Hello there! Thank you for joining me today for Stampin’ Up! Only Challenge #316 where we have our usual December theme of Christmas and hope that you participate.
This challenge will last all month with the our first challenge of 2023 on January 3. I can’t believe 2023 is just around the corner. It’s so true as you age, time flies by. I’m going to be 60 mid-June, but still 45 in my head.
I used a lot of products from the Holiday Catalog for this Christmas card of 4 stamp sets, 4 sets of die-cuts, embossed and ink blended my own background pattern + fun embellishments. I love how all of our products coordinate and they’re intentionally designed to do so.
This really did not take long to make. I did re-cut the bow across the bottle from Real Red Glimmer Paper from the Sweetest Christmas Suite Collection. I had too much Cherry Cobbler clustered together. I simply adhered the Real Red bow over the Cherry Cobbler bow that looks so much better. Easy fix.
Gray Granite is a very overlooked color and I’ve been using it a lot lately. Gray Granite was used for my card base and sprigs on the ink blended + heat embossed panel.
As always, your shopping Supplies and Instructions, including measurements, are below.
When I layer up projects, I use different measurements from the usual for balance.
I started out with my Gray Granite card base and cut my stamped and embossed panel to size.
You want to use your Embossing Buddy on this panel because you are heat embossing with Versamark ink and powder. The Embossing Buddy + Versamark break up binding properties to keep the ink and powder together.
Using the large sprig from Decorated With Happiness on an E-Block, I stamped the Versamark ink around the lower left and up the left side. I heat embossed this with white powder.
I used a Blending Brush loaded up with Old Olive ink and started blending at the left corner on up for an ombre look. I used a Swiffer Cloth to wipe the ink off of the white embossed images.
I stamped the same image the rest of the way around with Gray Granite ink to create my own paper.
I wrapped a length of Real Red ribbon around the lower 1/3rd of the mat that was tied into a knot at the far right of the card.
This panel was adhered to the Gray Granite card base with Tear & Tape adhesive.
This is where I changed out my bow from Cherry Cobbler CS to Real Red Glimmer CS. With Glimmer CS, you have to use an Adhesive Sheet to adhere to the CS due to the properties on the back side of the Glimmer CS.
I wanted the card base mat to declare itself with the heat embossing and ink blending, and that’s how I came up with the image mat and image panel measurements.
I cut my image mat down to size from Perfectly Penciled DSP and cut the image panel from Basic White Regular CS.
The short bottle image from Vintage Christmas was stamped onto Basic White Regular CS with Cherry Cobbler ink and I used that as a guide where to stamp the leafy branch image from Sweetest Christmas Suite Collection onto the image panel with Old Olive ink. I stamped the small round Happy Holidays sentiment with Pool Party ink and then cut this from the smallest circle die-cut in Stylish Shapes.
The candy cane was stamped onto Basic White Regular CS with Cherry Cobbler ink and cut from their coordinating dies.
I cut a standalone twig branch from Sweetest Christmas Suite Collection from Pool Party CS.
The large bow is from Country Wreaths Dies that was cut from Real Red Glimmer Paper included in the suite collection.
For final assembly, I adhered the image mat to the DSP with Seal adhesive. The bottle was adhered with Stampin’ Dimensionals, leaving enough room to tuck the candy cane in that I cut in half. The red glitter bow was adhered with an Adhesive Sheet atop of the Cherry Cobbler CS bow that I had originally placed.
The circle sentiment in Pool Party was adhered with a Stampin’ Dimensional. To accentuate the Pool Party, I tucked the sprig in with liquid adhesive at the top left of the candy cane and adhered a small Pool Party Fine Sparkle Adhesive Backed Gem to the left of the bow.
Lastly, I tucked a charming little Flat Jingle Bell Trinket under the bottle at the top right using a Mini Glue Dot.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project and please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you for stopping by for a visit and have a great day!
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- Card base: A2 top-folding 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, Gray Granite CS.
- Embossed panel: 4-1/16 x 5-5/16, Basic White Regular CS.
- DSP mat: 3-1/4 x 4-1/4, Perfectly Penciled DSP.
- Image mat: 3 x 4, Basic White Regular CS.