Let Patterned Paper Do All the Work

When you're making many cards, for occasions such as Christmas, you need to get the most number of cards out of the least amount of work.  That's why you've probably noticed that many of the Christmas cards I've featured uses colourful patterened paper as the background.  Can you imagine the following card with a plain white background?  Not me.  And by using traditional Christmas colours, you're sure that everyone will come together in the end.

By the way, do you recognize the shape that is cut out from "Joy"?  I re-used them as snow decoration in the Rudolph cards.