Amazingly this card isn’t for a challenge – although it was inspired by a card that I made for one – see it here. At the time, a friend of mine commented that she’d like to see it in red and it occurred to me that making one of the ornaments gold would be a good idea.

With this card, I had a large top layer and so could fit 7 of the ornaments – the ornaments are from the Stampin’ Up! Merry Mini punches. As before I lined up the edge of the punch with the edge of the previously punched ornament to give me a consistent space between ornaments. I then took a scrap of the gold foil paper and glued it in place onto the back of the whisper white card. I stamped the sentiment from the Sassy Salutations stamp set. I then popped up the top layer using stampin’ dimensionals.

A few days ago I made a blue and white Christmas card using the Stampin’ Up! merry mini punches. I bought these punches earlier in the year intending to make cards with a bunch of little trees. Finally I got around to it.

I used the same method as before – I punched out a tree in the middle of the piece of whisper white and then did the outside trees by putting the edge of the punch at the edge of the previously punched tree and punching again. I put a piece of gold foil paper under the last tree (yes, it really is gold although it looks brown in the photo). I then took the Merry & bright sentiment from the Good Greetings set and stamped that in the middle of the four green trees in garden green. The card didn’t look as balanced as I expected – I had thought that the gold tree would balance the sentiment so I added a rhinestone coloured with the medium cherry cobbler blendability.

To make the envelope coordinate, I ran it through the big shot with the flap in the On Point textured impressions embossing folder.

Here’s a better picture: