Blogger Challenge: Week 131

This week’s blogger challenge theme is, most appropriately, Christmas, so I thought it would be a good time to share the holiday card that I sent out to family and friends this year. By now, they should have arrived safely, so it should be okay to share.

Since this December has been a pretty difficult month for me both emotionally and financially, I went with a really clean and simple design, actually inspired a card I created a few weeks before (you can see it in this post). I made a few adjustments to the original design so it would be easy to mass produce and be easy to send in the mail and wouldn’t require extra postage.

I embossed a vellum panel with the QuicKutz Snowflake embossing folder. The panel is attached to the bottom of an aqua card base, keeping with my tradition of non-traditional holiday card color schemes. To cover the adhesive, I tied a piece of turquoise organdy ribbon around the cardfront at the top edge of the vellum panel. The “holiday wishes” sentiment from Papertrey Ink’s Vintage Picnic stamp set is stamped above the ribbon in Pacific Point ink. Quick and elegant! When my co-worker opened hers, she turned to me and said, "Wow, Lori, you're getting kinda good at this now, aren't you?" I guess that's some kind of endorsement--LOL!

And, for more holiday ideas, you can visit the rest of the challenge players. Links to their blogs are in the sidebar on the right.

Materials Used:
Vintage Picnic stamp set (Papertrey Ink); cardstock (Bazzill Basics); Pacific Point Classic ink (Stampin’ Up!); vellum (The Paper Company); Snowflake embossing folder (QuicKutz); ribbon (Michaels)