Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Clean Christmas

Doodlebug's darling dimensional holly stickers and a fun-fonted sentiment: that's all you need for a clean Christmas card.

Card size 6.25" x 3.5"

And yes, I participled a noun because it was jolly good fun to do so. (I also verbed a participle. Ha! I could do this all night, but I'll stop now. You're welcome.)

When I showed this card to my son, he was taken aback. "I'm surprised you're making a Christmas card," he said. "It's not Christmas time!"

Oh, my son. If only you knew the power of new Christmas stamps. Resistance is futile.

Besides, trying to make a hundred-plus Christmas cards during Christmas time...well, that's just crazy talk.

Can I hear an amen?

Supplies
stamps: Simon Says Stamp For To Us
ink: Memento Luxe love letter
paper: Papertrey white
accessories: Doodlebug holly stickers

12 comments:

  1. AMEN! I only do about half of your total, but still not a lot of fun to try and do the end of November in order to get them in the mail on time. I have also challenged myself to make each card different so I can 'justify' the monumental pile of unused Christmas stamps I have acquired. ahem. Love the font of your sentiment....it conveys great joy!
    Lu C

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  2. Very cute! I will admit my first thought was "oh, pluuuuease!! Christmas already?!" Then, I remembered that I am possibly the only "card maker" who decided to give up the stress of making Christmas cards!

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  3. Ah. Christmasing in May! Amen.

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  4. Ha, just tell your son that Christmas comes around faster and faster as you age! We know this too well.

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  5. This just keeps Christmas in your heart all year long. And I love that sentiment....

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  6. In my experience resistance IS futile when it comes to Christmas stamps.
    Donna

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  7. AMEN! I'm proud of myself for having 26 or so Christmas cards done already. I don't have new Christmas stamps to play with but I have some that I got previously that have not yet been used. That's like new, right? I love those dimensional stickers. They don't look overly dimensional.

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  8. Thanks for the English lesson. I had to look up participle. Great card and sentiment.

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  9. Participled, verbed—Ha! As a wordsmith and mostly retired copyeditor (we never TRULY retire), I delight in your sense of humor. And I so appreciate your sense of correctness in spelling, syntax, punctuation, and all the rest. Makes me smile. In addition to your wonderful card-making skills, of course!

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  10. Amen, sister! Making Christmas cards is Christmas time is just cray-cray!!! Best to get them done before Halloween if possible so you can enjoy all the Fall festivities :-) I love how crisp this card is... the ink, the placement, the stickers. Well done!

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  11. First I thought I'd agree to your son. I mean, hey! Spring hasn't finally arrived and you're making christmas cards?!?!?!?!

    But then I remember a year when I had no trouble with sending my christmas cards in time even I had a accident at the end of November and couldn't use my right hand for weeks. No troubles, because in that year I started making christmas cards in January (!) and made some every month during the whole year.

    So even with the accident in Nov. I was able to send out a huge pile of cards to family and friends - just because I had so many cards on hand...

    Only my greetings had to be typed. I think that was ok.

    So, yes Susan, here is my AMEN ;-)


    So

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