I really like the idea of the Merry Monday challenge – it’s always about making Christmas cards. All year long. The idea being that by the time Christmas comes, you’re in really good shape. It’s a shame that I only found this recently! Here’s the challenge:

My favourite ornaments are, sadly, retired – the Ornament Keepsakes set. Having worn grey to school for about seven years, I still hate it so I was happy to see that I could use silver.

I stamped the ornament three times in versamark on night of navy and then sprinkled the silver embossing powder. After using the heat tool to make the ornaments look magical, I cut them out using the coordinating dies. So much easier than using scissors! I then used the sentiment from Sassy Salutations on the bottom of the card, again using the silver embossing powder. I popped up the ornaments using dimensionals and, with the help of my trusty ruler, placed the two outside ornaments at a quarter inch from the edge. After this I lined up the bottom points of the ornaments using a clear block to help me position the middle ornament – the ruler was also handy here to ensure that the distance between the ornaments was consistent.

I had originally intended to put ribbon on the card to give the look of the ornaments hanging but in the end it was too much. I like the clean look of this much better. I matted the card in the brushed silver cardstock and used a night of navy card base.