Here is the last, and most time intensive card, from my Stamp a Stack last Saturday. I think this might be my Christmas card to send to my family. We painted our door on our house in San Antonio red. I loved that red door, and the house…and living in that glorious city (sigh….can you tell I miss Texas?).
The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Real Red cardstock folded in half. It’s followed by a 4″ square of Chocolate Chip and a 3 3/4″ square of the Ski Slope Designer Paper.
A 3″ x 3 3/4″ strip was scalloped on one of the long ends with the Scallop Edge Punch and adhered to the Ski Slope Designer Paper. 5/8″ wide Red Grosgrain ribbon was tied around the Chocolate/Designer Paper layers, before those were adhered to the card base.
The house from the beautiful To You & Yours set was stamped in Chocolate Chip Craft ink on a 2″ x 2 3/4″ piece of Shimmery White cardstock. After it dried it was colored with Aqua Painter and Classic inks (Old Olive, Real Red and Baja Breeze). It was layered on a 1/4″ bigger piece of Kiwi Kiss cardstock and the edges were paper pierced. The layers were attached to the card base with dimensionals.
The sentiment from the same set was stamped in Chocolate Chip classic ink on Shimmery White cardstock and punched out with the 1″ circle punch. A 1/2″ Kiwi Kiss circle was taped to the top, overhanging a little. The overhang was cut off and a 1/4″ Chocolate Circle was added on top of the Kiwi. Then the triple circle was taped to a 1 1/4″ Baja Breeze circle. I underlined the sentiment with a paper pierced row and pierced a hole in the center of the Chocolate circle to tie the sentiment to the ribbon with Gold Cord. A dimensional keeps the sentiment in place.
Last I added Dazzling Diamond Glitter with Liquid Glue. I know it’s retired (what was SU thinking?), but it’s my favorite glue to add Glitter to images. It dries pretty quickly and dries raised, giving your image a 3D aspect. Plus….it really holds that Glitter in place. I don’t like loose glitter.
On the inside of the card I first taped a 4″ square of Whisper White cardstock.
A 1 1/2″ x 4″ piece of Chocolate Chip had one edge punched with the Scallop Edge Punch. It was adhered to the lower part of the white square. A 1″ x 4″ strip of Ski Slope Designer paper over the scalloped layer finishes the inside off.