Christmas. Join me in welcoming the adorable Laura Bassen as a guest on our blog today!
She’s made one two cards for us to feast our eyes on and get us ready for the holidays! Using Simon Says Stamp exclusive designs from Kelly Purkey, things suddenly just got much jollier. Now, I’ll fetch the hot cocoa and holiday albums as you read on… enjoy!
With an ink blender and using the teardrop stencil, I blended in pear tart ink onto juicy pear cardstock. Then I die cut the deer onto woodgrain carstock. I mounted both the sentiment sticker and deer with foam tape and added some enamel dots to the deer antlers.
Supplies:
With an ink blender and using the holiday words stencils, I blended in the various colors of inks creating this pattern.
What fun cards! Love ’em!!!
Festive and happy cards. Lovin’ all the color.
love the stag, very cool
very, very lovely cards. I really love that brightness! Love, Caro
Laura does the most amazing things with ink. Love how she used the stencils. And I ADORE her deer card with the festive ornaments in his antlers.
Beautiful cards, love the designs!!
Great cards love the circles
wonderful cards, love the enamel dots added to the antlers and the blending on the 2nd card. thanks for sharing and chance to win.
Both cards are darling. I especially like the second card. Now I want to try that technique. Thanks so much.
I love the colors on these cards! So cheery!
Laura is SO creative. Love all the things she makes,
What fun festive cards…love the use of the stencils.
These are both great examples! Thanks for sharing.
Wow, 2 fabulous cards! LOVE the ‘wooden’ reindeer and the 2nd card is beautifully colourful. TFS :)
I love all of Laura’s cards…and I think my hunting-loving family would love that deer card!
So adorable! Love the enamel dots!
Very cute & merry cards!
These are cute! I
like the deer head
with the gems.
Carla from Utah
Very fun cards! Love the colors!
love these colorful cards! Those circles are fabulous.
As always, some great card ideas!
I am lovin’ the stencils!! Thanks for the great ideas.
Great cards, love the second one with all the colors and words, so cool!
Wowowowowow!! LOVING all of your AMAZING creations!! Such FUN Designs!! THANKS SO MUCH for sharing and have a Fabulous Weekend!! ;)
The reindeer is SO cute!
Laura’s cards are really amazing! I love her tone-on-tone stenciled background, and that she used woodgrain cardstock for the deer on her first card, and her stenciled words on the 2nd card is so fun!
Thanks so much for sharing her talent with us!
These are such fun Christmas cards and some cool stencils.
Wow, these cards are amazing! Thanks for the inspiration.
These are awesome!
Great fun and masculine cards. Thx.
These are both very cute and lots of fun! The deer really brings on a smile! Clever!
The My Mind’s Eye Mistletoe Magic Enamel Dots really caught my eye. They looked good on the deer which was created by a die. Fantastic!
I love the circle design on the second card, and the reindeer is totally cute!
The deer card is just sweet. I really like the design and colors of the other card.
Super cute, love the colored dots on the rain-deers antlers!
Love the stencil work!
Laura’s cards are always fabulous. I love the reindeer head card…
Awesome cards here today!
Two lovely cards. I like the enamel dots on the reindeer. I follow the blog by email.
Those cards are totally fun!!
Great cards! I love that wood veneer, just added that to my wish list!
Cute cards!!!
Wow….I love how bright and eye catching these cards are!!
Super duper work on both cards, but the colors in the stenciled Holiday Words card just makes me smile.
That last card is just gorgeous!
Both of these are awesome cards, but especially the last one jumped right into my heart. I love all the bright colors on this one and it is so beautiful and still seems prettty easy to make for me. Great work on both thoug Laura, and thanks soo much for the insiration. Have a wondeful day hun.
Great card! Love the woodgrain deer head and the the colors and overlapping circles and word stencils are fab! :) Thx for the chance to win some blog candy. :)
Such a good idea for stencils!
I love those KP stencils. I also love the new look of designers using the wood grain paper to die cut. It gives such a unique look.
~Robin Redd
So nice ^^
Hugs from France
Lunéa