It is December, if you can believe it, and December means Christmas cards like this Take a Bow Bells Christmas Card. This is a basic card design so it would be pretty easy to duplicate if you wanted to make multiples. The only thing that would prevent that would be the ephemera piece I placed on the front of the card. You could omit any image there and only have a greeting, or you could stamp an image instead.
The card base is Real Red, one of the colors in the Take a Bow 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. This paper is so great for the holidays, but there’s no reason why you couldn’t use many of the patterns for any time of year. Its 6″ x 6″ size means it’s a little easier to use that the large 12″ x 12″ sheets of paper. This paper is part of the Take a Bow Bundle if you would like the dies with which to make bows for your holiday packages or any gifts throughout the year.
For this card, I used a piece of the red, white, and green diagonally striped paper cut at 4″ x 5 1/4″ for the first layer on the card. I added a strip of the white polka dot paper to the side. It is cut at 5 1/4″ x 1 1/2″. Usually we line it up with the left edge of the designer paper, but sometimes I move it over to the right so that a little bit of the designer paper shows on the left side, too.
Before adhering the designer papers to the card, I wrapped around a piece of white ribbon in the Petal Pink & White 1/4″ Diagonal Trim Combo Pack. I tied a separate bow and adhered it with a Mini Glue Dot on the back. I usually also like to place a glue dot underneath the ribbon underneath the bow to hold everything in place.
The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink on Basic White cardstock using one of the greetings in the Peaceful Season Stamp Set. I found a die in the Unbounded Love Dies that I thought worked perfectly to fit the greeting plus add something special to the card. It is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The ephemera piece of bells and ribbon is found in the Joyful Images Ephemera Pack in the Holiday Mini Catalog. It was just laying there on my table begging to be used on a card. It is also popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
If you start looking for Christmas card ideas that aren’t fussy, you can try out something like this card! It looks festive, it’s easy to make, and if you like, you can jazz it up even more for something fancier.
Special Note: Check back tomorrow, December 3, for three new designer papers….well, they are popular papers we had previously but have been re-colored!! If you didn’t own them then, they will be new to you! Also, we will all see the Last Chance List for both catalogs and I’ll explain the new category. Check back tomorrow for sure!!