This Real Red Card For a Friend was made to demonstrate how you can make a card out of Christmas paper for another occasion! The red and white striped designer paper on this card is in the A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper. It’s on the Last Chance List now, discounted 30%! It is called a specialty paper because it has lots of precut images and frames to use for making Christmas cards, plus three sheets of designer paper. The good thing is, the “other side” of the holiday design papers are all-purpose designs like this stripe that you can use any time! If you didn’t use up all the Christmas paper in this package, turn it over and check out the designs you can use right now!
I love Real Red so this card was fun to make with a Real Red card base to go with the Real Red and White striped designer paper. Real Red has probably always been my favorite Stampin’ Up! color because it’s the perfect red!
The central panel is made with the Countryside Corners Dies. Basic White is layered on a larger diecut of Real Red. The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink from the Mixed Labels Stamp Set, one of the new stamp sets released this week in the Online Exclusives. I stamped it up a little high so I would have room to add some flowers on the bottom half.
I found these flowers and foliage in the Fully Flowering Ephemera Pack. You will find this on page 19 in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. The flowers are just a black outline piece so I colored it with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. I used Real Red on the flowers and Old Olive and Granny Apple Green on the leaves. The other two foliage pieces are in the ephemera pack. The flowers are popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
For a little embellishment, I used a retired Real Red ribbon and Iridescent Pearls.
Check out the “other sides” of some of your designer series papers and see what else you can use!
