If you’re looking for great projects for the holidays you’ve come to the right place! My Twelve Weeks of Christmas will bring you a project every Wednesday. I know, you’re thinking “What happened to Week 1 and Week 2?”. You didn’t miss them. I’ve created the projects but was a little delayed in posting them. Check back on Friday for Week 1 and Week 2.
Now, let’s get back to Week 3! I love plaid and I can’t pass up a red and black color combination. I saw a similar card online and knew I wanted to make it may own and this was it. In my first attempt, all of the ornaments were simply stamped on the Whisper White cardstock. On this, my second attempt, I popped up three of the ornaments with Stampin’ Dimensionals. It’s amazing what a difference it made to the look of the card. If I was going to take this card up one more level I would heat emboss the stamped ornaments with Clear Embossing Powder.
The die-cut scalloped rectangle gives the card a bit of class but if you don’t have the Stitched So Sweetly Dies you could easily just use a cut piece of Whisper White cardstock.
This card is really easy to recreate in any color combination just by choosing a different piece of designer series paper. Just choose your colors from the designer paper and go! Below you can see how this card looks in traditional Christmas colors.
In the above card I used the Heartwarming Hugs Designer Series Paper. This is the exact same card as above with only two changes: designer paper and ink color. So easy!
One of my favorite parts of the original project is the matching envelope liner. The envelope liner is what actually sold me on the Ornamental Envelopes Bundle! An envelope liner finishes off the project perfectly. Remember yesterday’s motto….”No Naked Envelopes”!
You can find the directions for this fun project here. Don’t forget to check back tomorrow for more tips on the Envelopes Dies and on Friday for Weeks 1 and 2 of the Twelve Weeks of Christmas!