I cleaned out my Christmas scraps box yesterday, mostly for the purpose of re-acquainting myself with what was hiding there. In the process, I promised myself to make all of my Christmas cards this year out of bits and pieces to see how much I could get rid of before I buy any more paper anytime soon. I was also in search of some ideas for the current Freshly Made Sketches.
I definitely took liberties with Linda's current layout, which features three staggered rectangles and the sentiment running along below. I have these accordion-folded foil laser-cut villages that have been with my scraps for quite some time now. I used some last year on this card, but still have several of them left. I cut the buildings apart into similar-sized rectangular pieces and backed them with black card stock for the windows and door openings. I die cut a scrap of gray printed swirl paper with a stitched rectangular die and attached it to a black card base. I gold heat-embossed the sentiment on a scrap of black card stock and trimmed it with a smaller stitched rectangle, attached it to the face of the card, glued on two of the buildings and overlapped the third one with a bit of foam dimensional tape. The final additions were a die-cut foil star and lining a ready-made envelope with the last of the swirl paper.
Freshly Made Sketches: Freshly Made Sketches #664 - A Sketch by Linda
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