Circle Christmas Cards Using the Painted Stripes Background Stamp

I am anxiously awaiting my demonstrator pre-order so that I can begin creating fall and holiday samples with the new 2025 products...but as I wait, I've been working on a few holiday items with the Painted Stripes Background stamp and a few retired products.  

Tip: The Painted Stripes background stamp is great for creating fast and easy backgrounds.  It is on the Last Chance List so it won't be available much longer.

I decided to make a few circle cards for a monthly card challenge and thought the background stamp would be fun to work with.  

For the first card, I used a large circle die to cut all but an inch on a folded piece of card stock.  I kept a small piece of the die off the card stock so that when cut, it would create a fold for the card. Then I stamped the Painted Striped background stamp twice, once horizontally and once vertically with Real Red ink.  This gave me a gingham pattern.  

I used the retired Jingle Jingle Jingle stamp set stamped with Crumb Cake ink for "Believe" and white embossed "in the magic" on Crumb Cake card stock. I fussy cut all the sentiment pieces out and adhered them to the card front.

I stamped the large bow from the Party Celebrations stamp set and fussy cut it out. I used dimensionals to adhere it to the top of the card. The fold for the card is behind the bow, which is hiding the small portion of the card that is not part of the circle curve.

For the second card, I cut two large circles using a circle die.  I glued the top of the circle to the second circle at the top and about a half inch long.  I used a scoring blade to score just below the glued area to create a fold similar to a book binding card. Then I stamped the Painted Stripes background stamp once in Granny Apple Green ink horizontally across the card. I used the random dots stamp from the Party Celebrations stamp set in Real Red ink between the green painted lines. 

I used the retired Santa Stache stamp set to stamp the nutcracker image in Tuxedo Black Memento ink and colored the image with Stampin' Blend alcohol markers.  I stamped the mustache another time and fussy cut it out. I adhered the nutcracker to the card at an angle and added the second mustache with dimensionals.  I added small rhinestone gems to his hat and jacket to add a little sparkle.  I stamped the large bow from the Party Celebrations stamp set in Blueberry Bushel ink and cut out only the bow portion, omitting the bow tails.  I adhered the bow to the top of the card with dimensionals. To finish the card, I stamped the sentiment "nutty or nice?" on a green stripe beside the nutcracker's hat.

Have you made a circle card? It is quite easy and gives a quirky vibe. :) I hope you will give it a try!