Firstly, thank you to the team at Can You Case It? and especially Amy for selecting my card as a Design Team Member pick this week. It was a great start to my weekend to see that I’d been selected.

I had a number of challenges that I was intending to enter but I was distracted with the fun that we had at a class last night and haven’t made the appropriate cards. So here’s one that I made recently, incorporating vellum again.

I knew that I wanted to use this pattern from the Winter Wonderland Designer vellum stack and decided that I’d use it behind the window frame but that’s about all I’d decided when I started this card. I’m hoping that I’m not alone in deciding on a single element and building the card around that! I cut the window frame out of early espresso using the Hearth and Home dies and trimmed the vellum to fit behind it. Then I cut out the trees using the sleigh ride edgelits in gold foil to match the dots on the vellum. I guess I’ll pretend that the sun is shining on them or something. I glued the trees to the back of the window frame with the multipurpose glue and then attached the vellum in the same way. This completed, I contemplated the rest of the card and decided that the softly falling embossing folder would work well. I attached the window frame to the card with dimensionals to keep a gap between the vellum and the raised dots. I also ran the flap of the envelope through the big shot with the same folder so that it coordinates.

I decided to use a die cut word on the inside of the card – why not, right? This is using the Christmas Greetings thinlits dies and the sentiment that I chose happens to come from the Holly Jolly Greetings stamp set which is sold in a bundle with the thinlits dies, thus saving 15%. I was going to say that it was coincidental that I chose this set, but I guess there’s a reason why Stampin’ Up! bundle it together.

See you tomorrow,

Liz