Joyful Images, Greetings of the Season, Christmas Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a card to share with you that I found on the internet. You can see the original card here. I made a few changes using the materials I had. Please read on to see how the card was made.

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

I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Garden Green card stock for the layer. On top of that is a 3-7/8" x 5-1/8" piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Take a Bow" 6" x 6" stack. I taped it to the Garden Green piece and then that was taped to the front of the card.

Next I cut the tag from the "Greetings of the Season" bundle using Basic White card stock. I took some of the new red and white Baker's Twine and tied a 7" piece through the hole in the tag and a knot was tied. I just left it hang long, after making sure the ends were trimmed evenly.

The packages image from the "Joyful Images" package was taped down. Dimensionals were added to the teddy bear from that same package. I lightly set it in place, I didn't press down on it.

The words are from the "Greetings of the Season" bundle and were stamped using Real Red ink on a scrap piece of Basic White card stock. I cut them using the second smallest die in the "Stylish Shapes" set.

Before I set the word piece in place I took an 8" piece of Real Red (retired) ribbon and folded it at 2" and 4" to get that "Z" looking piece. I had never done this before so I wasn't sure how to make it hold it's place so what I did was I held the piece with one hand and slipped a couple of glue dots under the folded areas. Once I finished that I added some tape to the back and set the piece in place next to the bear. 

Dimensionals were added back to the back of the word piece and it was set in place with the right side being tucked under the bear a little.

I didn't have the peppermint candies that Stampin' Up! have in the new holiday catalog but I did have some polymer clay ones that I had made many years ago so I used them.  They got the job done! And that was it, the card was done.

I do like how this card turned out. I wasn't sure what I would be doing with all of those die cuts in the "Joyful Images" package but the more I see things coming out on the internet the more I'm glad I got it.

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