Stampin’ Up! has made it easy this year with lots of coordinating stamps and dies in the Holiday Mini.
This first card uses ‘Peaceful Poinsettia 'with Blends to color. The second card uses the tree from ‘Rooted in Nature’ with the ‘Hometown Greetings’ edgelits. Unfortunately the glittery greeting doesn’t show in the photo – a mixture of black embossing powder and glitter was used to heat emboss it.
This ‘Blizzard’ Thinlits die is wonderful! Not only can you use the snowflakes that are cut out, but the cut up paper (or vellum as we used here) can be used as a background. The Merry Christmas card uses ‘Joyous Noel’ DSP - with its copper foil accents it’s beautiful. Add a strip of copper foil and a snowflake and put it on a layer of whisper white embossed with the Tufted embossing folder and a pretty quick card is the result.
This is a trifold card – hard to take a photo of it! Gold embossed to match the gold in the ‘All is Bright’ DSP.
Tumbling ‘Spirited Snowmen’… I love snowmen! The top of the card was EMBOSSED with the CUTTING Framelit from ‘Stitched Labels’. It’s easy to do using the Big Shot Embossing Mats (p.221 in the Annual Catalogue).
Just the dies from ‘Peaceful Poinsettia’ were used on the first card. We cut two solid images from Very Vanilla and then the outline image from Gold foil. The gold glitter sprigs were punched with the ‘Sprig’ punch. The Merry Christmas card uses the ‘Dashing Deer’ Thinlits and the ‘Tin Tile’ dynamic embossing folder. A light sponging with bright copper ‘Shimmer Paint’ highlighted the design. Did you notice the little scallops on the left of the Merry Christmas banner? They are the tiny die cut snowflakes like the one in the top right of the card.
The ‘Spirited Snowmen’ couple are cute but the card is almost elegant with it’s forest of ‘Winter Woods’ trees. The glittery snow on the trees and the snow banks is hard to see in the photo but its there!! The Making Spirits Bright card uses retired Stampin’ Up! layering star dies. The music, although not Christmas (Sheet Music p. 174 in the Annual Catalogue), makes for a joyful card.
