Sparkle of the Season Bundle Christmas Card + Masking Technique

Hello there! Thank you for joining me today for a Christmas card created with the fabulous Sparkle of the Season Bundle.

I featured this ever so versatile Bundle on Tuesday with an autumnal card and used the same sketch with changing out the colors and images for today’s Christmas card.

As always, your shopping Supplies and Instructions, including measurements, are below.

With these pictures, I was more so after the ambience, which I feel is imperative to any presentation.

I started out with an A2 Early Espresso card base. I cut a piece of Mossy Meadow CS and stamped on the fir image, also in Mossy Meadow for a tone-on-tone effect, from Sparkle of the Season using our Clear Block B at the top and bottom of the mat, then adhered this to the card base centered left and right, top to bottom, with full-size Black Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I cut a piece of Basic White Regular CS to 3-3/4 x 4-3/4. My Mossy Meadow fir-stamped accents were planned around my sentiment mat and panel. I cut the photopolymer stamp Merry Christmas sentiment from Sparkle of the Season in half so that it would fit inside of my chosen frame from Ornate Frames. I used this die to cut a piece of masking paper that I adhered to the image panel where I wanted the focus point. I inked up the fir image with Mossy Meadow using our Clear Block B and stamped the fir as shown.

I then stamped the sentiment onto Crumb Cake CS with Early Espresso ink and cut from the Ornate Frames Die. I added Tear & Tape to the back of the sentiment to adhere onto a piece of Gold Shimmer Vellum. I used a blade to notch and distress the vellum and adhered the sentiment to the image panel with Black Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Two large Gold Holly Leaves were adhered to the image panel with Mini Glue Dots with a bow tied in Linen Thread adhered to the center of the leaves with a glue dot.

The image panel was adhered to the Mossy Meadow mat with Black Stampin’ Dimensionals for even more dimension and texture.

For the inside of the card, I repeated what I did for the card front using a different sentiment with the small gold leaves and a large Basic Pearl, which I forgot to include in your shopping list.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Thank you for stopping by for a visit and have a great day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sparkle Of The Season Bundle (English) [156765] $45.75	Ornate Frames Dies [150664] $34.00	Gold Holly Leaves [156311] $7.50	Gold 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Shimmer Vellum [156471] $5.00
Linen Thread [104199] $5.00	Tasteful Textile 3 D Embossing Folder [152718] $9.00	Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin’ Pad [147111] $7.50	Early Espresso Classic Stampin’ Pad [147114] $7.50
Crumb Cake 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [120953] $8.75	Mossy Meadow 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [133676] $8.75	Early Espresso 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [119686] $8.75	Basic White 8 1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [159276] $9.75
Basic White Medium Envelopes [159236] $7.50	Clear Block B [117147] $6.00	Floral Grid Paper [150819] $11.75	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $5.25
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $4.00	Paper Snips [103579] $10.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $25.00	Simply Shammy [147042] $8.00
Stamparatus [146276] $49.00	Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $120.00	Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $60.00	Black Stampin’ Dimensionals Combo Pack [150893] $6.00
Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430] $4.00	Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals [144108] $4.00	Stampin’ Seal [152813] $8.00	Tear & Tape Adhesive [138995] $7.00

 

 

 

1. Card base: A2 top-folding 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, Early Espresso.
2. Image panel mat: 3-1/2 x 5, Mossy Meadow.
3. Image panel: 3-3/4 x 4-3/4, Basic White Regular.
4. Sentiment mat: 2-1/8 x 1-1/8, Gold Shimmer Vellum.