I found a different style of card on my travels round blogland and You Tube. It seems this style of card was popular a few years ago - so I thought I'd have another go at trying it out and I love it - I've done a few so far with different themes. I think it's known as an envelope card but I'm not sure.
I've done mine as Christmas cards as Christmas is on my mind at the moment and it's my most favourite type of card to make.
The papers I've used for my card are from Marianne Designs called Artic Winter - probably a few years old now. The Reindeer is from Stampin Up' Merry Patterns - now retired. I sponged the edges of the Very Vanilla cardstock with More Mustard (an old SU colour) and Early Espresso to give it a soft vintage look. I stamped the deer in Early Espresso and then coloured in his sweater with More Mustard and Night of Navy marker pens and then added some glitter.
The little snowflake was made using SU Seasonal Thinlets and the dazzling embellishments in that gorgeous gold are non SU. The Merry Christmas sentiment is also from an old Set and I've added a touch of More Mustard twine.
I'm adding this into the challenge over at Cards In Envy - they ask for your favourite Holiday cards - in the UK we don't know Christmas as the holidays and Hallowe'en is not considered a holiday over here and we don't have Thanksgiving - holidays to us are vacations to the US.
Here's another similar card but this was done with one of my favourite retired SU Sets for Christmas, Winter Post. I sponged the background and did some reflection inking for the trees from Winter Woods and the skaters. The papers are Artic Winter again and this time a slightly larger snowflake. I can see I will be making a few more of these type of cards.
The challenge over at CAS Colours and Sketches #294 this week is their Colour challenge and I loved this colours together. I knew straight away what set I wanted to use and it was Stampin Up's retired Merry Patterns and those gorgeous candles. When I first got this set I wasn't really that fussed on them but as soon as I started using them I fell in love with them. I thought they would be lovely for this challenge and give an alternative Christmas colour.
I used Very Vanilla for my card and card base and layered it with some Soft Suede cardstock. The candles were inked with the soft suede and then I used the Berry Burst for some of them. The others were inked with an old SU colour Regal Rose as I don't have Blushing Bride but I think it's very similar. I then simply added the sentiment in Soft Suede.
To stop the card being too flat - I re-inked another of the Regal Rose candles and then cut them out and placed them individually on some dimensionals to give the card a bit of depth.
A touch of Wink of Stella on the flames to make them glitter and the card is finished.
I adore these colours together and will be trying out some more cards.
I'm also including this in the challenge for Addicted to Stamps which is asking for a CAS card.
A new type of fold card from me today - I do like different folding cards. This one I think is called the flip fold card.
I've used a retired set from Stampin Up called Merry Patterns - at first I didn't like the little candles in this set but now I've started to ink them up I adore them. I love the way they are two set stamping sets and they make inking them up so easy - the colours I've used here are traditional Christmas (my favourite) of Cherry Cobbler and Always Artichoke. I've used More Mustard for the flames and a touch of Cherry Cobbler in the middle of the flame.
I used a retired SU embossing folder for the holly background and the holly cut outs are non SU - little dies I found in my local craft shop for 99p!! I added a touch of Cherry Cobbler cardstock behind the berries and added Wink of Stella to make them glisten.
The Sentiment on the front is from another retired set Warmth and Wonder and the sentiment inside is from an old Inkadinkado set. I've re stamped the candles inside - cause I love them!
I'm adding this into the following challenges:
TIME OUT #120 which is looking for Colour.
Addicted to Stamps #313 - Holiday
Tuesday Throwndown - Anything Goes
