Here’s a nice Christmas card for a special person. You probably wouldn’t want to mass produce this one, but sometimes we need special cards for certain people. This Season of Green & Gold Bells Christmas Card would fit the bill!
This card has a Garden Green cardstock base. Everything else except the greeting comes from the Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper is beyond beautiful with its variety of foliage and greenery with gold foil accents and the beautiful gold foil bells. Certain images on the paper can be diecut with the Golden Greenery Dies. For this card, the foliage across the top of the card was diecut directly from the paper. The single bells can be diecut or you can just fussy-cut them with Paper Snips scissors. Sometimes that is just as quick!
After I diecut the greenery pieces I layered them across the top. The one big piece on the left is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and the others are adhered flat on the card. The background paper with the gold foil designs make for a neutral background for the foliage and bells.
The bells were placed along the greenery. I think I intended to pop up just the middle bells on Dimensionals, but the first bell on the left had to be popped up at the bottom because it layered on top of the already popped up evergreen greenery. I put a little Multipurpose Liquid Glue under the top of the bell and to keep it even I put a Dimensional at the bottom. The third bell is glued down flat on the card. I added bows tied with the Cherry Cobbler & Gold 1/4″ Satin Ribbon to the first and third bells since the double bells already had a green printed bow at the top. This narrow ribbon was perfect to go with the bells with its gold edge.
The greeting is from the Reindeer Fun Stamp Set. This greeting seemed to fit the space and was a nice saying. I stamped it with Versamark Ink on Very Vanilla cardstock after rubbing my little anti-static bag across the paper. Then I used Gold Embossing Powder, which you can find in the Metallics Wow Embossing Powder which also has Copper and Silver Embossing Powder. You also need the Heat Tool to melt the embossing powder. When needed, I keep a small paint brush to brush off any stray embossing granules before I use the Heat Tool. Heat embossing is probably one of the most amazing things to do with papercrafting, if you haven’t tried it yet. Then the greeting was diecut with the large banner in the Stylish Shapes Dies. This diecut was going to fit the greeting and the space on my card the best in spite of trying some other die shapes. To help it stand out, I also diecut the same banner out of Gold Foil, cut it in half horizontally, and glued the halves to the top and bottom of the greeting just to give that little bit of gold edge. Then the whole thing was adhered flat to the card. It could have been popped up also.
For a finishing touch, I added some of the Cherry Cobbler & Pearl Adhesive-Backed Berries around in the greenery. As I write this, it says “Low Inventory” so if you want to order some, you better do it very soon!
As you can see, this card takes a little more work and time, but I think the designer paper makes it easy to make an elegant card. On the inside I added a layer of Very Vanilla cardstock and since I had an extra small piece of greenery and one more cut-out bell, I adhered those to the top corner of the inside. Something on the inside of the card is always a nice surprise for the recipient!
It’s time to shop for sure for your holiday cardmaking supplies if you haven’t already. We all know how fast Christmas sneaks up on us! But have fun making some cards to send no matter how busy the season gets!
