
Good Morning and welcome to the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop! The Stampin’ Up! Traditional Labels bundle has wonderful sentiments for Christmas cards and tags and goes beautifully with the Christmas Greenery bundle and Traditions of Christmas specialty designer series paper. This is my go to for this year’s Christmas cards and I’ve been busy trying to get them done. You can find the supplies I used along with card stock cuts at the bottom of my post.

We have a color challenge this week that picks up nicely with the Traditions of Christmas DSP:

Adhere a strip of Traditions of Christmas DSP to another panel and adhere them both to a Real Red Mat. Wrap the layered panel with Secret Sea ribbon and make a bow on the side. Adhere the panel to the front of a Real Red card base.

Cut the big leaf and two holly leaves from the Christmas Greenery dies from Old Olive and adhere them to the card with glue dots. Cut the pine sprig from Secret Sea and gold foil sheets and adhere them to the card with glue dots.

Stamp the sentiments from the Stampin’ Up! Traditional Labels stamp set using Real Red ink on Pool Party and cut it out with the large label die. Adhere the label to the card using dimensionald and finish with sparkly sequins.

For the inside, stamp the flower and pine branch from the Christmas Greenery stamp set stamped off Real Red, Secret Sea and Old Olive inks in the corner of a Basic White panel. Trim the bottom with DSP and adhere the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal.

This card is a bit thick because of the bow, so I will probably tuck it into a gift package or give it directly to the recipient rather than put it in the mail. But I’ve made lots of flat, mailable, beautiful Christmas cards with the Stampin’ Up! Traditional Labels bundle and Traditions of Christmas DSP, so no one will be missing out. Making Christmas cards is one of my favorite parts of stamping and using these beautiful products makes it a big pleasure!
On with the Hop! Click on the Next Blog button to move forward to see the beautiful project Tara Carpenter has created.
If you get lost along the way, here are the participants for the hop:
- Amy Koenders
- Mary Deatherage
- Karen Ksenzakovic
- Akiko Sudano <– You Are Here
- Tara Carpenter
- Terry Lynn Bright
- Nicole Bloxom
Thanks for stopping by and Happy Stamping!
Akiko
Cardstock Cuts for this project:
- Real Red – 4-1/4″ x 11″ card base, scored at 5-1/2″, 4″ x 5-1/4″ (DSP mat)
- Old Olive – 3″ x 5-1/2″ (die cut leaves)
- Secret Sea – 2″ x 4-3/4″ (die cut pine sprig)
- Pool Party – 2-1/4″ x 3-1/2″ (label)
- Gold Foil – 2″ x 4-3/4″ (die cut pine sprig)
- Basic White – 3-3/4″ x 5″ (inside panel)
- Traditions of Christmas specialty DSP – 3-7/8″ x 5-1/8″ (front background), 2-1/4″ x 3-7/8″ (front stripe), 1/2″ x 3-3/4″ (inside trim)

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