Sparkly Sequined Christmas Card

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. Do you remember when the flip sequins were on trend? It was 'ASMR' as my youngest would describe it. I bought a piece of that fabric to jazz up my son's shirt for Christmas about 7 years ago. Since then, the rest of the fabric has been boxed with the rest of my craft stash. Thankfully, the Inky Paws Challenge made me dig it up and use it on this card. 

The stamp I used is from Newton's Nook Newton's Stocking stamp set. I stamped the sock twice on scrap cardstock. I fussy cut the sock on one of the stamped images, and the trims on the other. On the sock piece, I traced this  with the wrong side up on the back of the sequin fabric. I cut this fabric following the outline. I cut the trims on white felt, using the cut out trims as guide in cutting. I adhered the trims to the sequined cut out using glue gun.

I stamped Newton on white cardstock. I colored him with my sister's cat, Bibi, in mind. I used Copic markers for coloring. I fussy cut the cat. For a fun twist, I cut off the hat from the cat. I replaced the Santa hat with a 3D Santa Hat adhesive. To make the cat cute and naughty looking, I tucked one of the ears inside the hat. I snipped one side of the hat to allow me tilt the hat on the cat's head. I used glue gun to adhere the Santa hat to the cat.

Now that the focal point is done, I created the background panel using Lawn Fawn patterned papers. I die cut the green paper using an Avery Elle die. The die poked holes on the die cut to which I stitched a green DMC Diamant metallic thread. The poked holes were accents only but it worked well with stitching. I love when I can stitch on a die cut! I layered this piece with a red patterned paper from the same paper pad. 

I trimmed a jade cardstock at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". I spritz this lightly (although I did the opposite) with water before embossing it with a 3D embossing folder by Simon Says Stamp. The water loosen the fibers of the paper preventing any cracking. Since I overdid my water, I had a bit of warping. Using a strong adhesive to adhere this to a note card will fix the warping.

I adhered the patterned papers to this panel. I adhered the focal point to the green patterned paper die cut. I added two layers of adhesive foam to the back of the cat and the tail to even out with the dimension of the sock and Santa hat. I used a glue gun to add adhere the sock and Santa Hat. 

As I have mentioned, I used a flip sequin fabric for the sock. Below is how the sock looks when the sequins are flipped.

 

Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

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Challenge #247~Holiday Sparkle & Shine #2