 
Welcome to a new challenge for Serendipity Stamps! The Serendipity Challenge this week is Sentiments…make a sentiment your focal point!  You can find all the details on how to play along with us at the Serendipity Stamps Challenge Blog. With each challenge we always have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player. This week’s sale: 20% off the Words and Verse Category.Good through 10/30/13.
The only tricky part about this card was the framed window. And it was really only a little tricky because I resized the opening. First, I temporarily attached the white layer on top of the red layer then I used the smaller of 2 Quickutz long rectangles to cut the opening thru both layers. Per the resizing tutorial (just click on the word above) I made it half again longer. Then I took the two layers apart and used the next larger rectangle to make the window larger on the white layer (again resizing it).
Since the focus is on the sentiment, I stamped the winter scene in black and left it uncolored. The greeting was stamped with red ink, except for the holly flourish on top. I wiped the red ink off and inked that part w/ black then added some color and a little stickles. I also added some stickles in areas on the scene. The bottom edges were cut with bracket border dies and the finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.
Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to stop by and see all of the Sentiment focus cards from the DT.
Jeanne Jachna
Marybeth Lopez
Miriam Napier
Pauline Pollington
Jenny Gropp
Vickie Zimmer
Julie Warner – you are here!
Karen AmidonÂ
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Timeless! What a gorgeous card. Beautiful design.
This is so clean looking Julie – love the layers (the double bevel frame) and that fancy edge die cut along the bottom – so much work but so worth it!
Julie I love this and your window is amazing ! Absolutely Gorgeous! Yes, I agree funny how we both used the same sentiment. You wont believe this but a year ago to the date I made almost the same card , you can look it up on my blog Winter Homestead. You and I were so on the same page . Great minds think alike! Of course yours has way more gorgeous detail but kinda scary how much the same they are. 🙂
I love the sentiment as much as you do! Great picture above and die cutting below. So elegant!
Fab die cutting on this beautiful Christmas card!
Julie- this is gorgeous!! Love the window you created and the image in black/white-perfectly accents the sentiment!! The edge die is fantastic!!
Beautiful card! I love the edge detail and that sweet image too!