Rare Earth Christmas stamps

The new rare Earth Christmas stamps are out early enough for people to start planning their Christmas cards. They probably work best with a load and fold positioning aid because the stamps I tried were frames and benefit from keeping the edges straight and symmetrical . However, I managed with a home made stamping tool made from an acrylic clip board with another piece of clear acrylic taped to it.

Two frames are intertwined to make a star. The 3D tree is made from folded squares stamped withe the background design. The folded squares are joined together to form a tree. 

This time I used three of the frames for the background, with the framed sentiment inside. Poinsettias made from Tattered Lace dies decorate the card.

Again, intertwining frames were used to create the outer star. I used tea-bag folding techniques to create the smaller stars. Scrabble tiles form the word JOY.

The background was made with distress inks. The Christmas Tree was stamped onto a similar coloured card and then matted and layered onto black then white card. The card was decorated with matching stars and black and silverfpsoinsettias.

You can see how the frames give interest and depth when they are layered up.

The stamped squares fit nicely in the Tattered Lace pop up box card. I cut out the Christmas tree, some presents and added poinsettias for decoration.

I stamped the background on paper decorated with distress inks. This time I added animals from the magical forest set of Rare Earth stamps. I cut a sentiment from one of the framed borders.