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Jingle All The Way

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Happy Thanksgiving to anyone who is celebrating it today although I’m sharing a Christmas card today! However I am thankful to my sister for bringing this card with her earlier this month because I then had her show me how she made it. I changed it a little by refusing to add glitter. If you want to see her version, here’s the link.

Stampin' Up! Jingle All the Way and Sleigh Ride Edgelits dies

First we made the background by sponging blushing bride onto whisper white going up about a third of the way up the card. Then we added lost lagoon and finally night of navy. We then used a water spritzer and sprayed the card a couple of times to get the starry effect. If you wanted more, you could wet your fingers and flick more water at the card, but I stopped with a couple of spritzes. We put the background aside to dry, weighed down with the wooden stamp set. Then we cut out the trees in both whisper white and night of navy. Caro had already cut the card to the appropriate heights – the night of navy is shorter than the whisper white. I love how the sentiments in Jingle all the way match with the curve of the Sleigh Ride edgelits and picked silent night this time. After that it was a matter of constructing the card. I lined the envelope using the regals designer series paper and the envelope liners framelits.

Caro has made a dozen or so of these and says that they are all different which I can easily believe. The three that Caro, Julia and I made at the crop were all different.

It’s been quite a rough year but of course there have also been a lot of things about which to be grateful and today is a good day to reflect on them. I was extremely lucky to be able to spend about 8 weeks in Spain at the beginning of the year when I was between jobs. I met some great people and learned some Spanish and had a really wonderful time. I know that a lot of people wouldn’t have had that option. I’m grateful that I found a new job and one that I really like – especially with the short commute – where the people are great and were tremendously kind when my mother died. I’m also thankful that the interviewer I feared the most (due to it being on the phone which I do not like, thankfully there was only one of those) has become a good friend of mine. I’m thankful that I can still run after dropping a sushi knife on my foot. It could have been much worse than tendon surgery. And I’m very thankful that I have found card making. Playing with ink and card and stamps (and writing about it) is tremendously satisfying. I never imagined that I was at all creative and exploring this creative side is exciting.

I’m also thankful that I finally got my online shop working along with the scrolling list of products that you’d need to create this card.

So what are you thankful for today?

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sleigh Ride Edgelits

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I really love the Sleigh Ride Edgelits and how the new precision base plate makes cutting out the intricate shapes much easier. That isn’t to say that I don’t spend some quality time with my paper piercing tool cleaning up a few wisps of card though! Clearly the inspiration for this card came from my tags that I shared on Sunday.

Stampin' Up! Sleigh Ride Edgelits and Softly Falling TIEF and Jingle all the Way

I have a feeling that I will be making quite a few of these cards this year. Trust me when I say that it’s even better in person, the gold against the green is lush. I started with a piece of ordinary whisper white which I ran through the big shot in the Softly Falling embossing folder and then cut out the trees in mossy meadow using the Sleigh Ride Edgelits. After cleaning up the edges a little and using the embossing buddy, I stamped the sentiment from Jingle All the Way in versamark. A quick sprinkle of the gold embossing powder and use of the heat tool produced what I think is the perfect sentiment. Next I glued the whisper white panel to a card base in mossy meadow and then popped the mossy meadow tree piece up on stampin’ dimensionals. I cut little fragments of dimensionals from the edge pieces to pop up the trees. The envelope is lined in last year’s Backgrounds DSP cut out using the Envelope liner framelits.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sleigh Ride Edgelits CAS

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I thought I’d change things up a bit today and not use the Blissful Bouquet stamp set! This is a clean and simple Christmas card using the awesome Sleigh Ride Edgelits.

Stampin' Up! Sleigh Ride Edgelits

I cut out the santa and his sleigh in regular whisper white card stock and trimmed it so that it fit on the night of navy cardbase leaving the size border that I liked. Before gluing it to the cardbase, I used real red ink and a sentiment from Jingle All the way which is curved to match the curve of the edgelits. I love the coordination! So after the stamping – just in case of errors – I glued the whisper white piece to the card base.

I then took the snowflake stamp from the Wonderland set and stamped it four or five times across the sky in a now retired silver ink, changing the orientation of the stamp each time. I lined the envelope using some retired backgrounds DSP and the envelope liner framelits.

I think it would also be fun to do this with silver embossing powder but I was creating a simple card for a card class. Actually one of my friends happened to see this card and has decided that she wants to make a stack to send as Christmas cards. That’s a pretty great compliment.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sleigh Ride

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Many thanks to LeAnne for selecting my card as A Cut Above at the Paper Players this week; it’s an honour to be chosen. Challenges are so much fun – I’d never have made that card without the colour challenge.

Today’s card was also for a challenge – and I held up my blog entry yesterday trying to get the card finished so that I could enter it in the Global Design Project‘s sketch challenge. Sadly I didn’t manage to complete my card until after the challenge link was closed. However, today I finished two cards inspired by the challenge.

Stampin' Up! Jingle all the way and Season of Cheer DSP and Sleigh Ride framelits dies

I actually cut a piece of the Season of Cheer DSP and whisper white card at the same time with the Sleigh Ride Edgelits dies thinking to match up the curves. This didn’t work so well after I punched out the little pieces between the horses legs and the sleigh. Now I was left with missing blue for the background. This is really what sparked making two cards! I stamped the sentiment from Jingle all the Way in real red – I’d left just enough of the curve to match the curved sentiment. I then cut another piece of the DSP and mounted the whisper white on it. The night of navy mat is just 1/8 inch larger giving a skinny border before mounting this onto the new (to me) heavy weight whisper white card stock. It’s much more sturdy than the regular card stock.

As you can see, I used the envelope liner framelits and more of the Season of Cheer DSP to line the envelope. I do like to have them match the card.

See you tomorrow,

Liz