Seasonal Frame Thinlits Archives

I had a couple of challenges noted down but when I came to make cards for them, amazingly, I combined them. I was planning to make a card for the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge which is to take any sketch challenge this year and make it Christmassy when I realized that the Pals colours this week were perfect for my card.

Here’s the sketch that I used (#119) and the colours from the Pals Paper Arts challenge:

The sun was shining so I took advantage to try to really show the gold foil off well. The word comes from the Seasonal Frame Thinlits dies which I cut out using the new precision base plate which really helps to get the word cut more cleanly and without little raised spots from the holes in the die. I stamped the present from the Peaceful Pines set in both cherry cobbler and mossy meadow as my three elements from the sketch. I did try every word die that I have over the presents to see which flowed the best – this time, I just held the dies over the card rather than cutting out every one! A mat of black set this panel off nicely before mounting on a cherry cobbler card base.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Thank you so much to the team at CAS Colours and Sketches for selecting my card as a weekly winner. And my sister’s too. What fun to win with my sister.

I’m having a hard time with the fact that it’s now December. I’m not even slightly prepared for this month. I have some Christmas cards created but am very happy that I have a few stamp a stacks coming up where I (and the other attendees) will get to create 9 cards. That should help. Now to prepare a gift list…

So it’s rather handy that this week’s inspiration from CanYouCaseIt is perfectly suited for a Christmas card – I love red and gold together.

Here’s the inspiration banner for this challenge

First I used the embossing buddy to prevent stray specks of powder sticking and then stamped the image from Jolly Christmas in versamark on very vanilla. After sprinkling on the gold embossing powder, I heated it. I love embossing. And since my style of card making is clean and simple, I don’t use it much. Except at Christmas. I therefore love making Christmas cards! I used the new precision base plate to cut out the falala using the Seasonal Frame Thinlits dies in real red. These come in a bundle but I really didn’t like the stamp set and couldn’t see using it, so I just bought the dies alone. And I haven’t regretted it.

I really appreciate how the new precision base plate makes cutting out the words much simpler – only one trip through the big shot and no markings on the word from the holes in the die where you push out the card from the die. Previously, I’d have to run it through the big shot numerous times and I’d end up with polka dots from the holes. I positioned the falala so that the reindeer is jumping over the word. I then attached my very vanilla piece to a real red card base.

I finished off the envelope by cutting out an envelope liner using the retired brights backgrounds DSP (nope, still haven’t got the new stack) and the envelope liners framelits.

See you tomorrow,

Liz