HOLIDAY CARD IDEA

This is a holiday card I made at Jan Wakeland's home at the last Diva day. I used the Christmas cocoa designer paper from the SU! holiday mini as the accent piece with the snowflakes on it. I also stamped the holiday ornament and punched it with the companion punch. The Merry Christmas sentiment is from the stamp set Four the Holidays, which has some great sentiments in it. The base card stock is real red and then I layered it with soft suede that I texturized with the Big Shot. This is a new texture plate that recently came out...so you may not have it yet. It is a gorgeous one for only $3.95 and has a flourish texture on the opposite side. The ribbon is real red grosgrain and is so nice on top of the ornament.
Ok...did anyone know there were only 39 nights until Christmas?

STARTING TO GET READY FOR CHRISTMAS

I'm starting to think about the holidays. For World Card Making Day October 2nd I'm going to be doing a Holiday Card Class. Although this will not be one of the cards, we may use this punch and stamp set. I was just dying to try out the new ornament punch by SU! I love it. What I did was to stamp serene snowflakes onto silver card stock and vellum. I used silver embossing powder on the silver card stock and white embossing powder on the vellum. I then punched out the ornament punches and adhered them to red card stock. I used silver elastic cording to hang the ornaments (I'm so glad SU! brought the cording back). The sentiment was embossed in silver. I think the holidays are about the glitz and the glitter and the embossing so there will be lots more of that in the upcoming weeks. Enjoy today's sample.