Stampin' Pals: Mix & Match Christmas Cards

Thursday, 17 September 2020

Mix & Match Christmas Cards

Last week I had a mammoth session die cutting a lot of these word dies from Peace & Joy Bundle, the Joy dies. This was because after adhering the self adhesive sheets to various different foils, glimmer paper and card, it made sense to make a few.

I like the way there are three choices of word, and you can use them singly, pair them up, or go for the lot! With the Peace cards below, you can see one with three layers on the right, and a pair together on the left. I'm differentiating between them by calling them the word, the shadow and the cloud.

Using strips of pattern paper was my other mission with this particular crafting session. You know when you're using 6" square paper to cut a card front, you always get about 2" left over on one side? Or in the case above, where I cut the papers in half at 3" to give samples to customers. There's nothing wrong with using that 3" strip as-is, but you can add another 1" strip for a different look too.

The metric measurement for the card front is 10.1cm by 14.3cm if you are using A4 card, but I score my card at 14.5cm and cut the 3cm sliver off, so that it is easier for me to read on the ruler, so 10cm by 14 cm for me. So when I was using the 3 DSP above, and they were a bit narrow for the card front, I used a scrap of embossed foil paper for decoration, and to fill the gap. On these cards, Gilded Gems draw attention to the metallic foil, and did you notice that it is just the word die cut and added to the labels.

Three cards, all with the sentiment 'Peace' and different second parts. Peace and Joy gives a number of choices of these secondary sentiments, and don't they look like the old-type labeler? This shows you three different examples of the dies beginning with three together, then two and finally a single word. Personally, I like them all.

Four Seasons Floral stamp set is in the 'Getting Started' brochure, a very reasonably priced photopolymer stamp (#152801 $24) which is a good one to practise colouring, as it is quite a small image. The top left image is a poinsettia, and matches with the Christmas paper included in the 'Flowers For Every Season' DSP. I really love the Stampin' Blends (alcohol markers) but you can use ink, pencil or Stampin' Write Markers too.

Here is an entirely different combination, the word on the cloud.

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You will be seeing a few more of these cards over the next few months, they've been fun to assemble.

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I'd love you to choose my online shop to purchase from, if you live in Australia and when you use the Host Code at check out, I will send you a gift. The items listed below were used in my projects above, and link to that item in my online shop.