Happy Holidays in Blue...a Card

I've made a lot of cards lately in non traditional colors like pink.  Today's (in blue) is traditional I suppose but not the regular red and green.

This is an easy card to make and you can make it out of whatever colors you want.

Materials:

• two patterned papers
• white cardstock
• one embossing folder (preferably a word but can be a pattern)
• a sentiment
• an embellishment (I chose two holly leaves in light blue glitter paper and three red pony beads)

The first thing I did was emboss my word (or design on the right side of the card base.  I used some chalk ink to brush over top o my word so that it was more readable.

After the ink dried I took my two papers and using the paper tearing technique, added them to my card with glue stick.

I added my sentiment and embellishment at the bottom. Done!

Lis

Happy Holiday Deer, a Christmas Card

 

 

This is a fun card that I made using the Frantic Stamper Reindeer Duo.  I love this set for two reasons.  First, I love the horns!  They are curly and so cute!  Second, I love that there are two deer in this set: one standing and one jumping (perfect for Santa's sleigh!)I chose to use only the standing deer.

 

To make my card, I die cut my standing deer from silver glitter paper.  To get deer die cuts that face each other, I die cut one with the silver side touching the die, and the second with the back side of the paper touching my die.

 

 

I used some pretty background Christmas paper with holly on it. Did you notice the white sparkly torn paper at the bottom?  You know what that is? It's FUN FOAM!  You can get it at any craft store and they make it in sparkle colors.  I got a sheet of the white sparkle and tore it.  I layered one deer behind and one deer in front. (The one in front had to be adhered with two layers of mounting tape.)  I decided to use some silvery handmade paper at the bottom also.

 

I die cut a fun swirl out of blue glitter paper and added this to my card (before I added the deer).  I cut the Happy Holidays from gold foil card and glued it to my card front with glue stick.

 

The deer just make this card.  I can see them being used for any season and for masculine cards also.

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Lis