Card Stock
So my BFF is participating in a "Coffee House" Cabaret with her chorus as a fund-raiser. To that end, I have been busy dusting off my rubber stamp collection and making three sets of holiday cards for their silent auction. I've completed one set of six Christmas cards - each with a different design - and have halfway completed a set of six Hanukkah cards and a set of six generic Winter cards (ie: Happy Holidays, et al).
Each card is 4" x 5.5" and uses a basic white card as the base, then I use patterned paper and rubber stamps and watercolor pencils or Stampin' Write markers (which have both a brush tip and a fine tip) to make the card fronts, and lots of double-sided permanent adhesive to layer everything together.
Here are two examples from the Christmas card batch:
This first card is called "That Xmas Feeling" and features a stamped long-eared pudgy dog wearing a huge, fluffy Santa hat, holding a long knit stocking is his mouth. It is stamped on glossy white cardstock, hand-colored with markers, then layered on plain red cardstock, which has then been layered on background paper with a red-and-white tiny houndstooth design. A piece of about 1" wide red cardstock has been layered horizontally over the background paper but underneath the dog, with a small 3-D wreath sticker in the top right corner of the card.
The second card here is called "Santa Quartet" - four Santas, alternating tall and short, stamped on glossy white cardstock and hand colored with markers, layered on purple cardstock then on yellow cardstock (the yellow is only visible at the top and bottom, while the purple is a full frame around the stamped image), and layered on red Christmas-themed background paper with white writing in various sizes and fonts - at the very top it says TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, the other text is smaller and mostly hidden by the Santa stamp.
Each of these cards takes about half an hour to stamp, color, cut, layer, decorate with maybe some stickers or brads, and stamp an appropriate quote inside of the card. Each card also comes with a coordinating envelope.
Anyway, we decided to put a starting bid of $10 on each set, which is very reasonable for six cards. Ideally, I think it would be awesome if each set could raise $20-25 for my friend's chorus!
Each card is 4" x 5.5" and uses a basic white card as the base, then I use patterned paper and rubber stamps and watercolor pencils or Stampin' Write markers (which have both a brush tip and a fine tip) to make the card fronts, and lots of double-sided permanent adhesive to layer everything together.
Here are two examples from the Christmas card batch:
This first card is called "That Xmas Feeling" and features a stamped long-eared pudgy dog wearing a huge, fluffy Santa hat, holding a long knit stocking is his mouth. It is stamped on glossy white cardstock, hand-colored with markers, then layered on plain red cardstock, which has then been layered on background paper with a red-and-white tiny houndstooth design. A piece of about 1" wide red cardstock has been layered horizontally over the background paper but underneath the dog, with a small 3-D wreath sticker in the top right corner of the card.
The second card here is called "Santa Quartet" - four Santas, alternating tall and short, stamped on glossy white cardstock and hand colored with markers, layered on purple cardstock then on yellow cardstock (the yellow is only visible at the top and bottom, while the purple is a full frame around the stamped image), and layered on red Christmas-themed background paper with white writing in various sizes and fonts - at the very top it says TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, the other text is smaller and mostly hidden by the Santa stamp.
Each of these cards takes about half an hour to stamp, color, cut, layer, decorate with maybe some stickers or brads, and stamp an appropriate quote inside of the card. Each card also comes with a coordinating envelope.
Anyway, we decided to put a starting bid of $10 on each set, which is very reasonable for six cards. Ideally, I think it would be awesome if each set could raise $20-25 for my friend's chorus!