Christmas in July

 

Welcome

Christmas in July seems to be everywhere of late, so I decided to make a very simple card to get my holiday creating started.  I guess it's never to early to begin!!

This card would be a simple one to recreate especially if you are doing multiples.

I dug into my stash of inked papers and this is what I came up with.  

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I found this piece of inked paper in my stash.  I love the colour blends, it reminded me of a cozy sweater.  I made it while playing with my Gelli Plate.  I always keep extra paper nearby to roll off my brayer when inking the plate and this was one of those roll off sheets.  Like I said in a previous post, use your roll offs for creating backgrounds.  For this one I used my Distress Oxide inks (Broken China, Wilted Violet, Seedless Preserves)
• I took the inked panel and die-cut it using the Nordic Winter die from Tim Holtz.
• I glued that onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a white card base.
• Using a leftover strip of white cardstock, I stamped the sentiment from Paper Smooches in my Misti and then pop dotted it over the die-cut background.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- MID WAY TO CHRISTMAS

Shopping Our Stash- CHRISTMAS IN JULY

The Male Room- CHRISTMAS IN JULY

Supplies

Stamps- Holiday Cheer (Paper Smooches)

Inks- Distress Oxides (colours listed above); Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ontario)

Accessories and Tools- Nordic Winter die (TH); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); brayer; 

Spellbinder Platinum die cutting machine; Nuvo glue; pop dots