A Fast, Easy and Elegant Holiday Card

Last year I started teaching Holiday Cards in the summer with the idea that by Thanksgiving my students would have created 48 Holiday Cards, if they took a class each month! Each month there were 3-5 different designs and they created an average of 3-4 cards of the same design. I wanted the classes to be fun and still teach or fine tune their skills.

Working from the bottom up: This card was created on a card base that has a shimmer to it and  for that reason it is important to use a strong double sided tape (like Red Line, Score-Pal etc.) Otherwise there wasn't a good adhesion and your layers wouldn't stick over the long haul. We next used a silver shimmer cardstock and embossed it with a snowflake embossing folder. I love how elegant this looks.

I used the same blue shimmer paper to create a mat for my stamping image and punched a scallop as a mat for the saying. Using a silver ink pad I stamped the trees and saying on white cardstock. The white cardstock with the trees is adhered directly to the blue shimmer paper mat and then foam tape is used for dimension. The Joy of Christmas was stamped then punched out with a circle punch and popped onto the blue scallop circle which is also popped up.

Tips: We heat set all stamped images to prevent smearing without having to wait for them to dry. Because the blue scallop circle overlaps the trees I placed a double layered of foam tape toward the bottom half of the scalloped circle and the top half rests on the popped up on the stamped tree image without any type of adhesive. Inside I adhered white cardstock so a message could be written.

For a WOW effect stamp the trees and saying then emboss them with clear embossing powder.