Spring Card from Christmas Stamps
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! The fabulous and talented Debby Hughes is back for the last time in 2016 and showing us some fun ways to make the most of our Christmas stamps all year long! Read on!
Hello it’s Debby here today with a Spring birthday card made with Christmas stamps to stretch my Holiday supplies into the New Year. Often among the Santa’s and reindeer of Christmas stamp sets are a lot of small images that can be used all year round. Today I pulled out a poinsettia from Advent Holiday Icons, a leaf sprig from Christmas Essentials, a berry from Winter Flowers and a heart + star burst images from the Merry & Bright set. I combined these with a ‘Happy’ die from Happy Holidays and ‘birthday’ from the You Matter stamp set.
I started out by scoring a side folding white card base and then used a Stitched Rectangle die to draw a pencil rectangle of the front of the card. I then stamped the ‘birthday’ in Onyx Black ink against the pencil line and proceeded to stamp the rest of the images around the word and contained within the pencil rectangle. To make sure this card resembled nothing like a Holiday card I used a bright mix of inks: Teeny Bikini, Hydrangea, Lake Shores, Jelly Bean and Sunshine. When all the stamping was complete I erased the pencil lines and then added the ‘Happy’ die cut from card inked in Teeny Bikini. This ensured the pink matched perfectly with the hearts I’d already stamped. I added dots with a glitter pen to fill in any larger areas and a couple of clear sequins to embellish.
While all my supplies were still out I quickly repeated the design on another piece of card and cut with the Stitched Dress Up Tag to create a matching tag.
This is my last post on the Simon blog for 2016 I want to wish everyone the happiest of Holidays and a creative New Year and I will see you all again in 2017!
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Thanks so much for reading today, and thanks to Debby for being our guest!
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Super cute card and tag!!! Way to stretch your stamps and dies!!!
How fun and pretty and clever! Thank for sharing.
Wow. Four different stamp sets! I am impressed. Very pretty spring card.
Love Debby’s card and video.
What a great example of stretching your stamps and dies!! Absolutely lovely!
This bright card using Christmas stamps is such a cheery design. Even if I love Christmas, I’m looking forward to spring and all the blooming.
What a lovely fresh card!
I love the pretty flower background!! Super sweet!
Lovely card and tag Debbie! TFS
Pretty spring card and tag. Nice to see a different theme other than Christmas right now :)
They are the pretty pair!
Pretty background!
Oh my gosh, what a great idea and way to stretch your stamp set! This is so pretty
Love the teeny bikini colour!
So pretty! Definitely doesn’t look like a Christmas set :)
Love the idea of finding small elements and making a background!! Love your card, it’s very pretty! Wouldn’t even know they came from Christmas stamp sets, LOL!! Great job and thanks for sharing.
Love this card and tag
Clever and creative way to use those tiny images to make a card for any season! Love this
Beautiful spring birthday card! Love stretching your supplies and using them outside the box! Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas!!
Love the background you created.
Very pretty card, love these spring colors and how you have stretched those holiday floral stamp sets!
SQUEAL!! SUPER FUN!! THANKS for sharing the Video too!! Have a FABULOUS Holiday and SO EXCITED to see what’s to come in 2017!! =)
Thanks for the great inspiration–Christmas stamps to make spring cards–love it!
DELIGHTFUL set!
THANK YOU for sharing, it was such a pleasure to watch and listen as you created :)
These are truly beautiful Debby’ I love that Tombo eraser ‘pen’ too. I have got to try and get one of those!
Great Inspiration. Such a cheery card.
So creative and fun!!, love the color combo!!
Great card, Debby. As usual, your ideas are so clever & unique.
Love it when we find more uses than the planned use for our stamps.
I love this! Thanks for sharing. Always love Debby’s ideas and videos. Thanks for sharing!!
Beautiful stamping
and coloring on this
colorful card. Great
use of the stamps.
Merry Christmas.
Carla from Utah
great colors on a beautiful card . . .happy holidays!
Such a bright and beautiful spring card! Gives us light at the end of this dark cold winter!
This is a great spring card.
I love the colors used on the card and tag. It definetly shows “Happy”!
Great idea to use these stamps for a spring card.
This is a really pretty card, cleaverly done. Happy Holiday and Happy New Year to you, too, Debby.
Beautiful floral card!
Beautiful card and tag! Love the colors!!
beautiful tag and card set.
Another great tutorial from Debby. Love those stamps and ink colors. Cheers
I love the repetitive stamping pattern. Full use of one’s stamps!
What a clever idea! I love multi-use stamps
Very clever!!
i luv seeing new ways to stretch stamps and this turned out so pretty
I love seeing ways to stretch the use of stamps, thanks!
What a cute card! I love the idea of making a tag to go along with the card. Thanks so much for sharing these with us!
What a great idea . I like that the video was not too long and it seems quite easy to replicate.
That’s a really gr8 idea to use those smaller stamps! Thanks for sharing!
Great Card & Tag!
Love seeing ways to use stamps in new ways!!!
Thanks!