Oxford Impressions - Christmas Wish

I was so excited recently when Suzanne of Oxford Impressions asked me to design with her new plate, Christmas Wishes.  This full stamp plate is filled with wintery goodness - Christmas and more!  As soon as I saw the Santa, I knew, for some reason, that I wanted to do him in blue.  This card uses the Santa, Post Card, December date, and snowflake stamps from the new set.  I stamped the Santa and colored him with Distress Inks, then cut him out - he's popped up on pop-dots.  The little postcard was simply made by stamping the sentiment, cutting out a rectangle and sanding the corners (so they wouldn't look so perfectly square and sharp), then using distress inks and some more stamps to fill in the rest.  I added a line of Christmas music from a vintage songbook, some seam binding, and some seriously distressed papers (some from Glitz's vintage blue line, and some of Tim Holtz's Core'dinations cardstock - sanded with sandpaper and distressed with his edge distress tool).

Here's another card, in the traditional Green and Red....

For this one, I once again cut out the main figure - she's adhered over the sleigh image.  I used a teensy holly image to stamp all around the edges, then colored in the berries where they showed.  The papers are from Lost and Found - my fave of the season!

And one more....

This one glitters in silver and gold, although it's hard to see in the picture.  The main image is mounted on a little tissue-paper-backed frame.  I had some gold tissue paper, but found that I couldn't cut it with my decorative edge scissors (not sharp enough, I suppose).  So I ran a rectangle of cardstock, about an inch bigger than I needed all around, through my Xyron sticker maker machine.  Then I carefully laid the sticky side of the cardstock down on the back side of the tissue paper (make sure it's smoothed out). It was then sturdy enough to cut with my deckle edge scissors.  The stars and snowflakes are stamped randomly and embossed with silver and gold.  I used a little glitter-covered silver star to accent the greeting.

There's still time to get those Christmas cards done!  If you need inspiration, you can check out the Gallery over at Oxford Impressions, too - with some seriously yummy vintage cards. :)