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Suite Seasons for an easy Christmas card

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Continuing my quest to use up DSP, I pulled out the This Christmas DSP paper and found the wonderful music paper that I’d forgotten about. This seemed to pair perfectly with Suite Seasons.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Suite Seasons - This Christmas DSP Paper

So I cut the DSP to a usual layer size ( 1/4 inch smaller than the card) and made my black layer just a smidge larger to border it. I glued this to a real red card base wrapping a piece of the gold satin ribbon around it as I did so. Next I made numeous greetings from Suite Seasons – first in real red, then I embossed it in gold. Unfortunately on whisper white when the DSP was vanilla. So I have a whisper white and gold greeting to play with later! I cut out a scalloped mat using the Layering Ovals framelits and popped this up on dimensionals.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Merriest Wishes

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I wanted to feature the Merriest Wishes stamp set and that grew into this card! I seem to be back in Christmas card making mode – tomorrow should be different!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Merriest Wishes - Merry Tags - This Christmas Specialty DSP

I used a piece of DSP from the This Christmas specialty DSP paper and wrapped two pieces of the gold satin ribbon around it to make it look like a parcel. I tied the bow as well. It was clear that the underlying ribbon was too wide and wasn’t going to look as if the ribbon was one piece tied in a bow so I used a few glue dots to pull the ribbon together so as to give the impression that it was tied. You can see how on the right hand side of the bow, the ribbon isn’t it’s full width and looks as it it’s drawn into a bow? Yup. Glue dots!

Next I made the tag. First I used versamark and gold embossing powder for the sentiment which is from the Merriest Wishes set and cut it out with the coordinating Merry Tags framelits dies. I then cut it out again in garden green and crumb cake and carefully snipped the trees and the deer and glued them onto my very vanilla one. Since I didn’t want to introduce another colour, I cut out a plain tag disc again using the framelits in very vanilla and glued that onto the back. I attached the tag using the garden green twine from the Baker’s Twine Trio Pack and then used more glue dots to adhere the bow. I really like how this came out although I think the tag steals the show!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

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This Christmas specialty DSP

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I got started a little late this morning – my father is staying and that seems to cause late nights of playing pool and talking. No complaints, it’s wonderful having him here but finding carding time is harder. I decided to use some DSP and pulled out an as yet unused pack – This Christmas specialty DSP. It’s a different pack in that the paper is a little thinner than usual but you get double the sheets. So 24 12″ by 12″ sheets for only $13. They are double sided with one side more focused towards the holidays and the other just fun patterns (and one of them is sheet music – I’m tempted to get my violin out and see what it is!).

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - This Christmas specialty DSP - Christmas Pines

I really like this paper because it’s got very vanilla in it rather than whisper white which makes it feel much warmer. I pulled out one of the more holiday patterns and cut a piece at 4 3/4″ by 3 1/2″. I cut a piece of very vanilla 1/8″ larger for a thin mat and then put that onto my cherry cobbler card base. I really like the pattern, but I wanted a wide plain border to calm it down a trifle.

I really wanted to use my copper embossing powder and as I pulled out Christmas Pines and the big Noel it occurred to me that the gold embossing powder is going to be neglected this year. Until I found that the copper doesn’t really go with the cherry cobbler – it’s got a hint of pinkness to it which just doesn’t work. So out came the gold embossing powder. And that was perfect. I cropped it with the layering ovals framelits dies adding a mat of cherry cobbler and popped that part up with dimensionals.

If you’re planning on making a lot of Christmas cards, the This Christmas specialty DSP is tremendous value. If you use the amount that I did today, you’d have enough in the pack for 144 cards.

See you tomorrow (a little earlier!)

Liz