Oh, my goodness…how can Christmas be coming so quickly. I don’t know about you but I’m far from organised. I’m trying, but the days seem to whizz by and before we now it Santa will have been.

The theme for this months bloghop is Festive Season.

I don’t know if you’ve looked at the September to December mini catalogue, but along with online specials, I think this is one of the best ranges of Christmas products available this year from Stampin’ Up!

So, for this bloghop I’ve used the Delicate Pines photopolymer stamp set, the Traditional Labels stamps and dies and the Merry Christmas stamp set.

Using a single sheet of A4 card, I trimmed 1cm off the top and side of the card and then measured and drew a cross in pencil, making sure not to press too hard, through the centre of the card (lines from top to bottom and side to side).

Starting with the largest snowflake from the Delicate Pines set, I stamped in the centre of the card where the two lines crossed.

I continued to stamp the other images from the stamp set in different colours along the horizontal and vertical lines, ensuring that I went above, below and either side.

The colours I used were Real Red, Shaded Spruce, Garden Green, Mossy Meadow, Soft Seafoam and Early Espresso for the pine cones.

Once I was happy that I hadn’t got gaps and it all looked nice and even, I cut the card into 4 equal layers.

I used the Traditional Labels stamps and dies on two of the layers, the Merry Christmas stamp on another and the sentiments from the Delicate Pines set on the fourth. Mounting them onto different coloured card bases to make them pop.

I then used these four layers to create 4 different cards and embellished with Traditional Sequins and ribbons. Of course I didn’t forget to stamp the insides with sentiments and foliage images too!

Hope you’ve felt inspired to give this technique a go – its a pretty easy way to make lots of cards at the same time!

Delicate Pines Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) £23.00	Traditional Labels Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) £18.00	Traditional Labels Dies £27.00	Merry Christmas Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) £17.00
Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad £8.50	Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad £8.50	Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad £8.50	Soft Sea Foam Classic Stampin' Pad £8.50
Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad £8.50	Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad £8.50	Real Red 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Shiny Ribbon £9.50	Shaded Spruce & Gold Edged 7/8" (2.2 Cm) Ribbon £11.25
Traditional Sparkling Sequins £7.50	Silver 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Foil Sheets £4.75

Please hop along to the next hop on the blog and see what others have created.