One of the paper pads I wanted to use this year was Jingle All the Way from My Minds Eye.  I had picked it up a couple years ago because I liked the colors.  Also, with some of the prints having a less serious feel, like the candy canes, and others having a more traditional feel, like the ornaments, I figured it would be easy to make a mix of Christmas cards that would appeal to many recipients.

My favorite card uses a peppermint stripe for the background and the candy cane print for the focal panel.  After stamping the sentiment, the ends are fish-tailed and matted on a piece of dark teal cardstock that matches the holly leaves in the candy cane paper.  Three sizes of circles were die cut from red glitter paper and added for embellishment.

With the simple pattern and all of the colors, the watercolor stripe would work with just about any of the papers in the paper pad.  Since I found the ornament print the hardest to pair with other papers I decided to use it with the stripes.  Dark teal cardstock was used for matting, a teal satin mirror cardstock banner was added behind the ornament focal panel and a few clear crystal drops were added for a bit more shine.

The next card used a new-to-me card sketch, #516 from MFT.  I liked the combo of the red plaid with the poinsettia print and used those for the background and focal panel.  Using the “Merry Christmas” paper worked as both the horizontal panel and the sentiment.  For some sparkle, white shimmer paper was used for the vertical banner and Wink of Stella was used to highlight the poinsettias.

Since the holly paper only had 3 colors, white and 2 shades of teal, it was easy to decide which paper to use for the background.  To break up all the teal, a piece of white textured pearlescent paper was used for the vertical panel on the left side of the card.  To finish the card, a sentiment was stamped and popped up with foam tape.

The next card used more of the poinsettia/plaid paper combo.  This time with a multi-colored plaid which picked up on more of the colors in the poinsettia paper.  A gold Love from Lizi peel-off was used to separate the 2 prints.  A white ribbon was tied around the left side of the card and the sentiment was popped up with foam tape.

The snowflake print was one of my favorites but I wasn’t sure what to pair it with.  I thought about sticking with the traditional red and green Christmas colors but decided to go non-traditional with pink.  A pastel pink cardstock was used for the background and a pink plaid was used for the strips on the left side of the card.  I added even more pink with the pink iridescent glitter Love from Lizi peel-offs matting the plaid strips.  All of the other matting was done with a dark pink cardstock.

With all of the colors and prints, the paper pad was quite fun to use.  I did end up with more scraps that usual as not all of the papers could be paired together.  The colors in this paper pad reminded me of an Authentique paper pad I had used last year where I also had a few more scraps than normal.  Maybe I’ll have to pull out those scraps and see what I can do.