Good Cheer Christmas card

Hello friends! I hope you had a lovely weekend, with at least some creative time. The boys and I went to see Toy Story 4 and everybody loved it. Afterwords, we built some lego.

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog we have a Let's get ready for Christmas theme. I am not ready for Christmas yet, and want to enjoy autumn for a while longer. But Christmas crafting, on the other hand, is always fun, and every year I enjoy digging into (and getting some new) Christmas supplies.

Don't miss the last project by our September guest designer, Anne Redfern. We are so happy that Anne could join us this month and her projects have been amazing.

I made a cream and white card for today, with some touches of gold, and quite a lot of texture. Now and then, I enjoy using only neutral colors, and it often adds extra focus on the texture, and on the different surfaces used. Here there is a mix of watercolor paper, smooth white paper, torn vellum and the shiny metallic gold.

I used the new Ho Ho Postage stamp set with the coordinating dies, from the STAMPtember release. Stamp images on white paper with Khaki ink and die cut with the coordinating dies. Both the dies and the stamps work great on their own too.

As I was photographing the previous step, I noticed Simon peeking out through the deer stamp. I thought it was pretty funny and had to take a close up.

Apply texture paste through the Lined Circles stencil and leave to dry.

When dry, place the stencil back and ink gently with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. Remove the stencil and add some ink in between the circles too.

I inked the edges of the postage stamp panels and tore a piece of vellum for each one. Glue to the vellum and then adhere to the background with foam tape.

Lately, I have reached for gold elements quite often, and here I added branches die cut from gold paper with Tim Holtz's Mini Holiday Greens set.

The detailed border was die cut with Tim's Crocheted set. I just love the fine details you get with these dies.

I added some flat-backed pearls here and there.

Here you can see the dimension created by using foam tape. It is a simple way to add interest to a card.

I hope you will join us this week in our Let's get ready for Christmas challenge. As always, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until next Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

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Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog today!  

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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