This All Is Bright Happy Holidays Card is fun and easy to make with just a bit of designer paper and the greeting die cut with the Big Shot. This card could be made a little plainer if you wanted even quicker and easier or you could jazz it up even a little bit more. Most cards are like this, that they can be made very simple and easy or they can have lots of embellishments and bling.
I started with just a card base of Real Red (which I have a hard time remembering that it is not in the “Brights” color family anymore!) and a strip of the Christmas stockings cut from a piece of paper in the All Is Bright Designer Series Paper. I layered the strip of designer paper on a piece of Garden Green cardstock. The greeting is die cut from Gold Foil Paper with the word dies in the Merry Christmas Thinlits Dies. Had I been able to find my Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets I would have used these on the back of the Gold Foil Paper before die-cutting. That way no glue is required on the very narrow letters. But since I didn’t have the Adhesive Sheets at hand, I did just use very tiny dots of the Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
I finally decided that the Real Red card base was a little plain, so I embossed it with the Tufted Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. I thought this folder gave an elegant look to the card and kind of went with the stockings since sometimes Christmas stockings have that quilted, tufted look. This is one of the “dynamic” folders that is thicker and heavier so it is best to just spritz the cardstock with a bit of water before embossing. That softens the paper fibers so you get the best embossing.
After embossing the card front and adhering all the pieces, I thought why not add a little bit of Garden Green & White Baker’s Twine to the stocking on the designer paper for a little embellishment. And that’s all there is to the card! Like I said in the beginning, the card could have been made with just the plain card front, the greeting and the designer paper and layer adhered to the card front and it would be done and look fine. Certainly if you were making a lot of the same card it would be easier to keep the card simple.
Remember that if you earned any Bonus Coupon Codes in August, you can use them on any purchase in August. And be sure to check out the Clearance Rack since more items were added the other day. Some are already gone, but get what you can while supplies last! There are plenty of products on there that you could be using right now for the holidays, maybe with adding new designer paper or new cardstock colors to freshen things up!
Check out this other Christmas card I made using the All Is Bright Designer Series Paper. This paper has those photographic images as the design which makes it so pretty. I plan to make more of this card! I like to make lots of different designs since we have so many great stamp sets and papers to use for Christmas cards, so I make a few cards of each design. And yes, then it is hard to decide who to send which card to at mailing time!
Be sure to order your supplies early so you won’t have backorders to deal with if you want to make a card like this All Is Bright Happy Holidays Card.
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