A "Merry" Card and a Thank You Card

Two cards from me today.

First up for Just Us Girls "Word Week - Merry", Jingle Belles "Ornament", and Christmas Kickstart Challenge "Christmas Snippets":

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I've been trying to use up leftovers and scraps!  This card started with the scrap of navy background that had been sprayed with a shimmery white spray.  It was just the right size to use under an ornament die cut (cut out of a shimmery white cs scrap).  Using some more of the shimmery white cs scraps, I cut the word "merry" and the branch of holly.  I also cut "merry" out of some navy cs and layered them for a slight shadow effect.  I put it all together on a kraft cardbase, hanging the ornament from the "e" in "merry" with sparkly twine.

My second card is for The Paper Players "Give Thanks" challenge.  A talented friend made me some new cushion covers for the throw cushions on my couch so I wanted to make a thank you card for her that depicted what she'd made.

I stamped the couch onto decorative paper, then fussy cut it, and stamped it again onto red dp and fussy cut just the cushion, layering that over the full couch.  I stencilled a bit of pattern onto cs to ground the couch, trimmed that piece down, popped it up on fun foam on the card base, layered the couch onto it with foam tape, and stamped and die cut the sentiment (also popped up with foam tape).

Challenges:

Just Us Girls

 

Christmas Kickstart Challenge

  

Jingle Belles "Holiday Ornaments"

The Paper Players

 

Supplies for card 1:
Paper - white shimmer, navy, kraft cs
Size - A2
Accessories - PTI merry die, SSS holly ornament, Spellbinders circle die, Memory Box holly vine, white shimmer spray, white sparkly twine

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Poppy Stamps sofa, Emerald Creek thank you
Ink - various Distress inks, Archival Jet Black
Paper - scraps of decorative paper, cream cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Memory Box Texture Flourish stencil, Poppy Stamps sofa die, Spellbinders oval die, fun foam, foam tape