May Christmas cards: Fa la la

I’m back with my May Christmas cards, and I made it before the last day of the month. Amazing! I had an idea of what I wanted to make this month, but once I got out the stamps and started planning, of course it morphed into something else. Here is the end result:

Since it was a fairly simple design, I ended up making eleven cards (an odd number, I know, but it was ten plus my practice one). While I’m not a fan of mass producing cards, this design worked pretty well for an assembly line. I did all the stamping, die cutting, embossing, and spritzing, and then I just needed to assemble the pieces and embellish the cards.

The background of the cards is Toffee card stock (Taylored Expressions) embossed with the Pinewood Planks embossing folder (Stampin’ Up!). But before I embossed each panel I rubbed the Toffee ink pad over the raised side of the folder. The ink really helps the woodgrain texture stand out. I also spritzed each panel with Peeled Paint Distress Spritz (Ranger) to add a little shimmer. When they were dry I adhered each panel to a white card base.

For the focal image, I stamped “fa la la” from Big on Christmas (Concord & 9th) with Pear ink (Taylored Expressions) on white card stock. I die cut it with an Elongated Oval Blanket Stitched die (Pinkfresh), which was the perfect size and shape. Using foam tape I attached the ovals to the card bases.

To embellish each card I added a snippet of burlap trim and green velvet trim in the upper left corner. I used my Tiny Attacher (Tim Holtz) to staple the trims. I love the extra texture and detail from the trims and even the staple. I wanted a little pop of another color, so I added three red sequins on each card.

I didn’t take a picture, but inside the card is stamped “… la la, la la la la” and “merry Christmas.” I’m happy with how these cards turned out even though it’s completely different from what I had in mind. 

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