12 Days of Christmas--Day 3!

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Hello and welcome back to Day 3 of our 12 Days of Christmas Hop—I hope you are enjoying what we have both been sharing so far!

My project for today is a fun pull out card—or a pocket card—you can decide which name suits it best. But it is a card style that I do tend to make each year as its such an easy way to add a gift card. I have 3 teens myself and lots of teenage nieces and nephews, so gift cards are a popular gift!

I am trying out my new logo on this photo—what do you think? After 3 amazing years on the artisan team its time to start a re-brand with my new logo!

The base of this card is Old Olive and its simply folded like a standard tent style card, however, on one side you make another score mark at the 1 1/2 inch point. This folds down to create the ‘pocket’.

I added a second strip of Old Olive card stock 1 1/4 x 4 that I ran through the Snowflake Sky embossing folder. To the keep the flap down, I used the 3/4 Herringbone Ribbon from the Annual Catalogue, tied around and secured with some Linen Thread. Sometimes using wider ribbon can be tricky and I thought this was a really good use for it.

 

I wanted to use the Beary Cute Bundle for this project so I stamped out a big and little polar bear in Pebbled Path ink.

I have been using Pebbled Path quite a bit for outlining images lately. Its not quite as harsh as black.

I used my Pool Party Blend over some of the details on the Polar Bears to add a subtle bit of color and to introduce another color into the card. As you can see with the Beary Christmas DSP, its a very green card. I also colored over some of the snowflakes on the DSP with my Pool Party Blend marker (it might not show in the photo but you can see it in real life).

On the Basic White pull out part, I stamped some of the snowflakes from the stamp set in Pool Party, but I stamped them off first, so they are very faint. The sentiment is stamped in Mossy Meadow ink.

Lastly I added a few Iridescent Pearls to the pull out portion for a little bling!

Head on over to Melanie’s blog to check out her fantastic project! Just click this image below and it will take you right there!

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12 Days of Christmas--Day 5

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I love a good pocket card don’t you? For my 5th card of 12 Days of Christmas I am sharing one of my ‘go to’ card designs. I make this card style several times throughout the year as I love that you can pull out the Basic White layer and write a message, stick a gift card inside or even a flat little treat. You can use this design for any sentiment or occasion.

I started with a base of Crumb Cake card stock and you score it like a regular card except on one side, score a 1 1/4 inch piece that becomes the flap for the front. I like to round the edges on the top and flap.

I added a strip of Sweetest Christmas DSP to the flap and then adhered the entire flap down using Tear’n Tape. Wrap a length of Linen Thread around the flap to keep the card closed hence creating the pocket.

The Joyful Flurry stamp set was perfect to add to the front and pull out piece, stamping them in Crumb Cake ink. The Wonderful Snowflakes are still my favorite holiday embellishment. I love how they are iridescent and I can pop them right out—NO DIE CUTTING! Yippee! They look perfect with the Garden Green Mittens!

 

The worlds cutest mittens are from the Celebrate with Tags stamp set and die cut with the Celebrations Tags Dies (my absolute favorite die set in the JJ catty! I have used it SO MUCH!

Merry Christmas is from the same stamp set and I just trimmed it apart using paper snips. It is stamped in Sweet Sorbet—my fav red this season!

I hope you will give this card style a try some time! It is truly one of my go to designs! Don’t forget to go see what Melanie is sharing today!