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Contemporary Christmas for the C4Guyz Challenge #286

Dec 14, 2021 | Cardz 4 Guyz | 1 comment

Contemporary Christmas
Welcome to the last Cardz 4 Guyz challenge for 2021.  Dawn chose Contemporary Christmas for this two week challenge..  When you are finished here, I hope you will hop over to the challenge blog to see what the design team created.  The team’s cards are fabulous examples of a wide variety of creativity and inspiration!

Here’s my contemporary Christmas card, CASE’d, with some changes, from Pinterest:


My contemporary Christmas card is actually CASE’d Marcia Woodring Eblen’s Pinterest post. I have searched my pins, and other Sweet Stockings pins and can’t find the original post. I did send Marcia a message through Pinterest, so I will be updating this post as soon as I get a response.

Here’s Marcia’s card:

Measurements:

  • The Cherry Cobbler base measures 5-1/2 inches by 8-1/2 inches, scored at 4-1/4 inches.
  • One of my new favorite color combinations is Cherry Cobbler and Pool Party. This great pattern comes from the Sweet Stockings DSP. It measures 4-1/8 inches by 5-3/8 inches.
  • I also cut a piece of the DSP to 2-1/2 inches by 6 inches for the envelope flap. Then, I punched a 1 inch circle for the envelope seal.
  • The white cardstock for the inside measures 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches.
  • I used scraps for the rest of the front of the card. You’d need Cherry Cobbler, Pool Party, and Basic White cardstock for the other pieces.

What I Did:

  • I fussy cut the cat from the Sweet Stockings DSP.
  • Then, I started to fussy cut those little round ornaments. After cutting two, I decided that I would much rather stamp, color, and crop the ornaments from the Whimsical Trees stamp set. Much easier! I used Cherry Cobbler, Pool Party, and Old Olive for the ornaments. The gold Wink of Stella pen worked wonderfully for the top part of the ornaments.
  • I cropped both layers of the tree using the Christmas Trees Dies, which are part of the Whimsy and Wonder suite. Multipurpose glue adhered these pieces together.
  • Then, I wrapped some of the gold trim (from the Simply Elegant Suite) around the tree.
  • HINT: It’s much easier to leave a length of trim on the left side of the tree and then use tear-and-tape on the back of the tree at the bottom, middle, and top. That way, as I wound the gold trim around the tree it would stick to the back.
  • I found it much easier to unravel the length of trim after I had it adhered to the back. It was easier when I used a piercing tool to carefully pull the threads apart.
  • I used dimensionals to pop up the tree and the cat.
  • Then I added the ornaments with just a dot of multipurpose adhesive and slipped the tops under the gold trim.
  • This sentiment on the front just happens to be one of my favorite “Merry Christmas” stamps, mainly because of the font. It can be found in the Perfectly Plaid stamp set. I stamped it with VersaMark on the Pool Party cardstock. Then I covered it with gold embossing powder and heat set it. After the cardstock cooled, I cropped it using a stitched rectangle die. Then, I trimmed the Cherry Cobbler mat to fit under the Pool Party sentiment block.
  • I didn’t use dimensionals under the sentiment block because I wanted it to tuck under the tree.
  • At this point, I thought I had finished. Then I decided that I needed to add some bling to the sentiment. I grabbed my Wonderful Gems in gold glitter and put two on the sentiment block. Of course, I couldn’t stop with just two, so I added three to the tree.
  • Since I’d already trimmed the DSP on the envelope and created the seal, I’d finished this coordinated card/envelope/seal set.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

Have a Peachy Day!

Sue

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Cute Christmas for MMM # 162

Nov 22, 2021 | Creative Creases, Make My Monday | 3 comments

Welcome to Make My Monday # 162!  Dawn is hosting this bi-weekly challenge and has chosen the theme of Cute Christmas.  When you are done here, I hope you will hop over to the blog and check out all the inspiration from the design team!

Here’s my fun fold card:

 

Basically, this is a smaller tent fold card inside a bottom flap card. I spent a bit of time on Pinterest looking for an easy fun fold card. when I found this one from Mary Deatherage at Stamps-n-Lingers. I followed all her directions for sizes and folds.

What I Did:

  • Mary’s videos are always filled with tips and this one is no exception because she shows how to make the beautiful hydrangea she used on the front.
  • For mine, all the DSP, with the exception of the Bumblebee 6×6 inch DSP on the front, comes from the Sweet Stockings 12 x 12 DSP (designer series paper). My favorite pattern from this pack has to be the Christmas lights pattern.
  • I cropped the golden retriever using the largest square die in the Stitched Shapes die set.
  • The sentiments both come from the Greatest Part of Christmas host set from last year. However, any fun sentiment you have would definitely work. For some strange and unknown reason, I didn’t get this whole suite, but I should’ve done so. I stamped both the front and inside sentiments in Cherry Cobbler.
  • I used a label die from the Painted Labels set to crop the front sentiment. It fit perfectly inside the label die and I thought it added a bit of fun.
  • The suite also contains a Pool Party striped grosgrain ribbon that I did purchase and wanted to use! I searched for the roll of ribbon and couldn’t find it so I went with the sheer Pool Party ribbon. Of course-, I found the roll of the striped ribbon as soon as I posted this card to the blog design team site. Of course that means I need to create a card with the grosgrain ribbon ASAP.

A Second Card:

Actually, as soon as I typed that last sentence I thought I should just make the card. So, in the middle of getting this post together, I stopped and made a tent card.

Here’s the tent card:

  • I used the same DSP patterns, and sentiments inside and out. The biggest difference is that I used the ribbon that is a part of this suite. I could’ve easily completed this card in 15 minutes if I didn’t have so much trouble with the ribbon. It took me longer to tie a decent bow than it did to put everything else together..
  • After I trimmed the DSP on the envelope flaps, and punched/XYRON-ed two DSP circles for seals, I’d finished this two card set of coordinated cards/envelopes/and seals.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Have a Peachy Day!

Sue

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