Hello! It’s time for one last challenge for the month of May at CAS Colours & Sketches. This time it’s a very simple sketch that puts focus on the sentiment.
After looking through my stamps and dies, I chose to go out of season and make a Christmas card, splitting up the “Merry Christmas” sentiment with a die and a stamp. I cut the “merry” twice from red cardstock so that I could stack the two diecuts for dimension. After I placed them on the card front, I stamped the word “Christmas”. It’s actually from a stamp that says “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” but I was able to ink up just the one word. I like the contrast of the curly, scripty “merry” and the simple, clean lines of “Christmas”. I chose linen textured cardstock for the card front to give some subtle visual interest (which unfortunately is probably too subtle to see in the photo). For the embellishments, I chose some shiny star-shaped brads that I’ve had for years; I didn’t have enough gold or silver ones so I used copper. I used dimensional adhesive to attach the card front to the card base, partly for a little extra interest and partly to accommodate the prongs of the brads. I considered using a green card base to bring out more of that color, but the card didn’t look as CAS as with a white base.
Be sure to check out what the rest of the CC&S Design Team has done with this sketch – they’ve made some awesome cards! Then give it a try yourself. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, June 3 to link your card at the challenge site. Thanks for stopping by today!
Supplies:
Stamp: Merry Messages (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Solar White, Solar White Classic Linen (Neenah); Real Red (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Emerald Envy (SU)
Other: Merry Script die (Mama Elephant); star brads (The Paper Studio)
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Wonderful card, Patricia! Love everything about it – the colors, the shine from the brads!