Sunday, October 24, 2021

October 2021 Blog2-Merry Christmas Card



         Happy Fall Ya'll! It is still nice here in Aztec, NM. Today the weather is around 70 degrees. I'm not complaining, I'm not a fan of winter. I love sitting in a chair, drinking coffee and watching it snow. I hate driving in it. 
    
       Can you believe we are going to blink and Christmas will be here? Have you started your Christmas shopping?

        I must say this is not my favorite card but I put a lot of work into it and decided to put on my blog anyway. I have noticed that even if it is not your favorite cards, someone else is going to love it. 

        Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my latest blog. Until next time have a great day and I hope you enjoy making this card. 

        I want to have apologize if the instructions are not clear. I had a hard time discribbing two step stamping. 

        If you are looking for a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, I hope you will consider me. You can clink on to the shopping link and it will take you to my shopping website.

Card Base: Evening Evergreen, 8 ½” x 5 ½” scored at 4 ¼”

Card Stock: Shimmery White, 4” x 5 ¼”, Scrape Shimmery White for label

Specialty Paper: Cork cut into three strips, ¾” x 4”, ¾” x 4 ¼” and ¾” x 3 ¾”

Instructions:

1.     Fold Evening Evergreen card base in half and burnish. Fold will be on the left.

2.     Randomly stamp leaves onto card front using Evening Evergreen Ink.

3.     Sponge strip edges using Soft Suede Ink. Adhere Cork strips to card front using Stampin’ Seal adhesive.

4.     Cut out largest label die from Seasonal labels dies using Shimmery White card stock.

5.     Stamp leaves (as show in card photos) using Christmas Season stamp set and Soft Succulent ink onto the bottom right-hand corner of 4” x 5 ¼” piece of Shimmery White card stock (inside of card). Stamp a leaf onto each side of the label.

6.     Using Shaded Spruce ink stamp pine boughs (stamp off on scrape piece of paper first for a lighter shade of Shaded Spruce) onto the bottom right-hand corner of Shimmery White card stock. Now stamp four pine boughs using the stamp off technique onto the label.

7.     Stamp one small pinecone base using Crumb Cake Ink (stamp off on scratch paper first) in the bottom right-hand corner of the Shimmery White card stock (this is a two-step stamp set). Stamp one small pinecone base in each corner of the label using the same technique. Using Soft Suede stamp the top of the pinecone onto each pinecone.

8.     Now stamp small -rounded leaves onto the Shimmery White card stock and the label using BumbleBee Ink.

9.     Using Poppy Parade Ink, stamp Merry Christmas and random berries onto the Shimmery White card stock.

10. Using Poppy Parade Ink, stamp sentiment onto the label and random berries.

11.Place dimensionals onto the back of the label and adhere, centered, onto the card front.

12.Tie a bow using Cherry Cobbler & Gold Ribbon, adhere at the bottom of the label using Mini Glue Dots.

          13.Adhere Shimmery White card stock into the inside of the card         with Stampin’ Seal. 

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