Hi everyone, in my ongoing quest to make a few last minute simple Christmas cards I wanted to use up some snippets, so I decided to stamp some small stitched squares of winter greenery, then mount them onto an embossed panel made from a larger snippet!
Here’s a picture of my snippets…
…and one of the cards I made.
I die cut a stitched rectangle of white card, then dry embossed it with an extremely old Cuttlebug embossing folder called ‘Holly Ribbons’. I die cut 3 small stitched squares, and stamped them with Lavinia Holly, Mistletoe and Star Pine in various shades of green VFC. I coloured the holly berries with red Signo pen topped with Sakura Stardust pen, the mistletoe berries with clear Stardust pen, and the Starpine with Wink of Stella. I edged both the stamped and embossed panels with blended Olive Elements ink, then added white Posca accents and faux snow spatter. I die cut a small stitched rectangle and stamped the sentiment, then assembled the card onto a dark green border and 7” x 5” card blank.
Stamps: Lavinia Holly, Mistletoe, Star Pine, Christmas Greetings;
Media: Lavinia Elements ink (Olive); Versafine Clair (Shady Lane, Grass Green, Rainforest, Nocturne); Signo Pen (Red); Sakura Stardust pens (red, clear); Wink of Stella (clear); Posca pen (white);
Tools: Hunky Dory Moonstone Duo- Stitched Square and Rectangle dies; Cuttlebug Holly Ribbons embossing folder.
Challenges I would like to enter:
As You Like It - Festive Creations (3rd entry)
Can You Handle the Pressure? - Anything Goes with option Celebrate Any Holiday
Cut It Up #345 - Oldie But a Goodie + Use a Die Cut
(My embossing folder is very old)
Krafty Chicks #799 - CAS
Little Red Wagon #838 - Christmas Card
Make My Monday #267 - A CAS Quickie Christmas Card (2nd entry)
Snippets Playground #521 - Use Snippets
Once I got going I actually made three cards - another very similar to the one above, plus a third using old designer paper instead of an embossing folder.
All supplies as above except for Lili if the Valley designer paper.
Challenges I would like to enter:
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Pick a Previous Colour Challenge
(I picked May 2025 - Red & Green)
Colourful Options (December) - Colour Mood Board (4th entry)
C.R.A.F.T. #770 - Christmas (2nd entry)
Die Cut Divas (December) - Christmas/Winter with a Die Cut (3rd entry)
Girlz Rebel #47 - Anything Goes
Love Those Pretty Papers (December) - Use Designer Paper
Pammie’s Inky Pinkies #2550 - Anything Goes
Simon Says (Monday) - Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays (2nd entry)
Word Art Wednesday #730/733 - Anything Goes
That’s all for today. Take care, and thanks for visiting,
Hugs,
8 comments:
Lovely festive cards with great embossed backgrounds.
Thanks for coming to play in the Snippets Playground. See you up in the treehouse shortly. xxx
This is such a lovely card, Pauline! I love how you used your snippets up. It always gives me such a sense of accomplishment when I do that in my craft room. I love the embossing on your card and how you shaded the edges in green. That really makes it stand out even more. Thanks so much for joining us at Word Art Wednesday for our big blog hop and prize giveaway. We always appreciate you!
That's a lovely embossing folder, and lovely designs! Thanks for joining us at Die Cut Divas!
Oh Pauline, GREAT JOB! These are just perfect and a fun way to use up those snippets! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at the Sisterhood of Crafters, CYHTP & LTPP challenges! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Sisterhood of Crafters Owner
Can You Handle the Pressure Co-Owner
Love Those Pretty Papers Co-Owner
Love all the greenery snippets and embossed and pretty paper backgrounds.
Carol x
A beautiful way to use those 'snippets' All are so pretty!!
Thank you for joining our challenge at Colorful Options, The Sisterhood of Crafters, Can You Handle The Pressure, and Love Those Pretty Papers!
Diane CO, TSH DT and CYHTP, LTPP Co-Owner
{Nellies Nest}
{Colorful Options}
Great use of some of your snippets for these lovely cards. I especially like the embossing folder and the way you've used designer paper in much the same style
A beautifully designed set of cards Pauline, lovely foliage stamps and a great layout. The DP is really pretty but my favourite is the embossed one.
xx
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