Monday, 17 July 2017

Happy Christmas

I made this card for the Dies R Us 'Use a Die Cut Sentiment as the Focus' challenge.  As I'm on a mission to use my snippets mountain, I'm heading to the playground at Pixie's Crafty Workshop.  I'm also entering Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 'Use a Die Cut', Crafty Cardmakers 'Lots of Layers', ABC Christmas Challenge 'O for Old' (I used old dies and papers), Die Cut Divas 'Christmas in July' and Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge 'Anything Christmas Goes'.


Card blank: 7" x 5" white silk tent fold
Dies: Creative Expressions 'Contemporary Happy Christmas', Spellbinders Nestabilities 'Classic Ovals Large' and 'Lacey Ovals'
Embossing: Crafts-Too 'Twinkle' embossing folder
Snippets: Gold pearlescent and whilte silk card, patterned paper

I trimmed the paper, layered it onto gold card and attached it to the card front.  I die cut a Lacey Oval and sentiment from gold card and set them aside.  I die cut an oval from white card and then die cut the sentiment from the centre.  I attached double sided tape to the rear of the oval and inlaid the sentiment before embossing it with the Twinkle folder.  The sentiment was layered onto the Lacey Oval and attached to the centre of the card.

Kath x

22 comments:

laurie said...

So elegant! Love the touch of gold. Thanks for joining us at Dies R Us!

Sue said...

Kath, Nice card.

Hope you've had a good day. Sue

meg said...

Beautiful card Kath, love the inset greeting, simple and elegant

Maria said...

Oh, just gorgeous! Such a lovely Christmas card! Thanks so much for joining us at Dies R Us for the challenge this month!

Pat said...

A very pretty card Kath and the central gold loopy oval sentiment mat looks great with the wonderful white embossing and a good sized sentiment in the gold to match. x

Unknown said...

This is a gorgeous, decadent card!

Thank you for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers

June/DT

Liz said...

Gorgeous card, Kath, so classy in the colours you've used. I love the embossing folder you've used too. xx

Michelle N. said...

This is beautiful! Love the papers and goodies you've used-thanks for joining us at Die Cut Diva's this moth!

Arlene said...

Lovely card. Simple and dramatic. Om my gosh. How perfect - a tree card, literally. Love it. So glad you joined us at Die Cut Divas.

Sue's Crafty Corner said...

A wonderful card Kath your Happy Christmas looks like its hanging on the bottom of the wreath.

Sue xx

Di said...

Beautiful card Kath - as Len would say, shop bought elegance! And that's a compliment from him - beautiful die as well.

Hugs

Di xx

Claire said...

Lovely card, I love the little embossed stars behind the sentiment - nice touch x

Maikreations said...

Lovely card - I really like the inlaid-look ;o) Thank you for playing along with our "Lots of Layers" challenge at the Crafty Cardmakers! Have a great day and happy crafting,
Maike ;o)

Darlene said...

Great idea to inlay ... looks AWESOME! Thanks so much for playing in our ‘Die Cut Sentiment as Focus’ challenge at Dies R Us! Please come back again soon!

Darlene (DRU Blog Leader)
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cotnob said...

A beautiful card Kath, fabulous papers and I love your die cut sentiment - you have added lots of details to a quite simple design.
Pauline - Crafting with Cotnob
x

Josephine said...

Lovely - and such a gorgeous background.

Thanks for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers!

Barb said...

A lovely card Kath. I really like the embossing behind the sentiment. Barbxx

Hazel said...

Thanks for entering your lovely crafting for CHNC challenge 342 – you could also enter this into my CHNC challenge extra for July - I'd love to see it there too x

MagsB said...

This is such a sophisticated, elegant Christmas card, Kath! Thanks for joining in at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge and I apologise for the late comment.

love Mags B x

Judy McKay said...

Pretty layered Christmas card Kath. Pretty card. Thank you for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers this week Judy DT

Helen said...

Wonderful card!
Thanks for playing at the ABC Christmas Challenge!
Helen x

Carissa Harper said...

Lovely card. Thanks for playing along at the ABC Christmas Challenge.
Carissa