How are your Christmas cards coming? One of the things that I enjoy about blogging is that I am compelled to keep churning out cards, helping the stash to grow! By the time I need to mail them, I usually have a pretty good variety of cards ready to go. Today I'd like to share a card made with the Kim Hughes Heart Warmers set, along with some Basic Grey Wassail paper. I though that I'd also show a progression of piling on the details--we all like the details, right?
I started by choosing three different pieces of patterned paper and deciding upon a shorter flap on my card front so that I could showcase papers inside the card as well. I then stamped my focal image in Black Memento ink on white cardstock and colored it with the Copic markers shown below. In choosing markers, I let the patterned paper be my color guide.
Next I added some red Stickles to the heart image, as well as two strips of torn white cardstock to the bottom of the focal image as snow. I used a glue pen to add fine lines of glitter to the left edge of the trees as well as to the torn edges of the snow layer. A red rhinestone atop the main tree, along with some paper piercing to frame the image and separate it from the snow,finished my focal image.
For the inside of the card, I chose a lighter layer of patterned paper so that the sentiment (from Mona Lisa's Christmas Expressions set) would show up and so that I could sign out names legibly. Ribbon is SU Mellow Moss taffeta. It's a little difficult to tell from the angle of the photos, but the left edge of my card stops about 3/4" short of the right edge so that the focal image hangs over and leaves the layer of snowflake paper on the inside exposed.
Thank you for visiting today!
Debbie Olson, for the CLASSroom
