I'm sure I'm not alone in starting out with an idea for a card and ending up with something completely different! I've been mulling several ideas around in my head for our 2024 personal holiday cards. After several tries I ran this one past my husband and he likes it enough to request it as the main one we'll send out. I started by wanting to participate in the Tic Tac Toe Challenge that just posted today. My first choice was to do a White on White/Frame/Metallic (top across), but as I played with it I felt compelled to add a bit of one of my favorite colors. This threw me into one of the diagonal choices - Metallic/Embossing/Die Cuts - where I landed.
I used a pre-made Strathmore card base with matching A7 envelopes. I haven't designed the inside yet but will work on that this week. By the time I work with this a bit there may be some changes to make it a bit more simple for a production of 25 or so cards. I'll post the completed card in my Christmas Gallery when it's ready.
I can hardly resist using my Alexandra Renke "Winter Village" dies each year for at least a couple of my cards. I die cut several of the buildings and trees from the same paper as the card base and mounted them onto a printed rectangle of dark coral card stock (the other side of this paper is rows of gifts with bows - I love both sides, but especially the coral side) that I had added some Tim Holtz spatters in silver heat embossing. I matted it with a couple of layers of additional rectangles and attached it to the face of the card. The sentiment was also silver heat embossed and the final layer was an old star cluster die that I have used many, many times.
TTTC262- Featured Designer Betty - Tic Tac Toe Challenge
That pop of color with all of the white is wonderful and I love the little Christmas village! Terrific card, Fran!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Darlene - I plan to visit regularly!
ReplyDeleteLove those dies, and the silver splatters look so good with the white. Thanks for sharing with us at Simply Clean & Simple!
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