It's Done....

My Christmas card is designed and finished! Yay! Now all I have to do is make 50 of them! Designing is the hard part not the assembly so that's what I'll be working on these next few days and then my goal is to get a great family picture. My friend is taking our picture this year, outdoors, so I'm very excited about that. We always go to a portrait studio and it seems that everyone I know goes to the same one, so everyone's picture looks the same. Not this year - Ha!


I'm not sure what the technique for this card is called, but it was demonstrated to all of us at the Fall Fest a couple of Saturday's ago and I fell in love with the concept. I'm sorry, I don't know what the woman's name was, I do know she was from Canada, but if anyone out there knows her name, I would love to give her credit for this great technique! Her name is Judi Szyndrowski - Thank you Rhonda :)



Here's the card...





Stamps- Holiday Trinkets, Many Merry Messages

Paper- Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red, Ski Slope DSP

Ink- Old Olive, Baja Breeze

Miscellaneous- Riding Hood Red grosgrain striped ribbon, silver brad, slit punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, Basket & Blooms Bigz XL die, white gel pen



I love this centerpiece. This came from a card I made at Diana Gibb's 10/10/20 Christmas card class last month. The best thing is that the outer piece comes from the Big Shot!

Well, I did a little tutorial of how to make this card. Hopefully you can figure it out and make one yourself. Let me know if you have any questions...

1. You'll cut a piece of cardstock at 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" and fold in half.


2. With your slit punch, you'll start at one end and start punching. I put the punch so that the outer edge of the punch lines up with the edge of the cardstock (approximately 1/4") and then I did the same thing on the opposite end so that when I start punching accross, I can eyeball where the last punch should be (Does this make sense???)


3. Then, you'll fold in this portion (back towards the inside of the card)4. You'll get a 5 1/2" x 1" piece of cardstock and insert it into this fold and adhere it to the inside of the card
   

Here's what the backside will look like:


5. Lastly, you'll cut a piece of designer series paper at 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" and adhere it to the
back and this will cover up what you've done

I hope that I explained this well enough for you to duplicate. Have fun!

Talk soon.