Noel, A Christmas Card for the MojoMonday#477 Challenge

Another day, another challenge card.  I think I still need a few more cards too.  Anyway, this was a neat sketch, but one of those I had to really think about. If you put two things together to make one card face, they really need to compliment each other.

I have been looking for an excuse to use this DSP, Fancy Frost.  It is pre embossed paper all in white that you can use as is or color.  It's a great use for the new soft brayers.  However, mine were in transit so I just sponged on the color by hand.

My colors are Whisper White, Crumb Cake and Tempting Turquoise.   I know, TT is a very strong color, but if you use a light hand it can look like this.  Surprised me too.  I did some googling for alt Christmas colors, and it seems like at least for this year, the Bone, turquoise and white combo is very in.   I don't have bone, I have Very Vanilla, but that is not bone, I choose to go more to the brown with Crumb Cake. Brown and blues do very well together.

I cut one piece from my Fancy Frost design the size I needed it and then cut for the sketch. It is not down the middle, but slightly off set from the middle. Here is the sketch so you can see.

So here you can see the offset of the sketch.   I used my sentiment as the piece across the bottom and rimmed the front using gold foil.

I hope this has given you just a bit of inspiration, that would make me very happy.  Have a great week and thanks for stopping by.

Embellished Ornaments Clear-Mount Stamp Set

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Delicate Ornament Thinlits Dies

$29.00

Wonderful Wreath Framelits Dies

$25.00

Fancy Frost Specialty Designer Series Paper

$13.00

Baker's Twine Trio Pack

$9.00

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Bright and Beautiful Season, A Christmas Card

Christmas is getting so close! I'm on my finishing for my gifts and cards. Hope to have it all gone soon. Meanwhile I still need a few more Christmas cards.  One with the Merry Monday challenge.

So, here is this weeks inspiration piece. And the Challenge is to put candy canes on your card.
That took some thought and in the end I did something simple, but I believe, beautiful.

I used a piece of Candy Cane Lane DSP over top of Real Red with Real Red twine wrapped around.  The sentiment is from last years Embellished Ornament set, still in the Annual catalog though. It's one of my favorites, and 3 rhinestones for bling.

I put my sentiment down first, usually I do that last, but I wanted to see how much room I had before I cut my DSP and card stock.  My red bottom layer is 1 3/4" and my DSP is 1 1/2".

Embellished Ornaments Clear-Mount Stamp Set

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Candy Cane Lane Baker's Twine

$6.00

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

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Stampin Up, Embellished Ornaments

This is one of my class cards for this month. They had such a good time with it. I have to admit, this is my favorite set from the Holiday catalog this year. You Just can't make a bad card using it. The one on the left is die cut, I used one of the Circle framelits for the back side.  The one on the right, looks die cut but it is not. If you don't have a machine to use die cuts, just the stamps from this set will yeld fabulous results.  The tops are cut from gold foil.  I layered white over white on my card base, but matching up one of the colors used on the ornaments would have worked great for the base card.

I hope this gives you some ideas of your own, you will find the products below and clicking on any of them will take you to my store. Did I mention?  All you need for fabulous Christmas cards for this year is this one stamp set, so many ways to use them.

Thanks for stopping by.

Embellished Ornaments Clear-Mount Stamp Set - 139759

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Delicate Ornament Thinlits Dies - 139667

Price: $29.00

Embellished Ornaments Clear-Mount Bundle - 140857

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Stampin Up, Just playing with Christmas cards

It has been quite a long time since I've been able to just play at making cards without pain.  I sat down yesterday and did just that. Of course Christmas is coming and those of us that make our cards need to get an early start.

Since I am also a demo, I need to start even earlier. We started on our cards in class last month. Out of 3 cards, we just did one Christmas, this month, I am thinking maybe two.

I've had this set for quite a while new, but there was so many other challenges and a new annual catalog and Convention that I'm just now playing with it.  There is nothing I love more then die cut pieces with all kinds of detail like this one!

And the vellum Designer series paper underneath is to die for! So much prettier in person, it shines like crazy.

TIP: When attaching vellum try to find spots that will be covered like with ribbon or a candy dot, and use Glue dots. In this case besides behind the ribbon, I put them under the wider strips of red.

Here is a close up of the glimmer paper:

This set is gorgeous and comes in a bundle with the framelits, you will use it year after year.  I know I'm not going to be letting go of mine.

I hope I inspired you, and thank you for stopping by.

Embellished Ornaments Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$20.00

Embellished Ornaments Clear-Mount Bundle

$41.50

White Christmas Photopolymer Stamp Set

$16.00

Silver 5/8" Satin Ribbon

$7.00

Metallic Gold Baker's Twine

$3.50

Silver Glimmer Paper

$5.00

Holidays Fancy Foil Designer Vellum

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