Merry Little Christmas

I had so much fun creating Christmas projects along with everyone for the Tenth Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place, there was inspiration and tutorials shared by Beccy each day and the gallery ended up being filled
with 1,026 different projects - WOW - what a month!

Anyway, the reason I mention this is two-fold, one, because it's well worth a visit to check out Beccy's projects and the gallery of entries, two, because I decided on my new favourite Christmas card design and sentiment ... I just HAD to make some ... OK, it was more than "some", I made twelve, several got posted before I thought to take a photo ...

I combined the card design I used for Day 22 - T with
the sentiment I used for Day 30 - Do what you love.

   

I have used the pre-coloured "Tree" image from the Tell It To The Trees digital stamp set (no longer available) from the Beccy’s Place store.  I combined it with the "Have yourself a Merry little Christmas" sentiment from the Christmas Blooms digital stamp set from the Beccy’s Place store.  I chose the tree image without any leaves because it reminds me of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and I think that the sentiment works perfectly with the tree and sparkling rhinestones.

I placed the tree on the image panel so that there would be space to pop a matted sentiment below it on the front of the card later.  I manually cut the image and sentiment panels, matted them with different shades of green cardstock, trimmed to size with my Perfect Layers Rulers, giving all the trees and sentiments elegant 1/16" borders.  I manually cut, scored and folded my card bases, added a touch of glue and the cards were nearly done.  A Christmas Tree is not "Christmassy" without some ornaments, so I finished them off with assorted red rhinestones.

   

*** INGREDIENTS ***

Tree - pre-coloured image from the Tell It To The Trees – digital stamp set

no longer available from the Beccy’s Place store

"Have yourself a Merry little Christmas" sentiment from the

Christmas Blooms digital stamp set from the Beccy’s Place store

My Scrap Chick - slimline card and envelope cut file

Gingerbreadand Cookies Slimline Card with Envelope

textured cardstock

300gsm smooth cardstock - to make the card bases

scoreboard and bone folder - to make the card bases

Silhouette Cameo - to cut the envelopes

I plan on using my Silhouette Cameo to cut the slimline envelopes (from the Gingerbreadand Cookies Slimline Card with Envelope set from My Scrap Chick) to make the cards look extra special.

assorted red rhinestones

OK, I confess, I ran out of red ones many cards ago, so coloured crystal clear ones with a red alcohol marker (if you do this, make sure you let them fully dry before using them ... it gets terribly messy if you don't ... don't ask me how I know ...)