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Holly Jolly Greetings

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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.

Stampin' Up! Holly Jolly Greetings and Christmas Greetings thinlits

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

Peaceful Pines

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The Paper Players challenge this week pretty much screams Christmas and even though I’m not really focused on Christmas Card making yet, I went for it anyway.

Stampin' Up! Holly Jolly Greetings and Peaceful Pines and Christmas Greetings Thinlits

Here’s the banner which inspired my card:

I started by stamping the speckles in cucumber crush onto the same coloured card using the Peaceful Pines set and then cut it out with the matching framelit. I couldn’t resist cutting out the holes using another of the framelits. I cut out another tree in red – and trimmed the edges – and layered it behind to see how it looked. I then stamped some ornaments in crushed curry on crushed curry card stock and cut them out (again with the same set of framelits) but I didn’t like how they looked on the tree. Still, I liked how they looked behind the tree. So the little ornaments were glued onto the tree’s back using the fine tip glue pen and then I attached the red tree on top of them. So, I had my tree. Then there was a fair bit of playing with different colours of cardstock and different orientations until I decided to cut out the merry with the Christmas Greetings Framelits in real red. Now I could see where I was going and I stuck down my tree using dimensionals. Rookie mistake! I tried to stamp the Christmas (from Holly Jolly Greetings) in cucumber crush using my stamp-a-ma-jig for placement and of course the raised tree meant that I stamped it wonky. After using a knife to remove my tree – and scrape off the remaining pieces of dimensionals, I started again. This time I decided on Christmas in real red and added the crushed curry stars (also from Holly Jolly Greetings) before gluing the tree back on – again with dimensionals. The fine tip glue pen made quick work of adhering the die cut merry and then all that was left was to put the very vanilla piece onto a real red cardbase. Another clean and simple card, my favourite!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Lighthearted Leaves and Holly Jolly Greetings

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I didn’t intend to make a Christmas card, but when looking for a sentiment to fill a corner, the JOY is what worked. So it became a joyful card and probably a Christmas one in very untraditional colours.

Stampin' Up! Lighthearted Leaves and Holly Jolly Greeting

I stamped the leaves from the Lighthearted Leaves set (one of my favourites currently) in the archival basic black ink – this great ink has meant that my previous favourite, memento ink, is gathering dust. I coloured in the leaves using Stampin’ Write markers in pear pizzazz and rich razzleberry. I didn’t colour perfectly, thinking that a little flash of white here and there made sense with the roughly drawn image. Something else was needed so I looked at a few sets for a small sentiment, Holly Jolly Greetings was on the table and JOY fit. I’ve stamped that in rich razzleberry.

A skinny mat of yet more rich razzleberry before mounting that on to a base of pear pizzazz and my clean and simple and, in my opinion, effective card is complete.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sleigh Ride Edgelits again

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I had a productive weekend and made cards for a couple of challenges. I suppose it’s fairly inevitable that there will be similarities since I’m not good at putting everything away after making the first card. So this card also uses the sleigh ride edgelits. It’s for the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge.

Stampin' Up! Sleigh Ride edgelits and holly jolly greetings and christmas greetings thinlits

And here’s the banner which inspired my card:

I actually already had the night of navy buildings cut out; I’d been toying with using them for my brother’s birthday card back in August and since I didn’t, they were on my pile of things to use later. I wanted to put gold foil behind the doors and windows and realised that I only needed to attach the foil enough that it didn’t move before I stuck down the night of navy piece. So there are little strips of gold foil which are a fair bit longer than necessary so that I could glue them in place far enough away from the openings such that I wouldn’t have to worry about glue showing. I then turned it over carefully and glued it down to the soft sky card base. I stamped the Christmas sentiment in night of navy – it’s from the Holly Jolly Greetings set. Then I cut out the merry from more gold foil using the Christmas Greetings Thinlits and stuck it down using the fine tip glue pen. It’s a lot easier to use this than anything I’ve tried previously.

See you tomorrow,

Liz