... making lots more Christmas cards and still no time to blog them. I've managed to make forty in the last couple of days.
I thought it was about time I stopped and showed some of what I've been doing, so here goes.
Because I've needed to get a lot of cards done in a short time I decided to use a favourite Tin can mail stamp several times. To save time colouring in I stamped with memento cocoa bean on to various Basic Grey papers to give a bit of variation of colour. So I'm submitting these for
Basic grey 59: anything goes.
The first three cards have the image stamped on to BG porcelain, with backgrounds of porcelain and also strips of My Mind's Eye paper:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZIMfHrCasW94n2g3Vt0PnOCOlG1ClPRCnnxBNaGxLVq7bU0kymm97q_iWurIYiJiNgjgOdLXIPhg6pbawG_W08TUakggNSrPl5cO2_DkOTHAVNNL2IFJKqnbflQ6esI5qkiNYSdSn9WxS/s400/2011+12+13+porcelain+3.jpg)
For the next card the image is stamped on to a piece of BG pyrus and the background is pyrus and a strip of MME paper:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZyVIas1knH5WXB6XmQEp16vTLPce6ED2hu_kcem0JdCVvva1tZgsWFl1oUn-wqlgHX1PNgEVWNlOllbN7f8x84dCiOM5VOB5NnaE7VNfI5r4UYkHb5gcz9PqT08EOtUTLv7a6TQhvL8r/s400/2011+12+13+pyrus.jpg)
The next two cards feature BG cappella papers and Tim Holtz tissue tape (the second one has some MME paper too):
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGqhzNPKR5EuatT3Ck-cqynbNhD-vzGhyphenhyphenX459bAl0yKm_6BT_YacAXL5icPf2gPyAMT3tz59z_epWuGht1cFgOHwW9Ft7jOLBTWyo90hthN_1cJ7sY1gsuILwOCPgayKlowvrzoiCSITB0/s400/2011+12+13+cappella+2.jpg)
The image is stamped on to BG Indian summer for the next card and the background paper is DCWV:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI78zskU8qQdjMpLEpRRYhiPmtSK13bGWvnLyfq0GHtSCDsTN1Za7wU1cWC7KWDF8XO4BFU_5IGjaa9xnepHv6MdTNz6vo44Z-OJOng50txJfU20X_maL2dMaaLF4XL6iPqnJ8sEDwOMqG/s400/2011+12+13+lily+kate.jpg)
BG urban priarie was used for the background of the stamp on the next card - background a mixture of the same star card as above and some more MME paper, with the addition of some Anna Griffin stitched ribbon:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIe3prANrXQL_u8GthKoxSbf2rcxBMFC9mu5fTDwYWaHvmhuFQ4osISZInvOrRbfZwH7bm79phxx7e4YZJWjeQh8-5fxVUspKsLFEVhhIsidO6FjDx6swbI5Xr8He8sG2mh_4IUvoe8lTC/s400/2011+12+13+urbain+priarie.jpg)
These are also for the following challenges:
Crop stop 49: music is all around us - inspired by 'Hark, the herald angels sing ...'
Lexi 55: untraditional Christmas - no red or green (most of these cards)