Stampin’ Up! I’m Wild About Christmas Happiness!

Morning’, y’all…I’m not even going to say my normal thing about it being Monday.  You know it’s Monday and I know it’s Monday.  So…yea.  It’s Monday.

If you were able to join me last night on Facebook, I appreciate you taking some time with me on your Sunday!  If not, then here’s a link to the video on YouTube in case you want to take a peek.

This card came about at the request of my mom.  She’s got a friend who’ lived in the mountains for a long time and is having to move to Arizona to be closer to their children.  And she’s not feeling very happy about the move!  So…the request was for a mountainy theme card.

Smack in my wheelhouse!

One of the new stamp sets in the 2017 Holiday catalog is called Christmas Happiness.  

If you know me at all, you know that this set caught my eye right away.  Yes – pine boughs.  Pine Cones.  Add in Christmas lights – and you’ve got me!

But I didn’t need a Christmas card – I needed a you’re-going-away-you’ll-be-missed-and-I-wish-you-the-best card.  So…I pulled in a little help from the Wild About Flowers stamp set.  Add in some plaid paper from the new Merry Little Christmas DSP and this is what I came up with.  Take a look-see:

My design is inspired by the sketch challenge at MFT Card Challenges – I just turned it on end!

And I also played along with the theme challenge at The Paper Players.

I started with a piece of the gorgeous plaid paper from Merry Little Christmas and matted it on a piece of Basic Black for the card front.

The middle panel is a piece of Whisper White – first I cut the angle in it with my Stampin’ Trimmer.  Then I used the new Ticket Tear border punch to add the scallops.  I cut a slightly larger mat of Basic Black – and set it aside until I needed it.

I started decorating the panel using the wonderful pine bough images in the Christmas Happiness stamp set.  I stamped it once in Old Olive and a second time in Always Artichoke.

The sentiment, from Wild About Flowers, is stamped in Basic Black Archival Ink.  Be sure to let this ink dry, y’all.  When you think it’s dry – give it another minute. Just sayin’!

Then I used some Liquid Glue to adhere the panel to it’s Basic Black mat.  To make the two horizontal strips of the sketch, I first added a piece of Old Olive 3/8″ Mini Chevron Ribbon – securing it in the back with tape.  And I used the new (not yet available!) Jute Twine – wrapping it around the panel twice and securing it in back – for the second element.

I stamped the two larger pine cone outline images from Christmas Happiness in Basic Black Archival Ink on Whisper White.  Then I used the second – fill in – image and stamped the larger cone in Early Espresso and the smaller in Soft Suede. Then I fussy cut them.

I used Liquid Glue to adhere the larger pinecone to the card front. then popped the smaller on with a Stampin’ Dimensional.  I also added one of the new Year of Cheer Embellishments in gold using a Glue Dot and a dab of Liquid Glue.  Over top is a bow tied with Jute Twine and adhered with a Glue Dot.

 

I added one Old Olive Enamel Shape by the sentiment – and that was it for the card front!

On the inside, I added a second sentiment from Wild About Flowers in Basic Black Archival Ink on a piece of Whisper White.  Across the bottom, I added another couple of Christmas Happiness pine boughs in Old Olive and the smaller pine cone in Basic Black Archival Ink and Soft Suede.

I Fast Fuse’d the panel to a Basic Black mat and into my Thick Whisper White card base, popped the card front on with Stampin’ Dimensionals and the card was done!

My Whisper White Medium Envelope got more Christmas Happiness pine boughs and pine cone on the front…

…and a little more Merry Little Christmas DSP on the envelope flap.

Et Voila!  I’m already loving this set and doing little dances to the stamp-fairies to make it carryover!!  The pine cone images are really just perfect – and the pine bough is, too.  Can’t wait to make a Christmas card with it – and add some gold lights amidst the boughs!  Hope you like!

TTFN

Mary  

P.S.  If you’ve been wondering if I’ll be doing a 2017 Holiday Catalog Share – the answer is yes!  I’m working up the details now and will be announcing them later this week!! 🙂

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