Holiday Card using Print & Cut design by White Spruce Studio

 Hi there friends!

I quite often color images for my cards but not every likes to color or feel they don't have good coloring skills. Some of the time I just want to focus on other features of the card. Here I am using a printed focal design and building a card around it. 

 

General Supplies, more specific list is at bottom:

• Digital design
• printer
• electronic cutting machine such as a Cricut or Silhouette Cameo
• Card panel size 4 x 5.5 inch in red
• A2 card base in dark green
• 3" circle cutting die or cut with your electronic cutting machine 
• Christmas embossing folder 
• gold metallic ink
• inking sponge 
• glue pen
• glitter 
• adhesive foam
• sequins or gems 
• Christmas floral die or design for cutting machine
• liquid glue
•  white card panel 5 x 3.75
• green ink
• small blending brush 

Instruction: 

1. Download and unzip the file. 
2. Bring the design into your cutting machine's software. Size as desired. Mine is 2.75" tall. 
3. Using your machine's Print and Cut feature. Print the design and then cut it.  Set aside.
4.  Cut a 3" circle out of card panel about 0.75 inch from top. Use a die or your electronic cutting machine.
   
   
   
5. Using an embossing folder, embossing a holiday design onto the card panel.
   
   
   
6.  Apply gold metallic ink to the raised part of the embossed card panel.
   
   
   
7. Apply liquid glue with a glue pen around the perimeter of the cut out circle. Sprinkle glitter onto the glue. 
   
   
   
8. Adhere the panel to the card base. 
9. Using adhesive foam to add dimension, attach the printed design to the center of the circle. 
   
   
   
10. Add three sequins or gems around the design and in the circle. 
11. Cut some holiday greenery and florals. I used a die set but digital files for your cutting machine will work too. 
12. Assemble and adhere adjacent to the circle. 
13. If desired, add some shading with green ink and a small blending brush.
    
    
     
14. Use Pops of Color for flower centers, if desired. 
    
    
    
15. Adhere white panel to the inside of the card. Add a sentiment of your choice

 

~Paula

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Please Note: I am a big advocate of using supplies you already own but I understand that readers might be interested in specific products that they might not already own. This post contains product links so you can easily find any supplies and/or tools you may be interested in. As an affiliate, I may be compensated for a purchase made using my links. However, no additional cost is extended to you. The other links are just to help guide you in the right direction. I am not affiliated with all companies but I encourage you to shop small businesses as much as possible. I may even include eBay listings for products that are available there at the time this is posted. I only share product information of products I am familiar with and use in my own studio. Papers are just from my collection. I always grab from my scraps first and I don’t keep track of where they came from. Use what you have!

CRAFT Challenge Blog #787

 Hi there friends!

Here I am with the latest CRAFT Challenge Blog and the theme this time is Christmas. 

 The sponsor this week is Marchhare Cards. 

I colored the presents with alcohol markers and mounted them on a patterned cardstock using adhesive foam. I added a stamp that says 💓 Santa with embossing powder in white.

~Paula

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Please Note: I am a big advocate of using supplies you already own but I understand that readers might be interested in specific products that they might not already own. This post contains product links so you can easily find any supplies and/or tools you may be interested in. As an affiliate, I may be compensated for a purchase made using my links. However, no additional cost is extended to you. The other links are just to help guide you in the right direction. I am not affiliated with all companies but I encourage you to shop small businesses as much as possible. I may even include eBay listings for products that are available there at the time this is posted. I only share product information of products I am familiar with and use in my own studio. Papers are just from my collection. I always grab from my scraps first and I don’t keep track of where they came from. Use what you have!

 

 

Christmas in July with CRAFT Challenge Blog #785

 Hi there friends!

Here I am carrying on with Christmas in July. It's been a busy month so I have found I just cannot get one done every single day. It's okay because I actually try to make one holiday card every week and have for many years so they are all done by the time I need to mail them. 

Today's card is for the CRAFT Challenge Blog current challenge which has the theme of Christmas. The sponsor I am using is Sheepski Designs. 

 The image is colored with alcohol makers. The background is from an embossing folder inked up with green ink with a darker green added to the raised image of branches. The sentiment is cut from a tie and what I always say when my kitties take interest in the Christmas tree.

 

~Paula

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Please Note: I am a big advocate of using supplies you already own but I understand that readers might be interested in specific products that they might not already own. This post contains product links so you can easily find any supplies and/or tools you may be interested in. As an affiliate, I may be compensated for a purchase made using my links. However, no additional cost is extended to you. The other links are just to help guide you in the right direction. I am not affiliated with all companies but I encourage you to shop small businesses as much as possible. I may even include eBay listings for products that are available there at the time this is posted. I only share product information of products I am familiar with and use in my own studio. Papers are just from my collection. I always grab from my scraps first and I don’t keep track of where they came from. Use what you have!