Beautiful Season Telescope Card & Christmas Star Card

I just want to quickly share these cards with you while the festive season is still around us and before the New Year kicks in! Prior to Christmas I held my last stamp clubs for 2011 (they will be resuming again in 2012!) and this is one of the cards we made using the Beautiful Season stamp set, Stazon Black ink and watercoloured using an Aqua Painter and Riding Hood Red, Old Olive, Crumb Cake and Soft Suede ink pads.

The larger section is made using the large scallop circle and the clear circle dies. The middle section is made using just the clear circle die, and the smaller section using the largest scallop circle on the scallop circle #2 die, and the 2 1/2″ circle punch.

This Christmas Star card is made by punching out a star from Vellum cardstock (OMG! I just realised this punch has been retired!) and using it as a reverse mask to sponge Crumb Cake ink onto Very Vanila cardstock. Keeping the mask in place it is then overstamped with the script stamp from French Foliage stamp set using Soft Suede ink. The mask is then removed and the Christmas greeting is stamped in Basic Black ink. The  lacey mount is made using a 9.9 x 9.9cm piece of Real Red cardstock, and punched using the Scalloped Trim Border and Scalloped Trim Corner punches. The pieces are layered together with a Crumb Cake mount embossed with the Petals a Plenty embossing folder. Super easy and super effective – well, I think so anyway!