'Signs of Santa' Christmas Cards using Stamping Up Stamp and Die set. These cards feature the Elves. (Post #7 of 7)

Dear Bloggers,

This set of three cards feature the elves. I think the elves, just like Mrs Claus in my previous post, deserve serious recognition for all they do behind the scenes getting everything ready for Christmas.  Maybe Mrs Claus and the elves are the real heroes of Christmas!!!!!

Apologies, I realised that I did not clean all the loose glitter off some of my cards, so some of them appeared speckled. Yes, I should have cleaned the cards and taken the photos again, but I didn't. Sorry.

This card is one of seven in the series. Please see other posts using these stamps and dies here:

Signs of Santa Cards using Uniquely Creative's slim stitched die and Stamping Up's, 'Christmas Banners.' Set 1

Signs of Santa Cards using slim stitched die by Uniquely Creative and  'Christmas Banners 'by Stamping Up (set and 2)

Signs of Santa Cards using slim stitched die by Uniquely Creative and  'Christmas Banners 'by Stamping Up (sets1 and 2) - Photographic compilation of Sets 1 and 2

Signs of Santa Cards featuring Santa and Mrs Claus.

Signs of Santa Cards featuring 'Stacks of Elves'.

Signs of Santa Cards featuring Mrs Claus

Signs of Santa Cards featuring the Elves.

https://garlickjenny.blogspot.com/2022/11/signs-of-santa-christmas-cards-using.html

Post 8

https://garlickjenny.blogspot.com/2022/11/dear-bloggers-several-years-ago-i.html

Post 7

https://garlickjenny.blogspot.com/2022/11/dear-bloggers-several-years-ago-i.html

Post 6

https://garlickjenny.blogspot.com/2022/11/signs-of-santa-stacks-of-elves.html

Post 5

https://garlickjenny.blogspot.com/2022/11/signs-of-santa-by-stamping-up.html

Post 4

https://garlickjenny.blogspot.com/2022/11/sss-diffeent-set-up.html

Post 3

https://garlickjenny.blogspot.com/2022/11/christmas-cards-using-stamping-up-stamp.html

Post 2

https://garlickjenny.blogspot.com/2022/11/christmas-cards-using-stampin-up-stamp.html

Post 1. 

Bad glitter alert coming up x2

TFL

'Signs of Santa' Christmas Cards using Stamping Up Stamp and Die set. These cards feature Mrs Claus. (Post #6 of 7)

Dear Bloggers,

Several years ago I purchased, 'Signs of Santa', a super cute stamp, die and paper set by Stamping Up.

I industriously stamped, coloured and cut out images and then.....nothing. The delightful little elves, Santa and the rest of the Yuletide crew were unceremoniously placed into a draw, where they remained dejected for several years. My mojo had run out but this year it is back, so I was determined to resurrect these little guys and give  them the limelight that they deserved. I ended up making well over 30 cards from this set!!

This set of three cards features Mrs Claus.  I suspect she is the very overlooked success behind Santa. 

Here's to you Mrs Claus. You deserve recognition and it is your time to shine!!!!!!

'Signs of Santa' Christmas Cards using Stamping Up Stamp and Die sets: Stacks of Elves Post #5 of 7

Dear Bloggers,

Several years ago I purchased, 'Signs of Santa', a super cute stamp, die and paper set by Stamping Up.

I industriously stamped, coloured and cut out images and then.....nothing. The delightful little elves, Santa and the rest of the Yuletide crew were unceremoniously placed into a draw, where they remained dejected for several years. My mojo had run out but this year it is back, so I was determined to resurrect these little guys and give  them the limelight that they deserved. I ended up making well over 30 cards from this set!!

When I went online to see what others were making with the elves and there were lots and lots of cards with the cute little elves stacked on top of each other.  So, you guessed it, I made five cards with the cute little elves piled high.

TFL

'Signs of Santa' Christmas Cards using Stamping Up Stamp and Die set. These cards feature Santa and Mrs Claus. (Post #4 of 7)

Dear Bloggers,

Several years ago I purchased, 'Signs of Santa', a super cute stamp, die and paper set by Stamping Up.

I industriously stamped, coloured and cut out images and then.....nothing. The delightful little elves, Santa and the rest of the Yuletide crew were unceremoniously placed into a draw, where they remained dejected for several years. My mojo had run out but this year it is back, so I was determined to resurrect these little guys and give  them the limelight that they deserved. I ended up making well over 30 cards from this set!!

This set of 5 cards feature our favourite Christmas couple, Santa and his ever loving wife, Mrs Claus.  There is a bonus card at the end of this post showing Santa kicking back at he end of a hard day at the North Pole.

I hope that you like the distressed overlays I put on the photos: they took me ages to do!!!

Christmas Cards using Stamping Up Stamp and Die sets: 'Signs of Santa' and 'Christmas Banners' and Uniquely Creative dies: 'Slim Stacked Merry Christmas Die' and 'Slim 3 Window Die' (Post #3 of 7)

Dear Bloggers,

I have been playing around with photographing my cards different ways and this time I placed them into a Christmas scene.  The cards are the same ones from Posts 1 and 2 but the presentation is different. As I spent so long setting everything up and photographing the cards, I felt they warranted their own post.

Yikes! the 'Y' is missing from 'Merry.' 

Update, found it and reattached.

Christmas Cards using Stamping Up Stamp and Die sets: 'Signs of Santa' and 'Christmas Banners' and Uniquely Creative dies: 'Slim Stacked Merry Christmas Die' and 'Slim 3 Window Die' Post #2 of 7

Dear Bloggers,

Several years ago I purchased, 'Signs of Santa', a super cute stamp, die and paper set by Stamping Up.

I industriously stamped, coloured and cut out images and then.....nothing. The delightful little elves, Santa and the rest of the Yuletide crew were unceremoniously placed into a draw, where they remained for several years. My mojo had run out but this year it is back, so I was determined to resurrect these little guys and give  them the limelight that they deserved. I ended up making well over 30 cards from this set!!

I had quite a few elves that I had meticulously coloured but not cut out. I didn't really feel like fiddling around with the elf dies, so I used a versatile  die by Uniquely Creative, 'Slim 3 Window Die.' (A favourite). Each little Elven head was placed into the square template and I was very happy with the results.  The 'Slim 3 Window Die' is also fantastic as it allowed me to use all the pretty papers in the Collection. 

Stamping Up has in their current catalogue, a great stamp and die set called, 'Christmas Banners'.  I especially like the smallest banner as it seems to work so well with  many different cards.  I feel the banners are such a stylish and useful way of adding text to my cards.

Uniquely Creative's ,'Slim Stacked Merry Christmas Die' is one of my favourites dies of all time.  The image it cuts  is so gorgeous that it really should go onto the front of the card but it is also great used inside.   I had some gold foiled Christmas papers that were waiting for their forever home, and they looked amazing cut and inserted into the card.