This Reindeer Memories Christmas Card is a pretty easy one to make with some new products! And what’s more fun than new Stampin’ Up! products?! You can probably make an even simpler version of this card if you want to.
The card base is Garden Green, but you could have another green, white, or even Real Red. The layer is something new. Two new things, actually. I used the Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder on a piece of the new Real Red Two-Tone Cardstock. It is called Two-Tone because one side is the regular Real Red color and the other side is a slightly different shade of Real Red. It’s sort of like the Stampin’ Blends markers that come in Light and Dark. Also, this paper has a white core. Because of that, you can do certain things with this paper and the white core that you can’t do with our regular cardstock that is solid all the way through. Stampin’ Up! I believe has had some of this paper in the past but they are re-introducing it now since the closing of Close To My Heart. Stampin’ Up! is incorporating some of their great scrapbooking products.
With the Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder in the Holiday Mini Catalog in the Reindeer Days Suite Collection, you can use this and other folders with the two-tone cardstock and get a little bit of the white core breaking through. Or take a sanding tool of some kind and do very light sanding on the paper and let the white core show through. You can see in this photo a little bit of that. It just gives a little bit of a rustic look to the paper, a little bit of different texture. Before I adhered the embossed plaid layer, I wrapped around a white piece of the Petal Pink & White Combo Diagonal Trim Pack ribbon and added a separately tied bow later to the card front.
To make this card, I also used the Reindeer Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. This is one of the new products or combinations of new products that coordinate with the products we already have in the Holiday Mini Catalog. You’ll find these things online in the September Scrapbooking Brochure. This kit includes supplies to create three predesigned, two-page scrapbook spreads. For example, this Workshop Kit contains the Reindeer Memories Designer Series Paper, two-tone cardstock sheets in several colors, and a couple of sticker sheets. You can also buy packs of this two-tone paper separately or just try some out in any of these scrapbooking kits. Stampin’ Up! plans to carry all our colors in this paper in the future.
To decorate the front of this card, I used a diecut circle with the pretty border in the Spotlight on Nature Dies. To this I applied a sticker of the reindeer and Christmas tree. The diecut circle is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also colored in the plain white star on top of the tree with the Dark Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blend Marker.
The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink and cut out with this rectangular shape in the Something Fancy Dies. I didn’t want it to become any larger with a larger layer underneath the greeting, so I cut out a piece of Garden Green in the same size, cut it in half horizontally and adhered one piece just barely peeking out from the top and one from the bottom to give a little colored contrast.
As you can see, I adhered a separate bow with Mini Glue Dots on top of the ribbon strip, plus I added some Iridescent Gems on the diecut circle piece. Of course, with stickers, you can’t make multiples of cards since you don’t have multiples of the stickers, but you can use this “scrapbooking kit” to make cards, tags, or other projects. You can even make a sort of collage for the holiday and frame it. Lots of creative possibilities! These Kits also include 12″ x 12″ scrapbooking pages that are not the designer paper that make good base layouts for your scrapbook page plus very detailed instructions if you wanted to create the ideas they provide.
Hopefully, this blog post and the products I mentioned give you some inspiration for projects you can create for the holidays!