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Sleigh Ride Edgelits CAS

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I thought I’d change things up a bit today and not use the Blissful Bouquet stamp set! This is a clean and simple Christmas card using the awesome Sleigh Ride Edgelits.

Stampin' Up! Sleigh Ride Edgelits

I cut out the santa and his sleigh in regular whisper white card stock and trimmed it so that it fit on the night of navy cardbase leaving the size border that I liked. Before gluing it to the cardbase, I used real red ink and a sentiment from Jingle All the way which is curved to match the curve of the edgelits. I love the coordination! So after the stamping – just in case of errors – I glued the whisper white piece to the card base.

I then took the snowflake stamp from the Wonderland set and stamped it four or five times across the sky in a now retired silver ink, changing the orientation of the stamp each time. I lined the envelope using some retired backgrounds DSP and the envelope liner framelits.

I think it would also be fun to do this with silver embossing powder but I was creating a simple card for a card class. Actually one of my friends happened to see this card and has decided that she wants to make a stack to send as Christmas cards. That’s a pretty great compliment.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sleigh Ride Edgelits – The Second

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On Saturday I shared a card that I made using the Sleigh Ride Edgelits and mentioned that I’d cut out both Season of Cheer DSP and whisper white card stock at the same time. Once I’d decided that they weren’t going to fit in the same card, I decided to make two.

Stampin' Up! Sleigh Ride Edgelits and Softly Falling TIEF and Season of Cheer DSP

Today’s card features the bottom half of the DSP; I like how the sleigh and horse are set off by the white background. I decided to keep this one very clean without any extra mats and went searching through my stamp sets for a star that I could perhaps emboss. Nothing felt right. I suddenly remembered my (up to now) unused Softly Falling embossing folder and then the decision was easy. I embossed a piece of whisper white and allowed it to act as a mat. I then put this onto a night of navy card base. The envelope is lined with more of the Season of Cheer DSP using the Envelope liners framelits. The DSP is purposely different shades of blue in the same sheet – the whole stack has a water colour kind of look. It’s one of my favourite DSPs this year.

Here are the two cards side by side for comparison – let me know which you prefer

Stampin' Up! Jingle all the way and Season of Cheer DSP and Sleigh Ride framelits diesStampin' Up! Sleigh Ride Edgelits and Softly Falling TIEF and Season of Cheer DSP

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sleigh Ride

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Many thanks to LeAnne for selecting my card as A Cut Above at the Paper Players this week; it’s an honour to be chosen. Challenges are so much fun – I’d never have made that card without the colour challenge.

Today’s card was also for a challenge – and I held up my blog entry yesterday trying to get the card finished so that I could enter it in the Global Design Project‘s sketch challenge. Sadly I didn’t manage to complete my card until after the challenge link was closed. However, today I finished two cards inspired by the challenge.

Stampin' Up! Jingle all the way and Season of Cheer DSP and Sleigh Ride framelits dies

I actually cut a piece of the Season of Cheer DSP and whisper white card at the same time with the Sleigh Ride Edgelits dies thinking to match up the curves. This didn’t work so well after I punched out the little pieces between the horses legs and the sleigh. Now I was left with missing blue for the background. This is really what sparked making two cards! I stamped the sentiment from Jingle all the Way in real red – I’d left just enough of the curve to match the curved sentiment. I then cut another piece of the DSP and mounted the whisper white on it. The night of navy mat is just 1/8 inch larger giving a skinny border before mounting this onto the new (to me) heavy weight whisper white card stock. It’s much more sturdy than the regular card stock.

As you can see, I used the envelope liner framelits and more of the Season of Cheer DSP to line the envelope. I do like to have them match the card.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sleigh Ride Edgelits again

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I had a productive weekend and made cards for a couple of challenges. I suppose it’s fairly inevitable that there will be similarities since I’m not good at putting everything away after making the first card. So this card also uses the sleigh ride edgelits. It’s for the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge.

Stampin' Up! Sleigh Ride edgelits and holly jolly greetings and christmas greetings thinlits

And here’s the banner which inspired my card:

I actually already had the night of navy buildings cut out; I’d been toying with using them for my brother’s birthday card back in August and since I didn’t, they were on my pile of things to use later. I wanted to put gold foil behind the doors and windows and realised that I only needed to attach the foil enough that it didn’t move before I stuck down the night of navy piece. So there are little strips of gold foil which are a fair bit longer than necessary so that I could glue them in place far enough away from the openings such that I wouldn’t have to worry about glue showing. I then turned it over carefully and glued it down to the soft sky card base. I stamped the Christmas sentiment in night of navy – it’s from the Holly Jolly Greetings set. Then I cut out the merry from more gold foil using the Christmas Greetings Thinlits and stuck it down using the fine tip glue pen. It’s a lot easier to use this than anything I’ve tried previously.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Wonderland

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I really like the colours chosen for this week’s challenge by the Pals Paper Arts but I’m surprised that I ended up with a Christmas card – it wasn’t my intent but the card evolved in its own direction as often seems to happen.

Stampin' Up! Wonderland and Sleigh Ride Edgelits

Here’s the banner that was the inspirationPPA270

I started by cutting out the trees in Always Artichoke using the Sleigh Ride Edgelits. I originally planned use the silent night from the Jingle all the Way set – the curve fits perfectly with the curve cut  by the framelits. But then there was just too much bare expanse of sahara sand. I couldn’t see making any stars with the available colour choices so turned to the Wonderland stamp set. I stamped both sentiments in blackberry bliss – and amazed myself by remembering to do this before I popped up the always artichoke piece. I even cut little pieces of dimensionals to put behind the trees. I then mounted this on a blackberry bliss card base. It’s an ultra clean card and I’m really happy with it.

See you tomorrow,

Liz