Happy Saturday! Did you survive Black Friday shopping? Black Friday is one of my favorite days, I
love heading out with a friend in the middle of the night and strategically planning
our stores so we can get the deals and cross as many gifts off the list as
possible (usually I’m about 95% done after this one weekend which is
awesome!) There are just two more days
left in the month and the 30-Day Gratitude card challenge and since
Thanksgiving is over I’m moving on to Christmas cards for my last two posts. Today’s card was designed using the FabFriday Sketch challenge layout and uses some of my favorite items (stars, yeah
I know!). I started with Cherry Cobbler
for the cardbase and then added a layer of Early Espresso (it’s been a long
time since I’ve used this color, don’t know why). To this I added a piece of Under the Tree Speciality Designer Series
Paper (can’t believe I’ve had this DSP package since July and this was the
first time I’ve used it, oh my!) and matted the DSP with Garden Green cardstock. This DSP is also awesome since it’s extra
think which makes it perfect for making gift boxes and other 3D items where you
need something to be more sturdy.
For the star I used the Bright and Beautiful stamp set and
stamped the middle size star with Early Espresso ink on Cherry Cobbler
cardstock and the small star was stamped with Versamark ink on Garden Green
cardstock and heat embossed with the Heat
Tool and Gold Embossing Powder. Both the stars were cut out with the Big Shot and Star Collection Framelits and attached to the card with dimensionals (each star has
dimensionals. The greeting is from the Lots of Thanks stamp set and I used my Stampin’ Write marker to just in the
part of the stamp that I needed (love being able to do this, makes the stamps
even more versatile). I used Paper Snips to trim the sides of the
paper and sponged around the edge with Garden Green cardstock before attaching
it with dimensionals.
There are so many different
options with this sketch and I love to see what everyone comes up with based on
the same sketch as a starting point
Below are easy ordering
links for the products used on today’s card:
Enjoy,
Diana
Diana - what a beautiful use of this Under the Tree Specialty paper. A beautiful card! Thanks for playing along with this week's Fab Friday sketch challenge.
ReplyDeleteLovely! I like the layered star as well as the sponging on the sentiment...this is a good reminder to me to not forget to make some thank yous for after Christmas...I always seem to scramble at the end of Dec.! Thanks for sharing at Fab Friday!
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