Greetings of the Season, Take a Bow, Joyful Images Ephemera, Christmas Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a Christmas card to share with you. I found one on the internet that caught my eye. I didn't have the same images to duplicate that card so I went with what I have. You can see the original card here. Please read on to see how I made the card. I'm trying a new format out. I thought I'd list the supplies/materials needed first so you can gather them and get them ready  for when you read on to see how the card was assembled. Please let me know if you like it.

To make this card I used:

4-1/4" x 8-1/2" piece of Real Red card stock (folded in half)

4" x 4" Basic White card stock

3-1/4" x 4" piece of Real Red card stock.

2-3/4" x 3-1/2" piece of Basic White card stock.

2" x 4" Designer Series Paper (DS) from the "Take a Bow" 6" x 6" stack

Scrap piece of Basic White card stock

Real Red ink

Pool Party ink

Blending Brush

Image (stamped or die cut)

Words

Tape

Dimensionals

Embellishments

Okay, let's begin. The first thing I did was I taped the 4" x 4" Basic White piece to the inside.

The piece of DSP was taped on about 3/4" up from the bottom.

The 3-1/4" x 4" piece of Real Red card stock was taped on next. I had taken a 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" piece of copier paper (card stock will work too) and I lined up the bottom edge with the card's bottom edge. Then I taped the Real Red piece in place by lining up the top edge with top edge of the copier paper. Make sure you don't get tape on the whole piece. About 1-1/4" of the Real Red piece is exposed on the backside. This is where you do not want tape.

I cut the rectangle using the largest stitched rectangle from the "Nested Essentials" set on a 2-3/4" x 3-1/2" piece of Basic White card stock. I used Pool Party ink on my Blending Brush and scrubbed it on. I also scrubbed some on the scrap piece of Basic White for the words. I centered the rectangle on top of the Real Red rectangle and taped it in place.

The words I used are from the "Greetings of the Season" bundle and were stamped using Real Red ink. I cut them out using the second smallest circle in the "Deckled Circles" die set. 

The cute little stocking is from the "Joyful Images Ephemera" package. I set it in place using Dimensionals.

The words were set in place with Dimensionals as well.

I have been trying for a long time to get the peppermint candy embellishments from Stampin' Up! and they've been sold out. The one time they were not sold out I wasn't able to order them because I was out of town and on a computer that wasn't secure. When I got home the next day (yes, the next day) they were sold out again. I think this is an item Stampin' Up! needs to bring back next year, it's obviously very popular.  Anyway, I had some tiny polymer clay ones that I had made years ago so I thought I'd use them on my card. I'm considering making some in 4, 5 and 6mm.  They don't take long to make but it's craft fair season and this is something that I don't have time to squeeze in on my list of things I need to get done before the last two sales. But after the 16th I'll have time and I may even put some in my web store. They will look like the ones on my card except nicer. I know how to make them better than I did 10 years ago.

This was a fun card to make and I thought it was a great way to focus on the die cut stocking. Please let me know what you think of the new format.

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