Well, I am just back from On Stage at Orlando where we got a sneak peak and were able to play with some of the sets from the upcoming Occasions Catalogue and Sale-A -Bration that will go live on January 3, 2019. There are some AMAZING sets in this catalogue! I am so excited. There is a fishing set that I cannot wait for. My hubby and oldest son are fishing fanatics and both have birthdays in January. I cant wait to get my hands on this set :). There is something for everyone in the catalogue. But I digress. We are here for the blog hop!!! Which is why I started talking about OnStage because I am sharing my swap card for a Christmas Swap I participated in.
This card had many iterations until I landed on something that worked for me (Thanks Leena for all your suggestions :)). But I am really happy with how it ended up. To make it was pretty simple. I used the Peaceful Poinsettia bundle. Using my stamparatus, I stamped the large poinsettia image on window sheets using staz on. I found that unless I used the stamparatus, the stamp would slide a bit on the window sheet not giving me a crisp picture. So the stamparatus it was!! I remembered which side I stamped on by writing a number 2 (anything would work as long as it would look different upside down) on the window sheet. This is important for coloring and since I was making a whole bunch of these for swaps I needed to keep track of it! Using my blends, I coloured on the back side of the window sheet and then cut out the colored image as well as the same image on sparkle glimmer paper using the thinlets. I repeated this for the smaller holly as well. I attached the two pieces (glimmer and colored window sheet) using glue dots. I adhered a piece of shaded spruce card stock to the multipurpose adhesive sheets and cut out the "Merry" using the Merry Christmas Thinlet Dies. If you don't have the adhesive sheets, glue will work, I just wanted it to be fast and mess free for the swap and I LOVE the adhesive sheets when I have fine pieces to glue down. I stamped the "Christmas" in real red from the Merry Christmas to all stamp set and then attached the "merry". I then ran the whisper white cardstock through the gently falling embossing folder. I assembled the card, attached the ribbon and rhinestones and voila!
For the inside, I kept it pretty simple.
What do you think? Does it work? For all the supplies, see the detailed list below. But don't forget to check out the blogs of all the other talented ladies on the Stamping Symphony Blog Hop!
1. La Cards (Leena)
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Lolly and Sand (Sandy)
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justBstamping (Barb)
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Stamping With Jen (you are here)
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Hofkissed (Steph)
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