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Welcome to April & to the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club April Christmas Challenge! I’m part of the challenge team again this year & the bonus is I’ll have a bunch of Christmas cards finished in plenty of time for Christmas this year. You’ll need to be Fan Club member but that’s easy…just click the blue link to find out how. Bet you’re wondering what the challenge theme is..I’d love to tell you but you’ll have to go see for yourself.

For my Christmas Wishes card, I used an embossing folder on the white bg, then paper pieced some strips for a faux woven bg. I used part of a box of Christmas cards I bought that are supposed to have a picture inserted so the entire back is 5×7 piece of this heavy weight Christmas print w/ little red foil accents. After I glued them, I embossed it all again.  The rest was just die cutting the holly out of green glitter card, the Wishes & backing oval out of red glitter card, then attaching a red foil frame over the bg. 

Here’s the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Have Yourself 981-03	RN Holly #1 die 5162-08D	RN Oval Stitch dies 5008D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Rectangle Stitch Frame dies 5122D
RN Wishes die 5205-05D	Staples 110# White Card Stock	DCWV Glitter Matstack	Mirror Board	VersaFine Inkpads
Cuttlebug Matelasse embossing folder 2001945

Welcome to March & to the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club March Christmas Challenge! I’m part of the challenge team again this year & the bonus is I’ll have a bunch of Christmas cards finished in plenty of time for Christmas this year. You’ll need to be Fan Club member but that’s easy…just click the blue link to find out how. Bet you’re wondering what the challenge theme is..I’d love to tell you but you’ll have to go see for yourself.

For my card, I used this cute little Reindeer image. After coloring & die cutting w/ the matching die, I put him on a tag die cut. I cut another tag out of white glitter & split it down the middle to have some show on either side. The Merry was die cut out of red glitter paper. I die cut two bows &  split the striped one to edge the white glitter one.

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

Rudolph	Reindeer die	Double Stitched Rectangles Dies	Small Bow Dies	Holiday Words dies
Pierced Rectangles dies	Tag Trio Dies	Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks	MISTI
DCWV Glitter Matstack	Staples 110# White Card Stock	X-Press It Blending Card	Pebbles Welcome Christmas	White Gelly Roll Pen

A big congrats to Joyce, the newest Featured Stamper (FS626) on Splitcoast! She has a wonderful gallery & I chose THIS to case. I really liked the tree silhouette w/ the square behind it so I kept those. But I used die cuts instead of images, added some layers here & there & made mine a Christmas card.

This is one of those “very hard to photograph” cards because of the mirror gold paper. It’s so wonderful IRL, but the camera just can’t get it. The tree, snowflake, backing layers & snowdrift hills were all cut out of mirror gold. For the snowdrift hills I also used an embossing folder to add the snow dots. The Believe part of the greeting was gold embossed & the rest was stamped w/ twilight (navy) Versaclair ink. Yep, the Misti really came in handy for that!

Here’s a look at the inside. I used the negative part of the snowflake as stencil for the gold flakes down the side.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Magic of the Season 980-09	RN Merry Christmas Lg 983-04	RN Sm. Snowflake die 5100-04D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Square Stitch dies 5005D
RN Square Stitch Frame dies 5121D	RN Winter Tree die 5170D	RN Stitched Hills dies 5173-01D	MISTI	Staples 110# White Card Stock
The Paper Studio Be Bold Be Bright pad	Gold Mirror Board	RN Mirror Gold embossing powder	Versafine Clair ink	Sizzix Snowfall Speckles 661008
Ultimate Metallic Ink