Snowy Wonder, Snowy Scenes, Christmas Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a Christmas card to share with you. Please read on to see how it was made.

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Basic White card stock. I chose Basic White because it's less expensive than colored card stock. You can use a half-sheet of Pool Party card stock and add Basic White to the inside if you wish. 

I took a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Basic White card stock and textured it using the "Snowflake Sky" embossing folder. I glued it to the Pool Party piece.

Next I took a piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Snowy Scenes" 12" x 12" package. I chose the houses because I thought it was one that would be the most difficult in the package to deal with. I needed to challenge myself to use it. I decided to do double corner fold on the DSP. To do this you will need to mark the piece 2-1/2" up from the bottom (on the right edge) to find center.  From there you will need to mark 1-3/4" to the inside of the piece. Now just snip from the edge to the 1-3/4" mark. I like to score my corner pieces before I fold them because I have had trouble getting them straight and even. Scoring them helps to prevent that.  Once the corners were folded back I glued them in place. You can tape them too but I preferred to use glue so I would know they would stay down. Then I glued the piece of DSP to the Basic White textured piece.

The house in the globe is from the same package of DSP. I fussy cut it. The words are from the "Snowy Wonder" bundle and were stamped using Early Espresso ink. I had set mine up in the Stamparatus (retired) and I stamped it twice because the orange on the image didn't like to accept the ink as well as I had hoped it would. Dimensionals were added to the back and the piece was set in place on the front of the card. I centered it as much as I could by eyeing it.

This was a very fun, quick and easy card to make. I like how it turned out and I was SO glad I could turn my least favorite DSP in the package into a nice looking card. Now I want to use that same DSP to make more of these. Though there's only 6 full house globes in the package.

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