Good morning stampers and paper crafters! Welcome to our November Stamp It group blog hop. This months crew has been concentrating on some fun Christmas Holiday cards and giftable projects to share with you. If you hopped on over here from Mary's blog, or made this stop your first visit....Welcome! I am super excited to have you here.
My husband and his Mom (my sweeeet mother-in-law) were reminiscing recently about the days when he was a boy and they would spend Christmas Eve at his grandparent's house for the evening. I've heard these stories many, many times, but one of my favorites is when supper was eaten and the dishes were done, Santa would come to the door with a large sack filled with presents for him, his brother and the cousins. This tradition carried on for quite a few years until they realized that 'Santa' was really their Uncle Jon. haha So, my creation today was inspired by a sweet memory of Santa.
The Whisper White suit border is a 2" wide strip that has been punched with the Scalloped Tag punch and dressed up with a piece of 1-1/4" Cherry Cobbler Striped ribbon and a strand of Jute ribbon. I *love* using the Jute ribbon strands to accent my cards. The Basic Black 'buttons' were punched using the middle circles from the Owl Builder Punch and popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals.
Santa's belt buckle is my favorite part of this card. **squeal**!! The stamped image comes from the Cup Of Cheer stamp set. I inked it with Versa Mark and heat embossed some Cherry Cobbler embossing powder to match the card base. Both layers of the 'buckle' (Basic Black and Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper) were die cut with the Ovals framelits and popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals onto a Basic Black strip to finish off the belt.
Did you notice that several products used are color-coordinated? That's right! and, that's why I *love* Stampin' Up! I don't have to run all over town to color match my papers, ribbons, inks, and even, embossing powder. Stampin' Up! has removed all the stress and unnecessary time spent searching for products to match. YEAH!!
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