The Paper Players have the perfect color combination for holiday cards:
Recently, Altenew notified me that I had reward points that ought to be used. It didn't take long for me to order their Festive Greenery 3D Embossing Folder and Stencil set. It seemed like the perfect time to break it out, and after playing with some possibilities I ended up with two cards.
This card is pretty much the way Altenew shows it in the layering stencil guide. I use Simon Says Pawsitively Saturated Cherry ink for the berries and two new Pinkfresh Studio ink colors: Spruce Tips and Lush Forest. I trimmed the edges so I could add a thin gold frame before adding it to a red cardbase.
The sentiment is a prefoiled one from Pinkfresh, Foiled Sentiments 4 Holiday which I adhered with dimensional tape. I added just three gold pearls as a final accent.
For this card, I embossed Evergreen cardstock from Concord & 9th. I wasn't sure how it would work, but I lined up the first stencil for the berries and ran a VersaMark clear embossing pad across the berries. Then I sprinkled some Zing Red Glitter embossing powder on the berries and heat set them. Aside from red glitter on the desk and on me, it worked out great.
It sometimes happens that a mistake is the first step in creating a card with a different design. I over-trimmed the long edges of the panel but didn't want to cut it down any more. In my stash where I keep folded cards I didn't end up using for a project I found one with an off-set front panel. It worked out perfectly for the embossed panel to which I again added a narrow gold frame. The sentiment is the same style as the one above, but this one I gold foiled on black cardstock which I liked much better for this card than the versions on white cardstock.
This card was finished yesterday, but it gets dark so quickly now that I had to wait until this morning to photograph it. Thus I am getting these into the challenge just in the nick of time.
I'll be sending another card over to Darnell's NBUS Challenge. Another new item used (rather quickly this time!)
