I recently got the Stampin’ Up! embellished events set and the santa hat just jumped out at me. I noticed recently on Susan Itell’s site how great some scoring looks to create the card’s border and it seemed like a good idea here.

I used a piece of very vanilla 5.25″ by 4″ to stamp on, using both the hat and the sentiment from the Embellished Events set and real red ink. Then I flipped the paper over and scored at 1/4 inch from the edge on all four sides. This means that the scoring is raised rather than a valley on the front of the card. I then adhered it to a base of very vanilla and apart from a greeting stamped inside, I was done. It was “christmas greetings” from Endless Wishes in case you’re curious. I went to my stash of envelope liners and found that I was out of real red. No worries – I grabbed a 12 by 12 inch piece of the backgrounds DSP in real red and cut it into eight 3″ by 6″ pieces. Then I cut the liners two at a time (I figure that the DSP is much thinner than card stock) and then scored them 2 at a time as well on the Stampin’ trimmer. I glued one to my very vanilla envelope and the card was complete. Easy and effective.

If you have any questions or want to buy supplies, get a catalogue, come to a class or join my team, please email me. I’d love to help – it’s amazing how much fun this is, and how much fun it is sharing.