Seasonal Tag

Inspiration: Colour Inkspiration #156 + Try Stampin’ on Tuesday #634

I wanted to make a card with the Simple Vintage 'Tis the Season collection from Simple Stories before putting it away, and I realized the colours from the Colour Inkspiration challenge were a good fit for this collection. For the design, I drew inspiration from the Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch.

I picked the Ho Ho Ho tag since this can work as a French or English card, and I placed it over a striped circle and a floral circle. I made sure to pick one of the paper that had black in it so that colour from the combo would be showing on the card. I used a polka dot branding strip for the strip at the bottom, and I recycled a little half-circle scrap I had on my desk to fill in the empty space at the top of the cardstock.

The background cardstock came from the pile of white cardstock I had embossed when I was going through my stash and deciding which embossing folders to keep or give away. I can't remember if that one stayed or went, but I was liking the brick wall look behind my papers. Having this embossed piece ready also sped up the creation process.

Once the pieces from the sketch were in place, I went through the Bits & Pieces images and I picked a green snowflake for the top of the card, and a black and white heart, a 25 cents image and a threaded button for a cluster at the bottom. I added enamel dots to the tag and heart and a decorative brad to make it an uneven number, and I stapled the little half-circle in place. I also added a green jumbo eyelet to the top of the tag.

I matted my card front with the Spruce paper from the Basics kit, which I mounted on a Thick Basic White card base. I picked a black envelope to match and added a cut-apart tag for the address block, and I used another branding strip at the bottom of the envelope for added colour. 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies
Cardstock: Thick Basic White (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers, Basics Kit, Enamel Dots, Decorative Brads, Bits & Pieces,
Cardstock Stickers: Simple Vintage 'Tis the Season (Simple Stories)
Dies: Cross-Stitched Circle Stackables (Lawn Fawn)
Accessories: Jumbo Eyelets (We R Memory Makers); Mini Stapler, Stampin' Dimensionals, Circle Punch,
Brick Wall Embossing Folder (Stampin' Up!); A2 Midnight Black Envelope (Envelopes.com)

 

Comments

[Dena Hughes]

Fabulous rich, deep color on your card. I love the use of texture and bold designed papers/ sentiment. Your project link on the TSOT site kept taking me back, so I had to to a search for your web site. Worth it :-) Thank you so much for joining the challenge at Try Stampin' On Tuesday.

[Donna K Scholz]

Cindy, what a fun holiday card with that ho-ho-ho sentiment! Placing the sentiment on the plaid tag with the circle embellishments was quite inspired!! Thank you for sharing your card and creative talents with us at TSOT!!! -Donna