I'm on a mission this year to stick to cards that easily fit in an envelope for my Christmas cards. I love how easy it is to make the sentiments from Holiday Greetings the focal point. Add a little patterned paper or mixed media background and maybe a stamped accent or two and voila! A beautiful card that was quick and easy and totally mailable!
This first card started with embossing the sentiment in gold on cream cardstock. I love that this sentiment could easily be for the inside or outside of the card! I die cut this in a circle, adding a green mat, then picked some pattern papers to set things off.
For the accent, I pulled out the Deck the Halls set to coordinate with the holly in the patterned paper. These holly stamps would also work well with the Holly Jolly sentiment in the Holiday Greetings set. I stamped the leaves three times and embossed with gold, then stamped the berries in a very light ink and colored with Copic markers. I hand trimmed, accenting the berries with glossy accents and then sprinkled on a little Vintage Platinum Glitter Dust.
My next card features a different sentiment from Holiday Greetings and a different line of paper.
The paper pad I used includes some little pieces you can cut out, so I trimmed those out by hand and then layered for a fun floral/pinecone accent. A bit of shading with weathered wood distress ink sets off the blues in this paper and I finished with a seam binding bow behind the sentiment.
And there you have two quick cards with this fabulously versatile set. Holiday Greetings is available to purchase, OR you can earn it for free with a $75 order in September. Just add it to your cart and the discount will automatically apply once you've qualified.
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