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  • Brushed Gold Bright and Beautiful Star Christmas Card

    Yesterday I started sharing some of my Christmas cards from classes and today I’d thought I’d share another.  This was my first chance playing with the Brushed Gold cardstock, and let me tell you, it is Fabulous!

    I was playing with different ideas when I came up with this card, but in the end, I loved the simplicity of it with lots of pretty touches.

    Tips for making this card:

    • Die cut the larger star using the Star Framelits from Stampin’ Up directly from your card base.  Then fill the hole by gluing a piece of pretty cardstock (like this Brushed Gold) to the inside of your card.  It makes it pretty inside and out!

    • Tie around some glitzy baker’s twine and then fray the edges after you knot it to give it a softer touch.
    • Use the Bright & Beautiful stamp set to stamp and cut out with the Star Framelits, a central focus point to layer inside your star cutout in the card base.
    • Add a simple rhinestone to the center of the star and color it with Blendabilities for some subtle sparkle that coordinates!

    See, easy peasy!  But lots of shimmer and sparkle.  Oh, and I forgot to mention, the Brushed Gold cardstock is heavier weight than I was used to with cardstock, which makes it great as a layer or even a card base.  Really adds some feel good heft to your cards!

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    Happy Monday!

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  • Friday Favorite–Amazing Birthday the Display Board Swap Card

    Friday Favorite–Amazing Birthday the Display Board Swap Card

    Today over on the Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration blog, the girls are sharing some of their favorites items.  I thought I would do a spin on that and share one of my favorite Convention Display Board cards and the stamp set that I loved working with – Amazing Birthday.  Like I’ve said before, I really like that this set is not just about Birthday but can be used for thanks, guys, or anything in between.  But in this case, I stuck to birthday and my favorite shape of the season – STARS!! No joke, I am so digging the stars thing right now and when I finished this card, it was the first one from the set of display board projects that I really got excited about.  So much so that I used it for our group swap where we picked on of our cards from the board to create and trade.

    (SPOILER ALERT! If you love stars, get excited because in the upcoming Holiday Catalog, there is a stars embossing folder & a stars confetti border punch!!! Um, yes please!!)

    Tips for creating this card:

    • Pick a neutral color and then two contrasting colors (I picked Crumb Cake, Pacific Point, and Hello Honey) and then repeat them all over your card.  Don’t be afraid to use a non-traditional color for your shape like blue for stars.
    • Offset your die cut images for a more interesting look.  You’ll notice that I had the Hello Honey banner aligned with the edge of the Crumb Cake whereas the Pacific Point is aligned to the edge of the card base.
    • Sponge the edge of bigger cardstock elements (like the the bigger star) to help them have more dimension even if you don’t pop them up on a dimensional.  Often just using the same color as the cardstock is enough.
    • When die cutting a shape with the matching framelit, like I did here with the banners, USE the Magnetic Platform!  Yes, you can use a post-it note… or the hope really hard methods Winking smile  but you will have a better time getting an even edge around your images when you use the magnetic platform because it is strong enough to keep the framelit where you set it!

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    Oh, I forgot to mention, the sentiment is actually hand cut out… and yes, that Happy doesn’t have the dark line to the left of the “H”… that is intentional. Smile When I was doing this for a swap, I cut long strips for Whisper White cardstock (around 1.25” wide) and stamped my sentiment on the strip and then trimmed down with my snips to the narrower width. But this is a fun color combination, so grab some cardstock and give it a try with your projects.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

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