Season of Green & Gold, Greetings of the Season, Christmas Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I am going to share with you an easy Christmas card to make. Please read on to see how it was made.

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

I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Old Olive card stock for the layer. Then I cut a 3-7/8" x 5-1/8" piece of Very Vanilla card stock for the top large layer. I textured it using the "Snowflake Sky" embossing folder. I glued this piece to the old Olive piece and then I taped both of those on top of the card base.

I cut a 2-1/4" x 5" piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Season of Green & Gold" 12" x 12" package for the strip. 

On top of that strip I cut three pieces of DSP from the same package. They measure 2" x 1-1/2". I taped those to the DSP strip and then I glued that to the front of the card.

Next came the not so fun part (for me). I only purchased the DSP, not the stamp set/bundle that goes with it. I just bought the paper because I thought it was so pretty. I had too many other sets I bought so I had to draw the line somewhere. Anyway, I had to fussy cut my images. There's a sheet with the pines and leaves. I know the bundle has dies that cut these out. It didn't take long to cut them out but I particularly didn't enjoy cutting the pine branches one out. And just before I was ready to put the pieces on top of the card to see where they'd look best I noticed I had cut two of the dark green ones. UGH!  I actually said "UGH"! So I had to cut another one out but this time using the right colored one. 

Then came the words. I found a card on Pinterest that had the word piece on it that I really liked. So I went with that for my card. You can see that card here. Her card is cute too! I sued the "Greetings of the Season" bundle. I stamped the "Merry" using Garden Green ink. I punched it out using the 1-3/4" punch. I made sure the word was on the upper part of the circle. Then taking a 3/4" piece of Very Vanilla card stock I stamped the "Christmas" using Real Red ink.  I snipped the ends about 1/4" from the beginning and end of the word. 

Now I was ready to assemble the rest of the card. I added a little bit of tape to the center of the card. Then I added a little tape to each of the fussy cut images. I added the tape closer to the stem area. I set them in place on the front of the card. I didn't press down on them in case I needed to move them. 

Dimensionals were added to the back of the circle. Then I added three Dimensionals to the front of the circle where the "Christmas" would be going. I set the "Christmas" in place. Then I removed the backing on the circle and I set that in place on top of the greenery. I slid a one of them over a bit before I pressed down on the pieces.

I had some gold "Blooming Pearls" in my stash and I set three of them on my card and the card was done.

This was actually a fun card to make. I love all the layers and I do like how the piece looks.

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