Decking the Halls

Hi everyone. I hope you are all having a lovely weekend with plenty of crafting time to look forward too.  :-)

I have been busy with my Cardio Stamps and spent a happy afternoon a couple of weeks ago stamping out lots of images to make up in to some clean and simple cards.

The thing I like about this style of stamping is that you don't have to be precise and fading and irregularity all adds to the overall effect…in other words you really can't go wrong! It is really quite liberating to just let yourself go and just stamp away without having to worry about smudging or colouring something in wrong.

Here's one of the cards that i made using a couple of packs of stamps that I have. The owner of Card-io has inspired me with her use of black ink as a main colour this year as it really seems to tick a box in terms of cards that you could give to a man…something that I often stubble with (although why they don't like cute little bears, and whimsical little girls and boys, I really can't imagine!!)

If I am honest, this card probably took about 5 minutes to stamp out….instant gratification. Probably the longest part of the process was the matting and layering part, but I had a kind of manufacturing process for that and sat sticking together a bunch of cards together whilst watching something on TV, so the whole process was very relaxing.

I thought I would go ahead and enter a few challenges with this card, and here they are:

http://christmascardchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/challenge-52-inspiration-photo.html
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-205.html
http://cinspirations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/challenge-291-seasons-greetings.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/challenge-85.html
http://wedodoobadoo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/29-nov-we-do-doobadoo-challenge-get.html

Thanks for stopping by today.   :-)

Sharon x