CZ Designs outdid themselves this year with all the amazing stamps and dies that came out for Christmas. The clean and simple designs are so easy to make. No coloring. Just stamping and cutting with the matching dies. I used the same red cardstock in all of the cards and tags. There is a bonus card at the bottom of this post – check it out too.

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Check out the video above!

For this card –

• I stamped Simon Says Stamp Christmas Sweater background stamp onto My Favorite Things Cherry Cardstock using Hero Arts Unicorn (white) ink [SSS | EH | SBC]. I made about 6 backgrounds.
• I then cut 1 of the backgrounds into 4 pieces.
• I used CZ Designs Ho Ho Ho Deer Circle for the deer. I used the same die to cut out the nose and eyes. I thought that added a big pop.
• I used the Lawn Fawn Just Stitching Double Rectangle die [SSS | EH | SBC] on Neenah 100# Dessert Storm Cardstock to cut the frame and for the card itself.
• The red ribbon is from my stash.
• The ‘joyful’ is CZ Designs Joyful die. I cut a vellum shadow out of Ellen Hutson 40# vellum.
• Added a few gems from my stash.
• I also added Wink of Stella [SSS | SBC] on the joyful die cut. It’s hard to see in the picture but it really looks good ‘in real life’.
• The envelope is from either Gina K Designs or Simon Says Stamp.

For this card –

• I stamped Simon Says Stamp Christmas Sweater background stamp onto My Favorite Things Cherry Cardstock using Hero Arts Unicorn (white) ink [SSS | EH | SBC]. I made about 6 backgrounds.
• I then cut 1 of the backgrounds into 4 pieces.
• I used CZ Designs Ho Ho Ho Deer Circle for the deer. I used the same die to cut out the nose and eyes. I thought that added a big pop. The finished card is 4.25 x 4.25
• I used Neenah 100# Dessert Storm Cardstock for the card base.
• ‘Rudolph Sends his Love’ is from CZ Designs Tabbed Sentiments Holiday stamp set (there is a matching die to make tabs)
• The envelope is from either Gina K Designs or Simon Says Stamp. I cut down one envelope to fit the card. The video will show you how to do that. Very Easy!

For the tags –

• I used the CZ Designs Ho Ho Ho Tag Die.
• I then glued the tag onto another piece of cardstock and cut it out with scissors. You will see the pattern behind the Ho Ho Ho on the white tag. This is leftover from the backgrounds that I made (listed in the 2 cards above). I love that little detail.
• My Favorite Things Wild Cherry Cardstock and Neenah 110# Solar White [SSS | EH] for the tags.
• The ribbon is from my stash. I wrapped a piece of white string around the top to give it detail.
• I used Nuvo Gloss Cherry Red [SSS | EH | SBC] for the red dots.
• On the back of the tags I stamped ‘to’ and ‘from’ with Lawn Fawn Tiny Tag Sayings [SSS | EH | SBC]

For this card –

• I stamped Simon Says Stamp Christmas Sweater background stamp onto My Favorite Things Cherry Cardstock using Hero Arts Unicorn (white) ink [SSS | EH | SBC]. I made about 6 backgrounds.
• I saved all the letters from the CZ Designs Ho Ho Ho Tag die. Layered 2 on top of each other and placed them on top of the card.
• I used Nuvo Gloss White [SSS | EH | SBC] for the dots.

I love using leftovers from other projects!! Don’t you?

This card is my bonus card. I used –

• Neenah 100# Dessert Storm card stock
• Hero Arts Background Stamp Noel Print
• Avery Elle Postage Stamp die. This die cut the edges of the cardstock and also cut out the center. I popped up the center with craft foam. My favorite way to pop stuff up.
• The deer was stamped and embossed with the CZ Designs Postage Stamp stamp set and cut out with the coordinating dies.
• I used Brutus Monroe Embossing Ink and Gilded Embossing Powder.