Stealing a March on Christmas

We held our Christmas card class on Saturday – in glorious sunshine! I must admit it was hard to get in the mood for designing Christmas cards but, once I was there, it was great fun. I hope the ladies who came along enjoyed themselves, too.

Both the cards on my table used Season of Joy. By the end of the session some of us had used every stamp out of the set, which is quite a feat.

For this card, we stamped the top third of the card with Ruby Red ink on the Ruby Red cardstock. We scalloped a strip of Old Olive cardstock with the Scallop Edge punch, then pierced each scallop. The Bravo Burgundy strip is lightly distressed on one edge. I either lost or used up my Always Artichoke ribbon, so everyone else used Whisper White along the centre.

The main image is stamped in Bravo Burgundy, then stamped again in Old Olive on a scrap of Whisper White. We then used the ¾” punch to punch out the snowflake circle from the centre of JOY! and mounted it on top using a Stampin’ Dimensional.

Glitter was an option – I think there’s some on the flowers on mine but I’m not a big glitter user so I left that to the others.

Stamps: Season of Joy
Cardstock: Ruby Red, Old Olive, Bravo Burgundy, Whisper White
Ink: Bravo Burgundy, Old Olive, Ruby Red
Accessories: Scallop Edge Punch, ¾” circle punch, ¼” Grosgrain Ribbon - Always Artichoke, Crafters’ Toolkit, Stampin’ Glitter – Dazzling Diamonds

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