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Wednesday, October 21

2 dozen Christmas Cards from 3 sheets of scrapbook paper

Impossible you say?? Nope. I beg to differ. Today I will show you how I turned 3 printed Scrapbook papers, some cardstock, a bit of adhesive, a handful of rubber stamps and a Versamark and Jet Black Stazon ink pads into 24 Christmas Cards, size 6 x 4 1/4 inches. I began with 3 coordinated papers from this stack from Joann's.

Since I am sharing so many pics I left them at medium size. Please click on them to view larger!!


Here are the 3 sheets I choose. It is important to choose papers with lots of focal images and stripes.




First thing I did was cut each paper into segments and sections and set aside.




I designed them to fit in these ready made envies from Walmart. While I simply adore handmade envies, due to the sheer number of cards I will need for this Christmas I will be jazzing these up with some rubber stamping instead.

I grabbed some coordinating cardstock and made up the cards. To give them a bit of pizazz, I used a snowflakes background stamp and my Versamark pad on all of the card fronts.


This is how little waste I had left from cutting up the three sheets of scrapbook paper.


These are the images that were still left over after making 24 cards!! :)


Drum roll..........and here they are in sections of four. All are similar, yet different. I used Jet Black Stazon ink and a few stamps to give each one a little greeting on the fonts.





I hope this inspires you to find the time to make yourself some cards for this Christmas!! Remember, there are only 65 days left!!

7 comments:

Sandy said...

These are so cute!!! Great job :o)

Diann said...

Shelly, you did good girl...these are great and a great way to save on expensive Christmas cards...you sure got a lot for not much! Diann

Anonymous said...

AWESOME job Shelly!!! I love them!!!

Angie Hall Haviland said...

FABULOUS!!!! So neat Shelly!

TOPS #839 said...

Awesome Shelly!! Thank you for the tutorial! Your cards turned out BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

Julie Ann said...

Oh Shelly, these are so cute! What a great idea, too! Thanks for sharing :)

Bonnie said...

I love them. Will have to "borrow" the idea from you