September Christmas cards: Nature's Christmas

Whew! I'm just squeezing in a few Christmas cards for September. I struggled finding a layout I really liked for this month's cards, so I made five cards with the same vintage look and feel but slightly different designs.

I used the Nature's Christmas stamp set (Stampin' Up!) for these cards. It's an older set, but new to me -- I recently got a secondhand set from a friend of a friend, so I wanted to try it out. I used the wreath and bird house images and "Merry Christmas" for the focal panels and colored them using Prisma Color pencils. I cut out the images with stitched dies and matted the panels with Cherry Cobbler card stock.

I used Crumb Cake card bases to keep with the vintage look, and I embossed each one with a different embossing folder. I don't use my embossing folders very often, but I love the texture. I used narrow green ribbon, gold rickrack, and gold sequins to embellish the cards.

Inside the cards I added a panel of vanilla card stock stamped with a sentiment in dark brown. I also stamped a poinsettia image in the lower left and upper right corners using Crumb Cake, and I think it adds a nice finishing touch.

September just flew by, and I know October will be the same. I'm not planning to make any Christmas cards in October, but who knows. I do want to make some autumn and Halloween cards, so hopefully I'll have some of those to share in the coming weeks.

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