Firstly I’d like to thank the ladies at CAS Colours and Sketches for selecting my card as a weekly winner. It’s a lovely surprise to go to the site to check on the next challenge and find that my card was one of the winners.

For anyone who knows my style of carding, today’s card may come as a bit of a surprise. Not only does it have ribbon, there’s also an embellishment!

This card started with the stamp set from this month’s Paper Pumpkin and some spare time that I grabbed by leaving my brother to do the cooking! I had the card almost complete by the time our friend arrived for dinner. I gold embossed the JOY onto a scrap of cherry cobbler card stock and then cut it out with one of the square framelits. I then cut a piece of gold foil with the next largest framelit and glued the two together. Then there was a fair amount of thought as to what was going to happen next. The container of reindeer clips was close and that looked possible but there was still something missing. I’m still surprised that I grabbed ribbon – although it’s much easier to do so these days with my custom built ribbon holder right in front of me. Once I’d determined that I was adding ribbon, I decided that I needed another piece of cherry cobbler as the card front so that the ribbon could be attached between the front and the card base. I don’t like seeing the ends of ribbon inside the card. First I embossed the sentiment in gold (also from the Paper Pumpkin Mistletoe and Holly set) before wrapping the ribbon around the piece of cherry cobbler and attaching it securely with fast fuse. I then glued this to the card base. The JOY square is popped up on dimensionals giving room for the reindeer clip to be attached.

The card fits in with the theme at the Global Design Project this week, so I’m entering it there.

See you tomorrow,

Liz