These four elegant cards were made with the new Christmas paper line from Graphic 45, "The Night Before Christmas". I love holly, and this line has two styles of holly paper that are beautiful. The first card I designed I used an embossing folder onto ivory cardstock to emboss a design onto the left side only. I then cut with a craft knife, vertical slits at points slightly larger than than a thin rectangular die I was going to use to cut the frame. Cut a long slit connecting the two smaller slits, slide in the thin rectangular die face down, making sure the die was under the design, but on top of the paper to the right of the design. Then ran it thru my vagabond. I then trimmed out around my design, and adhered a gold frame under the window I created. Attach some chipboard scraps or foam squares under frame window, and attach to the cut out "merry & bright". Wrap some ribbon around it and make a bow, then I attached it all to the card.
Add a little lace, holly & pearls! You can add stickles to the flakes of snow in the image to make it sparkle.
I used the coordinating stamp set #1 for the greeting on this card. I stamped the greeting and embossed it in green embossing powder. I added the season's from another stamp set I owned. A button glue dotted on top of some ribbon pull it all together.
This card uses some paper that came from a vintage music book page, a doily from my Cheery Lynn Designs die, and a pine sprig from a Tim Holtz strip die.
More pine sprigs were used in this card along with the vintage Santa image from the above mentioned stamp set. I added a greeting from an older Hero Arts stamp set. I added a double bow and a Prima flower to finish it off.
Catch this class at a Chicagoland store this December!
Christmas tags will be showcased in my next few post! I have techniques to share.
Kim
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