Christmas Card Club - Lovely as a Tree from Stampin' Up!

Our Christmas card club challenge was set by Margaret all the way down under in Sydney for this fortnight. She asked us to use the theme of Christmas trees.  Often being Mrs last minute.com I didn't read this challenge before I read the last so you can see Christmas trees also on my last club challenge using Festival of Trees , but this time I've used an old Stampin' Up! favourite Lovely as a Tree which has been in the Stampin' Up! catalogue for over a decade.

I embossed the lone fir tree top in silver and punched it out with the 2"circle punch and then 'smudged' the edge gently with smoky slate ink.  I matted it onto a scallop circle of silver foil card which I texture embossed with the decorative dots folder.  Everyday Chic washi tape made a simple background and I also added some of my lifetime supply (I ordered 5 rolls thinking it only had 4.5m per roll which in fact it has 45m per roll!) of silver thread on which I threaded sequins from the metallic assortment.

You can create all sorts of sentiments with the Alphabet rotary stamp just by rolling the letter bands to create the words you require.

A great new addition to the Stampin' Up! card stock range is the new Whisper White Thick A4 card stock in 270gsm so you can now make white card bases that stand up!

Do please pop by the other ladies in our challenge group and see their challenge offerings for this week.  You can find them all in my sidebar.

Enjoy what's left of the weekend.
Zx
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By now you're realising I'm a bit of a fan of Gorgeous Grunge.  It's such a useful set for adding texture, background and depth to your projects and is just the ticket if you don't like too much 'white' space.

I've teamed it with Label Love and used more retiring colours midnight muse and gumball green with gold.  Rather bold, but by it's softened with the watercolour wonder washi tape which I love as it's so easy to use and it suits those with OCD as you can 'cut' the ends neatly, but is also great for anyone in a hurry or who doesn't worry about straight edges as it tears for a more vintage look.

As you know I love a bit of bling and so sequins feature here along with a wee metallic clothespin/ peg.  The tea lace paper doilies are a very cost efficient embellishment at just £2.75 for 24 when you only use a half like me here they go along way for the money.

The finishing embellie is a retiring in colour dahlia adhered simply with a mini glue dot!

A simple quick and easy card!  You may also recognise the layout which I used on previous cards and then enlarged for an 8 x 8 scrapbook layout. You can see them in this stamping scene post.

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Back soon.
Zx

Happy Birthday Stampin' Up! Mixture

Stampin' Up! Boutique Blossom meets Oh Hello

 

This is a concoction of stamp sets from Stampin' Up! and colours.  Oh Hello is a set I've admired for some time and have only really started to use very recently.  I've used the colours that are coming with a new product that you might spy on this card.  My sentiment is new too and the flower you may remember from this stampingscene post which can be bought as a single stamp in clear mount.  It's called Boutique Blossom and it's available until the end of August.  It's big and bold and is easy for cutting out and then mounting the stamens from the centre onto the flower base.  

This is a bright card that's for my friend Sammy.  She loves butterflies and so I just had to add one which is silver glimmer paper coloured with a marker pen.  This means you can make your silver glimmer paper any colour you want. 

I hope you've had a great day Sammy!  Me well I've spent the day shopping with my lovely Mum and friend Moni.  New shoes all round and a fab day out!

Back soon.
Zx