Peace to You Christmas Card

Greetings on this lovely day!  My sister made it here safely and we've been chatting about everything under the sun for the last bunch of hours.  Dinner is out of the way, everything is cleaned up, and now we're just chilling.  So I thought I'd quick get this card posted for you.  It's a clean and simple look that seemed perfect for this stamp set.  This set really appealed to me as soon as I saw it in the July-December Mini Catalog.  It wasn't the first or second set I bought, but it was right up there near the beginning of that initial spending spree.  Oh dear, did I just admit to going on a spending spree?  No, I'm sure you must have mis-heard me?  😉😏

Here's the Peace to You set shown with the two cards I made right away.  It's too bad that there is not a die set to go along with this, but I managed to make do without one.  I liked the idea of pairing Very Vanilla with Evening Evergreen together on this card but keeping it very clean looking.

The card starts out with a Very Vanilla card base that measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", scored at 4 1/4" and folded in half.  The first layer is 5 1/4" x 4" of Evening Evergreen cardstock.  

The next layer is Very Vanilla again that measures 5 1/8" x 3 7/8".  This gives just a skinny band of color under the Very Vanilla as an accent.  On one of the cards, I embossed this Very Vanilla layer, but on the other one I left it plain.  Either way it works out nicely.

The Very Vanilla layer that is stamped on measures 4 1/8" x 3 1/8".  I set up the stamp on the Stamparatus to be positioned near the top and centered between the sides.  The church was stamped with Evening Evergreen ink at least three times to get good coverage.  Anytime you have a large fairly solid stamp, it really pays to set it up on the Stamparatus so you can do repeated stampings. 

After the church was stamped, I used the other grid plate and stamped the sentiment which is from the Peace to You set also.  It's stamped near the bottom of the layer and centered.  The stamped layer is attached to the card front with Dimensionals to give it some definition. 

For a pretty accent, a small bow was made from the 3/8" Open Weave Ribbon in Evening Evergreen.   It's attached with Mini Glue Dots right under the church doors.  Two of the Gold Holly Leaves are tucked in under the bow and attached with Mini Glue Dots also.

That's it for tonight.  Connie and I need to get back to chatting and then decide what we're going to start making tomorrow.  Can't wait!!  Hope this doesn't mean I'll be thinking about stamping instead of sleeping tonight.  LOL

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Have fun dreaming your creative dreams tonight!

Sharon