Its a Pool Party and Island Indigo Christmas

At home I have been having my own private
 stamp a stacks...
To challenge myself I pull out some
 non traditional christmas colours

 and set about creating a set of cards.

 "Something for Christmas"

 is a single A la carte stamp that you can purchase on its own

and I love what you can do with it, either with markers or with two coordinating ink pads.

 I made a couple of landscape oriented cards and used the ornament punch with the "Delightful decorations" stampset for the large baubles. I always use the lighter colour first then roll the rubber onto the darker ink pad to keep my lighter inkpad clean.

 The rest are all portrait style (up and down) cards.

Same stamps, same colours and with the

 "houndstooth" embossing folder providing some texture on 2/3s of the card front.

 Starting to look a bit familiar now... I ran some of the Island Indigo cardstock through the Big shot to emboss it with a different texture (square lattice folder) after punching it out.

 Here they are on the floor ... made in just a couple of hours ready to be posted out

and no two cards exactly the same. 

Peace on Earth...

 Oh Yes, it really is only 7 weeks (and a few days) to Christmas!!!

So I am getting started, in serious, on my Christmas cards.

This one is my new stamp. A single A la Carte stamp called:

Something for Christmas.

 It is so easy to use because you can colour it with Stampin' Write markers and get a pretty coloured panel to put on your cards or tags.
And, everyone can be different, depending on the colours you use.

I have used my in-colour markers:

Calypso Coral, Island Indigo, Pool Party, Lucky Limeade with some Real Red.

For inspiration I just flipped open the catalogue at page 15 and started to make the card using this stampset.  I wanted to use Lucky Limeade and Island Indigo cardstock.

Then, I cut the white cardstock a bit short and did the

I-meant-it-to-look-like-that style of card.

And I am pretty happy with the cheerful way it came out.

I have Sprinkled the Eyelet border edge with dazzling diamonds on 2-way glue and wrapped it with some Ruffled Lucky Limeade ribbon. The background stamping is The Contemp Christmas bauble.

Perfect and easy!