This Lights Aglow Colored Strips Christmas Card came about after seeing a pretty similar card in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog on page 32. It’s a great way to use up designer paper scraps by using various designer paper strips for the background of the card. It shows off lots of the pretty paper and provides a nice card front. And no waste if you have saved a bunch of scraps!

This card starts with a Cherry Cobbler Cardstock card base. I had a lot of scrap strips from the Lights Aglow 6″ x 6″ Specialty Designer Series Paper. In whatever way I had cut up the paper, I had a lot of 4″ x 3/4″ strips. I began laying out the strips on the card base, just eyeballing it. Then I got the idea that with the paper having gold foil accents, it might look nice if there was gold foil in between the strips. Finally, I decided to cut a piece of Gold Foil for the background of the strips. Fortunately, six strips fit just right on that layer of Gold Foil! If you want to do all the math and figure out the space measurements and all that, go right ahead, but you are very likely to just lay out the strips and have them spaced apart pretty evenly! My Stampin’ Up! Grid Paper was a little bit of help but mostly I just eyeballed it.

I die-cut a Christmas tree out of one of the green Lights Aglow papers using the Twinkling Lights Dies. I also cut out a tree in Gold Foil just with the outline die to adhere behind the tree die so the gold would show through the little holes in the Christmas tree! The tree was then adhered to the card front. You can pop it up if you like, I just glued mine flat. You could instead pop up the background with the strips of paper. If you are going to mail the card, though, you don’t want it

For the greeting, I stamped the banner in Cherry Cobbler ink in the Christmas Banners Stamp Set and cut it out with the Christmas Banner Dies. You can get both in the Christmas Banners Bundle and save 10%. Since I wanted the greeting to be gold to match the card, I stamped the greeting with Versamark Ink and embossed it with Gold Powder using the Heat Tool. The greeting is in the Christmas Banners Stamp Set. I popped up the banner using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

To finish off the Christmas tree, I die-cut the little “star” at the top of the tree with one of the dies out of Gold Foil. I also placed a few Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels on the tree for just a little more sparkle!

I don’t think you would want to mass-produce this card to send, but if you have some scraps, it is easy enough to make one or a few more cards with this design!