I called this card the Reindeer Days Circle Window Card because the center focal point is actually an opening to the designer paper image underneath. It’s almost like a shaker card without covering the hole and filling it with shaker bits. But you could easily make it a shaker card if you wanted to!
The card base is Real Red cardstock. The designer paper is the white dotted paper in the Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper. I used one of the Deckled Circles Dies to cut a hole in the paper. To make a frame, I used the next larger size Deckled Circle die to cut out a piece of Basic White cardstock plus the same smaller circle inside that one. You want that diecut piece to fit around the diecut circle on the designer paper. These dies are not available right now, so if you don’t have those, just use some other circle dies you have, perhaps the circles in the Stylish Shapes Dies.
I looked over the patterned paper in the Reindeer Days DSP, the one with the reindeer and the reindeer snowmen, and chose an area that I wanted to appear in my diecut window on the front of the card. I cut it out and positioned it so it would fit exactly right in that window and adhered it to the card base. Then I popped up the whole front part of the card with the window with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The greeting fits perfectly at the base of the card. It is in the Joyful Sayings Ephemera Pack. It’s so easy to find the right greeting in the ephemera pack and just glue it on! Plus, the Reindeer Days DSP and the Ephemera Packs are discounted now on the Last Chance list. I also added some Iridescent Foil Gems to the scene with the snowman and reindeer for a little sparkle!
Be sure to check out the Last Chance Products list as the Holiday Mini will be retiring January 6th. However, the retiring products will stay on the Last Chance list while supplies last so you might still be able to buy them longer than when they were completely gone on the retirement date.
