Vickie Lou Designs: Gorgeous Gingham Vintage Christmas Card. Stamping with Friends Blog Hop October 2022

Saturday, 22 October 2022

Gorgeous Gingham Vintage Christmas Card. Stamping with Friends Blog Hop October 2022

Good Evening Everyone

Happy Saturday!

Today I'm blog hopping with the Fabulous Stamping with Friends ladies and the theme is Christmas Cards.

I've chosen to use the Vintage Christmas Stamp set which I absolutely adore and used Merry Merlot as my base tone - I feel like this colour really works well for Christmas themes - what do you think?

Measurements

Merry Merlot Card Stock

1pc - 4 1/8" x 11 3/4", scored at 5 7/8"

1pc - 3 7/8" x 5 5/8"

Sahara Sand Card Stock

scraps

Very Vanilla Card Stock

1pc - 5 5/8" x 3 7/8"

scraps

Gold Specialty Paper

Scraps

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Take the larger piece of Merry Merlot and fold along the score line to create your card base. Add the Very Vanilla to the inside.

Bring in your Cut & Emboss machine and run the remaining piece of Merry Merlot Card Stock through the Gingham Embossing Folder. Add this panel to the card front.

Also, which your have your machine handy, cut a large circle from the Layering Circles, approx 2 3/4" diameter in the Gold Specialty Paper.

On scraps of Sahara Sand, stamp two short bottle and one tall bottle in Sahara sand, along with two of the circular images. Fussy cut these out. and stick the two circles to the shorter bottles. Ink up the 'wish' sentiment in early espresso and stamp onto the taller bottle.

Now, stamp the bouquet onto a scrap of very vanilla card stock. The image is built up from stamping three images directly on top of each other, and using the different colours gets you your finished image. I used Merry Merlot for the flowers, Shaded Spruce for the leaves and Early Espresso for the pine cones & flower centres. Once dry, fussy cut the full bouquet out.

Now, it's time to put your focal cluster onto the card.

Start by adding the gold circle, placing the bouquet just off centre, then glue the shorter bottles flat, and add the taller bottle with dimensionals - placing these so that you cover a little of each bottle below. - TIP - it may be useful to work this out 'dry' first, getting an idea of your placement before committing with your adhesive.

I hope you have enjoyed my project today - please look at the list below and continue through the hop for lots more Christmas Card ideas and inspiration.

Here's a list of supplies I used in today's project, click on the images to head over to my online store Product List

If you are on Facebook, why not pop over and check out our community group Craft & Banter. If you have a passion for paper craft, are brilliant at baking or a super talented seamstress then we would love to see you there. We share all types of crafting, run challenges and giveaways & generally have a right good natter.

See you soon

Vickie

Xxx