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A Sentimental Christmas Reindeer Card

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A Sentimental Christmas Reindeer Card

This A Sentimental Christmas Reindeer Card turned out entirely differently than I ever could have planned! Sometimes that happens! In this case, it was finding a scrap diecut piece in my cardstock package in the right color that jumped out at me as a possible card element.v

For the first thing, in looking through the Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper I was surprised to see Christmas paper in brown! Snowflakes on Pecan Pie! Who would have thought?! Maybe it goes along with the gingerbread trend last Christmas and this year also, but to me it doesn’t look exactly like that style. I saw that brown paper as a challenge and decided to see what I could come up with. I looked around online for ideas just for a short time but the answer I found was this Pecan Pie cardstock diecut in this arch shape in the Garden Meadow Dies in the Online Exclusives.

The card base is Pecan Pie cardstock with a layer of Basic White to make the designer paper stand out a little more. The white layer goes well to bring out the white snowflakes. The opposite side of the brown snowflake paper is this vintage looking reindeer print. I really liked how that looked with the snowflake paper, so it was diecut with a circle in the Stylish Shapes dies. I planned to layer it on a larger circle in Real Red, Shaded Spruce, or Pecan Pie. But when I found the arched diecut piece and tried the reindeer diecut circle, it fit perfectly in that space under the arch. Then there was just enough space underneath for a greeting.

The greeting is stamped in Pecan Pie ink on Basic White cardstock with a stamp in the Peaceful Season Stamp Set. This 2 1/2″ x 1″ piece fits perfectly underneath the reindeer circle.

Since the greeting sounded “incomplete” on the front of the card, I went ahead and stamped “the rest of the greeting” on the inside. I added a Basic White layer over the Pecan Pie card and stamped a second greeting in Pecan Pie ink to go with what is stamped on the front of the card. Then I also added two 1/2″ strips of designer paper along the sides.

A Sentimental Christmas Reindeer Card Inside

You could also add a small red bow underneath the reindeer circle, and you could also add some gems for sparkle. I love this Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper in the Holiday Mini Catalog. If you didn’t notice, check out page 5 where the paper is shown to see that Stampin’ Up! is donating $3 for every package of this paper sold to worthy children’s causes. I love the vintage look of this paper.

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Sentimental Christmas Season’s Greetings Christmas Card

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Sentimental Christmas Season's Greetings Christmas Card

There are lots of ways that cardmaking has been made easier this season! All you need is some cardstock, designer paper, and some ephemera! Maybe some embellishments for sparkle or fun. You can’t necessarily make multiples of cards if you are using ephemera because you usually have only two or three identical pieces, but you can make an assortment of different designs of cards quickly and, especially, having fun doing it.

This card has a Garden Green cardstock base. The designer paper is Sentimental Christmas. You’ll find it on page 29 of the Holiday Mini Catalog. One special thing about this paper is that Stampin’ Up! is donating $3 for every package of Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper sold to benefit children’s literacy around the world. So while we stamp and create, we will also be helping children the world over!

The patterned paper I used on this card more or less has a border of candy canes, berries, and greenery as a border around the edge of the paper. It would be great for scrapbooking Christmas memories, but it can also be cut apart for cardmaking or other projects. That’s what I did to make several Christmas cards. Several of them will have the candy canes and decorations in the corner of the card, but from a piece in the center of the designer paper, you will only have the candy canes at the top or bottom of the card. You can see how the main design of the paper is at the bottom of my card.

In the center of the whole paper you can see very light snowflakes, so on my card, that provides a large open space for a large greeting on my card. I used the “Season’s Greetings” in gold foil that is in the Joyful Sayings Mix & Match Ephemera Pack in the Holiday Mini on page 15. With the elegant cursive font, these are especially beautiful. You do have to use Multipurpose Liquid Glue to adhere them as they are very narrow. It’s probably best to make a little puddle of glue on scrap paper and then use a toothpick to very carefully apply dots of glue in as many places as you can on the back of the greeting so that you use the tiniest amounts of glue possible! I decided to apply my greeting on a diagonal, but you could make it straight also.

I also applied three of the Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints on the card. These little peppermints have been so popular it’s been hard to keep them in stock. They are due back in stock THIS WEEK so keep checking!

A red or green ribbon could be applied on the side of the card. And putting some Wink of Stella on the berries and candy canes would be nice, too, if you wanted to add some extra things to the card. If you are one of my newsletter subscribers you saw a card made with this same paper, but the design of the paper is in the corner.

It’s a good idea to find some easy cards to make to send to lots of people on your Christmas card list and then you might also like to make some that are a little more involved for some family or special people on your list!

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Sentimental Christmas Holiday Card

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This is an easy card design to make, plus I love this Christmas paper! And with each purchase of the Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper, Stampin’ Up! will donate $3 to organizations dedicated to the future of children around the world. When we purchase this beautiful vintage-look paper, not only do we get to use it and enjoy it but we know we are helping others.

This festive patterned paper is filled with traditional holiday images: holly and berries, candles, snowflakes, candy canes, Christmas trees, and more! Fussy cut individual elements for quick accents. Or cut the lantern and candy cane paper into six pieces to make quick card fronts. This paper was hand-drawn in colored pencils for original designs you won’t find anywhere else.

To make this easy card, start with a Pretty Peacock Cardstock card base. I used two different patterns of the Sentimental Christmas Paper….the old-fashioned candles and the red striped paper. If I put a ribbon around the seam where the two papers meet, I always overlap the papers and add the ribbon before adhering to the card base. This new ribbon is the Cherry Cobbler & Gold 1/4″ Satin Ribbon. You can then tie a bow around the strip of ribbon or usually I tie a bow separately and then adhere it to the card with a Mini Glue Dot or two.

The greeting is in the Peaceful Season Stamp Set. There are many good holiday greetings in this stamp set. If you get the Peaceful Season Bundle, you can use those dies or you can use another die as I did, a stitched circle die in the Unbounded Love Dies.

To finish this card, just add a Basic White layer of cardstock inside the card and perhaps add a strip of designer series paper along the side or the bottom.

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