Hello! Welcome back to my blog. It is that time of the year again. Time to create cards for the season. When I am asked to make Christmas cards, I look into blog challenges for some inspiration and motivation. This card is a product of that.
The products I used on this card are from my craft stash. The sentiment and the snowflakes are from a retired Honey Bee stamp set. The rectangle stitch dies and embossing folder are from Simon Says Stamp. These two products are still available.
I partially inked the sentiment to create a transition of colors from red to green to blue. I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide for the ink. I embossed the sentiment using a clear embossing powder. The snowflakes were stamped with gold pigment and dye inks. I also inked the snowflakes with the colors of the sentiment but doing second generation stamping to make the color more subtle. I stamped on a cream colored cardstock.
After doing all the stamping on the panel, I was not too keen with how it looked. I was torned between re-dong the panel or fussy cutting the sentiment. I put this aside and worked on something else. The distraction was good for it made me appreciate the panel. It saved me from extra work of starting all over again.
I die cut the panel using the nesting stitched rectangle dies. I created a frame using these nesting rectangles. For the background panel, I trimmed a red cardstock at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". I embossed this with a 3D snowflake embossing folder. I lightly swiped a red interference ink over the embossed details of this panel.
To add some fun to this somewhat boring card, I added a pop-up mechanism to the back of the sentiment panel using cardstock.
The sentiment panel will be flat on the card panel but pops up after pulling it out of the envelope.
I hope you like today's card. Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!
Maria Giselle B.
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