No Time To Stamp?

Hi everyone — I made it for 10 Minute Tuesday today — sorry about the lapse last week!!! And I am multi-tasking today as my card not only works for 10 Minute Tuesday, but also for the Christmas Card Challenge I am running in the Flourishes forum. Check it out — all are welcome to play!!! Here’s my card:

I used what I consider one of the easiest Christmas sets ever to use — Flourished Christmas. It features this gorgeous, flourishy tree as well as a reindeer with antlers everyone loves!!! He is my kind of deer!!! I love this tree as it is so simple to use — stamp it, and be done if you like. It also looks great embossed, and on today’s card I merely stamped it in brown ink and accented it just a bit with the Quickie Glue Pen and SU Dazzling Diamonds. I have also decorated it in the past with Dew Drops!

My Merry Christmas sentiment is in the same set, as is my inside verse, which reads: May your Christmas flourish with peace and good will. My Merry Christmas is stamped on Very Vanilla and then cut and embossed using one of the new Nestabilities tag dies by Spellbinders. This one is a slider for ribbons — how fun!!!! My velvet ribbon is run through it and attached back to itself with brads — quick and easy and I love the rich and elegant look it lends!!!

My tree and sentiment panelsare outlined with a Sharpie Metallic Gold pen. The tree is then framed with a scrap I found of gold mirrored cardstock. The background paper is from Scarlet’s Letter by Basic Grey. LOVE this pack. Although it is not one of the newest packs out by BG, it is new to me and I just love the rich colors it has. I LOVE browns and just haven’t used them as much lately as I used to, so I am really enjoying the brown tones and other dark neutralsin this paper pack. The sheer ribbon is run through 2 holes punched with my eyelet setter and hammer and as I’ve said before, I really like the delicate feel of this sheer ribbon — superior to any I’ve used before — it is by May Arts.

• Stamps: Flourished Christmas by Flourishes
• Paper: SU Very Vanilla, unknown Mirrored Gold, Scarlet’s Letter by Basic Grey
• Ink: SU Basic Brown
• Accessories: Velvet and Sheer Ribbon, Gold Brads, Nestability Tags by Spellbinders, Gold Metallic Sharpie, Quickie Glue Pen, SU Dazzling Diamonds, Dimensionals, Eyelet Setter, Hammer, Piercer, Mat Pack

Editing to Add: Let me address the issue of 10 Minutes — LOL!!! Do I design and make these cards in only 10 Minutes — NO!!! I am slow at design; however, once the design is there to follow, do I feel this is a really quick card to reproduce — Yes, absolutely!!! The paper cuts are all easy, the stamping is minimal. And, OK, perhaps on this card using the Nestability die and then putting the brads in the velvet (really easy and quick), may push this a bit beyond the 10 minutes to reproduce, but I love the look and feel it’s worth the extra couple minutes. But if 10 minutes is important, then change the sentiment slider with ribbon/brads to a simple oval punched sentiment — it would still look great and save a couple minutes!!!

Thank you so much for stopping in — I truly appreciate it. Tomorrow I plan to start a new regular (I hope) feature for Wednesday’s called — May I Suggest…. Hope you can stop by to check it out!!! Have a wonderful week everyone!!!