Hi Friends! This is Caitlin and I am back with you today sharing a fun Christmas card. I am finally really starting to get in the mood for the holiday season, I know I’m late to the party but I feel like being honest about not always being in the holiday spirit is important. Sometimes card making and inspiration comes easily, and sometimes we gotta work it a little bit. If you feel like that too, you are not alone.
This weekend I wanted to play with the Gingerbread Kisses stamp set and try to create a very traditional feeling card. I started out by stamping my two favorite images, the cup/bath gingie and the house, with the new premium dye ink in Asphalt. The new inks are alcohol ink friendly so I let them dry for a few minutes because the pads are so juicy and then colored in my images with Copic Markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and then decided that they needed some sparkle. I used the EZ Squeeze precision glue with the lightest possible touch on the gingerbread mans frosting, the lollipops and along the roof off the house. I sprinkled some of the Ice Rink Superfine Glitter onto and tapped off the excess back into the jar. Then I set them aside to dry and got to work building a card base for them to live on. I started out by grabbing the Homespun Christmas Paper Pad and at first I was torn between red/white and green/white. I decided that there was so much red in my coloring, that if I added a red background it would get lost.
So I trimmed down one of the green and white patterns to be 5.5 in x 4.25 in for my A2 sized card front. I adhered it to a side folding card base with the EZ Squeeze glue. There was still too much pattern happening for my colored images to go directly on this panel so I decided to dry emboss a solid color to help them pop. I grabbed a piece of Pebble Card Stock and ran it through my die cutting machine with the Buffalo Plaid Embossing Folder. I have really been loving the tone on tone texture that these embossing folders add to a project and I think this really created the perfect background for my stamped images. I trimmed down this panel to be 4.75 in x 3.5 in and added it to the card. I decided to stamp the sentiment onto a scrap of Pebble Card stock and cutting it out with the coordinating die as well.
I added the gingerbread house to the card flat and added the mug and the sentiment with foam tape to help them stand out and give added dimension to our little scene. To add one final touch out sparkle, I pulled out the White Glitter Enamel Dots and added 5 of them across the card. I love tucking a few of them under the popped up items just to help bring all the different layers together. Thank you so much for being here and I hope you all have an amazing Thanksgiving week if you are in the US, or an amazing week in general if you aren’t.