CHRISTMAS KICKSTART CHALLENGE

I just recently started following a fun challenge - Christmas Kickstart Challenge - although I have yet to actually enter it until now. This new challenge is #56 "Christmas Snippets". I have some old printed paper I've had in my stash for years. I bought it on a close-out at one of my favorite local craft stores (Scrappy Craft in Phoenix, OR) years ago and have never found a use for it. It was BasicGrey two-sided card stock "Jovial Nipping" and it's dated 2010. It occurred to me that I could fussy-cut packages from the face of the paper and use them on this year's group Christmas Card as "Christmas Snippets".

I ordered my holiday papers and matching envelopes this year from LCI Paper. The cardstock is their LCI Felt 100 lb. cover in Warm Cream with coordinating A2 envelope and 70 lb. text for the inside sentiment. The plaid lining for the coordinating envelope is American Crafts "The Color of Memories" that I found at Joanne's.

I started this card by heat-embossing Stampendous "Pirate Gold" on the face of a top-folded card with an Impression Obsession  D14802 and then blind-embossing a stitched rectangle around the sentiment. I then fussy-cut a couple of packages from the printed cardstock and gluing one down directly to the card and then layering a second one popped up slightly with some dimensional foam. I then threaded a needle with some gold thread and pierced the top corner of the rectangle and tied it off like a tag. I finished by adding a couple of gold star sequins. I printed a sentiment on matching text paper and added a third fussy-cut package and gold star inside. Very simple.

 

   

After the cost of mailing this year's Halloween cards I was determined to make sure my Thanksgiving and Christmas cards would be designed for standard first-class postage. These will do nicely.   

Christmas Kickstart Challenge: Christmas Kickstart Challenge #56 - Christmas Snippets

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