Merry Christmas!

It’s been a long time. Between starting a new job and working on setting up my craft room/office I haven’t had time to do much in the way of making cards. I did do Halloween cards, it’s posted on my Instagram page, but it took a long time to get these Christmas cards made. As usual, they were much more work than I anticipated! 

I had seen many cards posted on Pinterest using the Stampin’Up Snowflake Sentiments Bundle. Gorgeous!! I managed to find a set and figured out a design.  

I wanted something in blues this year, 

so I went with a navy base, and I found this adorable Carta Bella print on Scrapbooks.com. Using vellum along with the glitter paper add elegance with sparkle. So Christmassy! The rest came together after that. 

The most difficult part was that the dies were sized for A2 cards and I wanted an A7 size. I got around that by cutting the strips of vellum and glitter paper to 6-7/8” long then cutting them twice, once with the full length die and then again using enough of the die off the edge to finish the cut. This left a bit of a gap, but I figured I’d do something decorative to take notice off it. 

After cutting single snowflakes from vellum and glitter paper, I cut mats of the print paper that were 2-1/2” x 4-7/8”. I thought about using a snowflake embossing folder on the navy, because some of the cards using this set had embossing, but decided it would be too much. 

I used the Sizzix Holiday Word Thinlits Dies to cut Merry Christmas out of navy cardstock, cut navy mats of 4-7/8” x 6-7/8”, and adhered the printed paper to the left side. Next I adhered the die cut vellum butting it up against the print, only on the edge so the adhesive wouldn’t show. Then I used adhesive in spots on the glitter die cuts and put them on top of the vellum.  

Very carefully, I added the vellum snowflakes by using some adhesive on the middle where I would be adding rhinestones later. 



On the vertical seam I added silver ribbon, glued on the sparkle snowflakes and the iridescent rhinestones. I glued the sentiment angled in such a way as to cover the gap in the die cuts. 

I cut 4-7/8” x 6-7/8” mats of the print paper for the inside and printed the greeting for the inside out on white cardstock.  

After attaching everything to a navy A7 base I was done, finally!  



They turned out gorgeous, didn’t they?

I’m entering this in the Simon Says: Cold As Ice challenge,  the Simon Says: Bling It On challenge, the DRU Challenge #183, the The House That Stamps Built Theme Challenge D1521 ~ Christmas – Words As the Focal Point, and the The House That Stamps Built Theme Challenge D821 ~ Christmas – Use Patterned Paper.






Comments

  1. HeatherDecember 26, 2021 at 9:16 PM

    Very pretty!! Great combo of colors and textures with the vellum and glitter paper! Thanks for playing with The House That Stamps Built.

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