Sophisticated Sled, Christmas Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a fun Christmas card to share with you that I found on Pinterest. You can see the original card here. I had almost all of the stuff to make it. The Pinterest post didn't have a link or a name on it of who made it. So if you know who made that card please let me know so I can give them credit. Please read on to hear how I made this card.

The base of the card is a folded half-sheet of Smoky Slate card stock. It opens on the right and the fold is on the left.

I cut a 4-1/8" x 5-3/8" piece of Basic Gray card stock and a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Winter Meadow" 12" x 12" package. Before taping the DSP to the Basic Gray piece, I stamped the words from the "Sophisticated Sled" bundle using Basic Gray ink. The piece was taped to the Basic Gray piece and then that was taped to the front of the card.

The sled was done next. I die cut the runners out of Basic Gray card stock. You could use the piece you're taping to the front of the card, no one will know there's a piece missing in the middle. My piece has a circle missing in the middle. I cut what I need and put the piece back in the package to use on a card such as this. 

The body of the sled was cut from a piece of Smoky Slate card stock. I glued the body to the runners. 

Basic White card stock was used for the skates and laces. I glued the laces in place. While that was drying I die cut the silver pieces, the blades and the "greenery". I needed to cut two pieces of the "greenery". 

The blades were glued to the skates and the skates were glued together.

I took a 4" piece of black Baker's Twine and folded it in half. I set the middle of the twine on a glue dot in the middle of the upper part of the sled. I moved the bottom parts of the twine so they hung where I thought the skated would be going. Dimensionals were added to the back of the skates and they were set in place over the twine.

Next the "greenery" was glued in place on top of the twine. I tied a checkered bow from some retired ribbon. I glued the bow in place on top of the silver "greenery".  

Three pearls were colored using the dark Cherry Cobbler Blends pen and were set in place just under the middle part of the bow.

Dimensionals were added to the back of the sled and the sled was set in place on the front of the card.  And the card was done. 

Such a fun and pretty card, huh? Now you can see why I just had to make one. I'm tempted to order more of that DSP but there's SO many sheets in it that I wouldn't be able to use up. I know that for a fact because I did have two packages. So I try to talk myself to believing I should "work with what you have".  I do have plenty to keep me busy! See there, I just talked myself out of the DSP! LOL

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