Christmas 2020
When I first saw the Colorado Craft Co. Big & Bold Holiday Ornament stamp , I knew I had found my 2020 Christmas card! I am loving their whole Big & Bold line, the designs are awesome. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do, except to emboss it in gold, then I saw a video on Scrapbook.com by Libby of Hero Arts, about their glimmer inks. They would be perfect to color it in! An ornament needs to hang from a tree so, after some searching, I found this Pine Bough Background stamp by Taylored Expressions. I wanted to use dark green cardstock and found a reasonable Timber Green cardstock with matching envelopes at Cardstock Warehouse . With a dark green card base and main mat, I decided to use a shimmer gold cardstock in-between to coordinate with the gold embossed ornament. I used LUXPaper gold metallic 80 lb. text . I was making 5”x7” cards (A7) so I cut the gold paper to 4.75”x6.75” and the Timber Green to 4.5”x6.5”. I needed a way to make the pine boughs stand out, so, sin