Sunday 22 December 2013

Countdown to Christmas Day 22

Hey!

Still not quite done with the Christmas cards! This one is for Karl's Mam & Dad and I'm pleased with the way it's turned out.




I started out by printing the 'Mam & Dad' sentiment onto some white 160 gsm paper and trimmed it to size. I then stamped the snowflakes from Background Builders: Christmas in silver and set it aside to dry. 




I then die cut a medium Designer Die Snowflake & added some Cosmic Shimmer silver glitter. The 'Merry Christmas' label is from Label Love: Thank you stamped in silver & embossed with star dust EP and I used a 1 3/8" circle punch to punch out just the middle circle of the label. As this is a hand delivered card, I added LOTS of dimension to the layers using foam adhesive! 




It's easy to personalise a card using your computer and a nice font, there are tons of free fonts for personal use available on the internet. A few key points to help you with this that I used are firstly design a card layout where you can add the sentiment as a small panel or die cut. This is useful for a couple of reasons, firstly if your printer doesn't like heavy card (like mine) you can use a lighter weight card stock or like I have 160 gsm paper. Secondly, if you make a mistake or it doesn't turn out the way you imagined you haven't wasted good card! 

That's all from me today, short & sweet as I've a dinner to cook! I'll be back tomorrow with more to share, until then thank you for stopping by today :)

Supplies
Card Stock: White from stash. PTI Hawaiian Shores
Ink: Colorbox Silver. VersaFine Onyx Black
Stamps: Uniko Studio Background Builders: Christmas, Label Love: Thank you & Label Love: Christmas
Accessories: Uniko Studio Designer Dies Snowflakes, Cosmic Shimmer Polished Silk Glitter (Silver), Star Dust EP, PTI Hawaiian Shores Bitty Dot Ribbon & Foam Adhesive.

11 comments:

  1. This is so gorgeous. I love the colors together and the bit of bling.

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  2. Your in-laws will LOVE x LOVE this card, Beverly! Snowflakes, grey and teal, a fabulous layout...stunning!! Have a fabulous Sunday!!
    c

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  3. Bev this is stunning! I'm off to get these dies...gorgeous!

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  4. Stunning! I really love the colors and the fab snowflake.

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  5. A beautiful and very elegant card.
    Happy Holidays!

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  6. This card is SO beautifu Bevl,they will love it!! Love the snowflake with the glitter!!

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  7. Beautiful card Beverley - just perfect for personalising too. x

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  8. I Love this colour combination Bev. A very striking card! xx

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  9. Bev this is so gorgeous! I love the silver and blue--wow!

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  10. What a fab layout and gorgeous colors, so elegant!

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  11. Gorgeous card. These colours are fantastic together.

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