There’s a great challenge on a the Paper Players this week – a CAS Christmas card, of which I’ve made a number of lately.

I made this at the crop that I attended recently and the card all started with the red enamel dot. I was determined to actually use one. My fellow stampers were all waiting for me to announce that I was going to put the dot back in the package, (and I may have threatened it!) but I persevered. I first tried stamping a deer image and using the dot as the nose, but it was too big. I’m happy about that because I really like how this one came out. I heat embossed the snowflake from Holly Jolly Greetings using gold embossing powder on very vanilla (don’t forget the embossing buddy!). The new precision plate made quick work of cutting out the merry from Christmas greetings thinlits in gold foil. I used my pick me up tool to help position the enamel dot exactly where I wanted it. The tool has something like blu-tak in it so it holds onto embellishments but not so hard that you struggle to get it to let go. Perfect for this use.

I then mounted the very vanilla onto a real red card base and finished off the card by making the envelope coordinate. I’m still working my way through my retired backgrounds DSP, cutting out the liner with the Envelope Liners framelits. These are definitely my most used framelits since they are used on almost every card.

My Paper Pumpkin arrived yesterday. 🙂 I got a nice surprise when I emptied the mailbox around 9pm. I’m hoping to play with it tonight.

See you tomorrow,

Liz