Christmas Card Prototype {and one more card}

Is it only scrapbookers that think of Christmas all year, especially mid-summer? I really went overboard with my cards last year. I mean I made a card that looked like a stained glass window and well, it nearly drove me crazy. So I vowed not again! I would start earlier and go simpler! I found a sheet of postage stamp paper in my non-CTMH stash while organizing the other day and thought it would look pretty on a Christmas card.

I added the gold trim and hand wrote 'noel' (as if that wasn't obvious). I will practice that writing before cranking them out, but guess what? I don't have to buy a single thing! I already have enough supplies to make 25 of these cards. How cool is that? So I think this will be my card this year--try not to act too shocked--no stamping!

I really have been loving all that new ribbon I bought the other day--in fact this ribbon I got on a second Hobby Lobby run!! And, why yes, that is a Cuttlebug-embossed piece of kraft paper on this card.

Details:

Card 1: all from stash, gold paint pen from Zig

Card 2: stamp-Buttoned Together (CTMH) desert sand ink (CTMH) kraft-stash, ribbon HL