Well hellooooo!   A large craft event  I had planned on attending today was cancelled last minute - and its too bad for all different reasons, as I could of had a World Card Making Class after all - better luck next year! So I put my new found time to making a more elaborate card  for today!!!




Here is my card featuring a bunch of techniques!

I went over to my Big Shot with some Whisper White cardstock, and using our Scallop Circle Bigz Die - I made the large circle and then embossed it with a snowflake Textured Embossing Folder. Next, I cut out the house - free style - with my craft knife!  To back the house, using our regular Wheel Handle I rolled some musical notes onto kraft paper using Early Espresso Ink... and  used the left-over scraps for the crimped corners! Next I punched out in glittery red and white, a couple of  hearts using 2 separate Heart punches. 

Naturally I distressed the edges of the scalloped circle - first with a smidge of blue ink, followed by the brown ink. Now - to pull it together!

I decided a band behind the scallop circle would 'ground' it better onto the card face!  So I made a bit of a complicated border band!  First I cut a wide band of Whisper White cardstock - about 3 x 8-1/2 inches and  using a border punch, punched out both sides of the banner - THEN - and this is where I had to make life a little difficult - I used our Scoring Tool and created a diagonal 'trellis' by scoring the paper and then "cutting " out the spaces inbetween - not all - but a fair amount of them! Whew!  But I am not done!

To give the card a boost of colour to balance all the red, white and natural kraft tones - I threw in a band of Marina Mist which I scored, and folded accordian style. That was pretty easy, and I glued it onto the red cardstock base making sure it stood nice and stiff because I want  it to support the scallop circle centerpiece  - creating some interesting depth!  Now that is a fair amount of techniques, wouldn't you say? 

So there you have it - a nicely done card for the holidays!  I did a card similar to this awhile ago - and so I just re-visited the theme with tiny adjustments.  That is always nice when you do not have to dream up a whole new idea - just re-work an oldie but a goodie!!!!   

NOW WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY FOR WORLD CARD MAKING DAY????  

 

LOOK!  How cool is this to make!   

Purses begin with the CUPCAKE PUNCH {the bottom half!} and then  two of our smaller CIRCLE PUNCHES for the top and the handle of the purse - neat!

Back your purses with layers - use a textured backgrounds, a border of SCALLOPS [another of our punches], pop the purses with some dimensional glue dots, a wee bit of ribbon - voila!    What a smart card - can you imagine these using a FLORAL Designer Paper?   

Have fun with it!

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Here is another version using the lovely Brocade stamp (scrolls) and pairing it with the Ornament punch and Delightful Decorations stamps from our Mini-Holiday Catalogue.  Its just a nice combination and I am seeing it around the internet...as well as here is another snowglobe version which I showed earlier .......both of .these nice cards are from mu upline, Caroline's blog.

My earlier posts: Brocade and Ornament

PolarBear Snowglobe

Good Morning!

'Fundalicious' 6 in. scrapbook layout!

Candy Lane Designer Papers

Love this because:

- small size is cute

- secret spot for journalling {or hiding unsightly handwriting}

- circles are easy with Circle Scissors Plus

- 30 min project!

The ' girlz ' last night all made a slightly different layout - still easy to do with this size!

Great fun for embellish-ing - it all looks good!

[all supplies Stampin' Up!]