Hello and welcome to my blog; it's only taken me all day to get my computer working were I could write today's blog post. Anyway I have a festive card to share with you today. And even better is it's easy to create. Which you all know is one thing that I think is a must for Christmas Cards. I also think it's never too early to start making them as well. And there are some great sets in the new 2021-2022 Annual Catalog as well as some festive Designer Series Paper as well. Here's a look at my card.
I wanted to create a card that was easily reproduced and easy for someone to do so. This card only takes a few pieces of cardstock and designer series paper. And some of them can even be scraps. I wanted to use the Tidings & Trimmings Bundle because it has a mixture of floral and the lovely star dies, so I thought they would make a wonderful card for the holidays.
Tidings & Trimmings Bundle:
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The Tidings & Trimmings Bundle includes both the Tidings & Trimmings Stamp Set and the Christmas Trimmings Dies. The Tidings and Trimmings Stamp Set will allow you to trim your holidays with cards, gift tags, and packaging you make yourself. Stamp the festive images and sentiments on cards and gift tags--they're perfectly sized to fit card fronts and packaging. Or add them to your scrapbook pages as you preserve your Christmas and New Year's memories. The Tidings & Trimmings stamp set contains 18 photopolymer stamps (the suggested clear blocks which are sold separately are: blocks a, c, & d). This is a Two-Step Stamp Set which allows you to be as festively creative as you want to be with your holiday cards.
The Christmas Trimmings Dies allows you to make quick work of cutting when you use the Christmas Trimmings Dies to create your holiday projects. You can cut stars, holly leaves and berries, bows, and more. There are 15 dies in the die set with the largest die measuring 2-7/8" (7.3 cm). The Christmas Trimming Dies work with the Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine or Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine so you can use both of your cutting machines to quickly make your projects.
Unraveled Elegance:
The most difficult part of this card is the fun unexpected use of the ribbon. That was the longest part about making this entire card. I love the texture that the mixture of designer series paper and the unraveled ribbon gives to the card. After unraveling the ribbon to create all the little threads I took a little of the Sahara Sand twine from the Baker's Twine Essentials Pack and tied it all up. I just held all the little threads with my tweezers and tied the twine around it.
I then added a little more lose texture with the baker's twine as well. I used my Take Your Pick Tool to pull out the edge of the ribbon and simply pulled the lose edge until it all came undone. Next I added it to the card front with some strong adhesive and placed the sentiment over it. The sentiment is held in place over the ribbon embellishment with a few Stampin' Dimensionals. I wanted the star and loose ribbon to be the focal point of the card so I didn't add any additional embellishments to the card.
Thanks for dropping by today, I hope that you have a wonderful day I hope that you find some ribbon or other fun embellishment to create a unique element for your projects and give it a try this week. If you need any of the supplies that you have seen today you can pick them up in my online store.
Happy Stampin'
Rick Adkins
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Tutorial Store. The June Creative Stampers Tutorial Bundle features 10 creatively fun projects using our favorite new products from the 2021-2022 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog
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Your card is beautiful, Rick. I just had to order the Tidings and Trimmings Bundle today! The lovely ribbon you unwound and then tied together with twine makes for the perfect accent.
ReplyDeleteLove your card. Unwinding the ribbon is a great idea! Ty
ReplyDeleteI really love the card. Thank you so much for the directions.
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