Sophisticated Sled, Fun Fold, Christmas Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. I got a new stamp set in the mail on Friday and finally had time to play with it. I found a card on the internet that I thought would be fun to make. What caught my eye on this card was the wreath. It's a "special fold".  You can see the original card here. I don't usually post Christmas cards in July. Please read on to see how I made this card.

The base of the card is a folded half-sheet of Basic White card stock. Once cut in half on the 8-1/2" side it measured 4-1/4" x 11". It opens on the right and the fold is on the left.

I took the wreath die from the "Sophisticated Sled" bundle and I set it on the right side of the card front. I die cut the wreath but not all the way. Now I think I would do this part a little differently. I would cut the piece from the top and bottom at 2-1/8" from the right edge, cutting up and down about 1" to start with.  Then I'd set the wreath die on top so I could see how much of the wreath needs to be left. Then I'd cut the wreath. Once that is done I'd cut at the 3-1/8" cuts until they touch the wreath and remove the pieces. What I had done was I set the wreath on the front, die cut it and then cut to the wreath piece. I didn't measure, the video didn't give any measurements for that so I just went for it. In the future I will cut what I need to cut first and then the wreath and then cut the remaining pieces off.   I forgot to mention, you may want to practice on some scrap paper to know how far to turn the handle on your cutting machine to know when you've reached the 3/4 point of the die. I have the new machine and the die went through so I couldn't see it on the left and it came out on the right so I could see the die and about 1/16" white beyond the inside of the die. 

The layers on the left side were cut as follows. The Cherry Cobbler piece measures 2-7/8" x 3-3/4" and the Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Perennial Lavender" 12" x 12" package. I didn't have any Christmas DSP so I worked with what I had. I taped the DSP to the Cherry Cobbler piece and that was taped to the left side of the card. 

Next I did my stamping. I stamped the wreath from the same "Sophisticated Sled" bundle and I stamped the words from the same set. Both were stamped on a piece of Basic White card stock. I cut the words using a die from the "Cheerful Daisies" bundle. 

The wreath was colored in using Blends pens. I used light Cherry Cobbler, light Old Olive, dark Granny Apple Green and light Mossy Meadow.  The wreath was glued in place on top of the partially cut out wreath on the front of the card. 

The bow is from the same set. I had to hunt for it. At first I was going to leave the wreath without it because I didn't see a bow stamp in the bundle. But there it was on top of a hanging bough. It just needed to be fussy cut from the bough.  I colored it in using my light Cherry Cobbler Blends pen and then added shadowing using the dark Blends pen. I colored the leaf with the light Mossy Meadow Blends pen. And you now have a bow! I'm actually editing this part of my post because I did not have a bow and for the life of me I couldn't see it in the set until I REALLY looked at the set and there it was! Sharing that with you in the event you didn't see it either. But you probably did!

I cut a 4" x 2-1/4" piece of Basic White card stock that I textured using the "Distressed Tile" embossing folder. I glued this to the inside of the card. I love how this looks.

The sled parts were cut next. Pecan Pie card stock was used on the card in the pic. I had originally used Crumb Cake but it was too light. Instead of scrapping it I used a blending brush and some Pecan Pie ink and scrubbed on the color. It looked nice so I will use it on another card. But Pecan Pie card stock looks SO much better than Crumb Cake. Well, it does against this DSP anyway. I used Basic Black for the frame of the sled. I glued the top part of the sled across the "bar" that was cut in the frame. Then I ran some glue along the outside lines of the frame and a dot on each spot where the "wooden" part would be touching it. Dimensionals were added to the back and the piece was set in place on the front of the card.

I cut a 1-1/8" x 1-1/4" piece of Cherry Cobbler card stock and taped it to the back of the word piece. I set it in place with a Dimensional on the left and a little bit of glue on the right. And that was it for my card.

The original card added some linen thread and a stamped bow on the wreath. My set didn't come with the bow so the designer of this card must have gotten it from a different set. I am going to leave mine the way it is for now. I may add some Wink of Stella to the berries in the wreath or maybe some red rhinestone.  It just looks like it needs something more. Maybe I'll find a small wreath stamp in my old sets.  But for now it's going to look like this.

This was a fun card to make. I love this sled. The set also comes with skates and that's why I wanted to get it. 

Thank you SO much for taking your time to stop in and see today's (early) Christmas card,
Wanda