Block Party Christmas
I am trying to get ready for my Christmas stamp a stack this weekend. I will offer five cards. Each card will be stamped two times. With me being sick last week and having to work on the Holiday Blitz before that, I am helplessly behind. And I have a hard time making super simple cards.
Here is what I came up with yesterday. My first card. Let me know if it’s too simple. As you can tell I am on a Riding Hood Red kick! LOL
The card base is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Riding Hood Red folded in half. I think for the SAS I will make it a horizontal folding cdard ( 4 1/4″ x 11″, folded in half) instead.
The card front was stamped with the big and small snowflake from the Holiday Collection stamp set Stampin’ Up! offers as a special right now.
The Whisper White cardstock measures 3 1/4″ x 3 1/2″ and is layered with a 1/4″ smaller piece of Ski Slope Designer Paper. The designer paper was paper pierced on three sides and all edges were sanded with a sanding block.
I inked part of the Christmas block from Block party up with the Riding Hood Red Stampin’ Spot that comes in the Holiday Collection kit, wiped away the ink from Seasons Greetings with a Q-tip and added Old Olive with a marker over that. I stamped it on a 2″ square of Whisper White cardstock and cut around it freehand. It was layered on a 2″ square of Chocolate Chip. Gold Cord was tied around the bottom. Then it was layered on an Old Olive Scallop Square that I formed out of four punch-outs made with the Scallop Square punch.
The small snowflake from Holiday Collection was stamped in Old Olive on Whisper White, punched out with the 3 /4″ circle punch, taped to the sentiment layers and a gold brad was added in it’s center. Alpine Ribbon was tied around the Designer Paper layers. Those were attached to the card base with dimensionals. The sentiment layers were attached with dimensionals on top of that.
Another way to create bigger scallop squares and rectangles without Nestabilities is today’s tutorial on Splitcoast. Mary Jo Albright shows us how to use the Scallop Edge Punch for that.