This Year's Christmas Card

Now that these are all in the mail (well, almost) I can share my holiday card here. December has been a very busy month, but I'm getting ready for the New Year with my little list of goals, and one of those is to contribute to this blog more regularly. I'm also hoping to start doing some design challenges, so be sure to look for those!

In the meantime, I love this card. I absolutely fell in love with the Tree Trimmings set when the 09-10 Idea Book arrived in the mail, and immediately decided that I would do my holiday cards with it. I borrowed the color scheme from my favorite holiday DSP (Holiday Lounge), and whipped up 40 of these (some had Sahara Sand as a base instead of the Basic Grey, which lightened things up) last week. As you can see, I'm still on my embossing kick.

I hope you all had a lovely holiday and are making your own lists of goals for the New Year.

Stamps: Tree Trimmings, Christmas Punch (Hostess Level 2)

Paper: Basic Grey, Taken with Teal, Ruby Red, Whisper White

Ink: Taken with Teal, Basic Grey, Versamark

Extras: Silver EP, Paper Piercer, Mat Pack

Holly Jolly Ornaments

Tree Trimmings is my holiday set of choice this year--it was the first one in the catalog that I had to buy, and I'm still looking for great ways to use it. As I mentioned the other day, I have fallen in love with heat embossing again, and these ornaments look great in gold, or in silver, or any other way. For this card, I paired Tree Trimmings with the Christmas Punch set (Hostess Level Two) and the Movers and Shapers die. I really like that this gives a sentiment on the inside, as well as the depth to the front. Not to mention coordination with the curly label punch! A tiny strip of dsp in holiday colors gives the ornaments have a place to hang, and I'm ready to put this in the mail.

This is another option for the holiday card buffet this Wednesday. I hope you'll be here!