Happy Holidays

This card is so "Happy" to wish you a great holiday season. And it is so easy to make. I stamped the Happy image twice, once to color and mount; the other to cut out the triangle on the tree and pop it up with a dimensional on top of the original tree image. That lovely snowflake dry embossed background is courtesy of the cuttlebug dry embossing and die cut machine. The cuttlebug is a very worthy investment for the papercrafter....get your coupon and go get you one at Micheal's or Hobby Lobby or for sure put it on your Christmas wish list.

To give the little tree some sparkle I used an SU two-way glue stick and a sprinkle of SU dazzling diamond glitter. You can give yourself some sparkle too by brushing your finger under your eyes with the left over dazzling diamond glitter that remains on your finger tips! haha. The corner accents are punched with the SU Ticket corner punch. Wrap around some ribbon and you have a very fun and happy holiday greeting card!

Recipe:

Stamp: Big on Christmas
Paper: Red and white SU cardstock
Ink: Red SU marker, black ink
Other: SU red gingham ribbon, white polka dot ribbon I bought from my friend Jacksonbelle.
Her ebay store has great service and good prices. SU dazzling diamond glitter.
Tool: I used the cuttlebug with the snowflakes embossing folder, SU ticket corner punch

You Love this card but don't have the cuttlebug machine or do not plan on purchasing it soon???

1. I have heard that you can get similar results by just using the embossing folder (which is around $5 each) with a rolling pin. Just put your paper in the embossing folder, roll over it back and forth with a rolling pin (really hard) to get the impressions in the cardstock. I read that someone suggested you spritz your cardstock with water first before rolling. But I have not tried any of this. Let me know if it works!

2. Instead of dry embossing the white piece of cardstock...just leave it plain. Or stamp an image with white ink or red ink on the white cardstock...use a snowflake stamp set.

3. Use designer paper to break up the white....like on this card by Jan Tink

I would love to see your creations!