Hello folks! Hope you all had a very blessed Thanksgiving this year with family and friends. Right now, I'm so thankful that it's all over and I'm feeling more like myself. I came down with an intestinal flu bug that wiped me out last Monday. That means it's been a week, and I'm still worn out and barely getting anything done at all. I was working on a design before this all happened and decided I'd share this with you. Since I can't decide which one I prefer, you get both versions. Then you get to decide which you like better. OK?
The set I used here is A Child is Born. I really love the simplicity of this set! I've used this set several times playing around and it just keeps calling me back again and again. Looking at the picture of the card, the images remind me of a snow globe because of the placement of the sentiment. Hmm, just more ideas floating here. I think I have an old snow globe stamp from a good number of years ago. I'll have to get it out and see if they work together. Oops. Sorry for getting off track here. Let's get on with the design...
The 'family' is stamped onto the largest circle of the Stylish Shapes Dies. It's cut from Basic White cardstock and then stamped with Secret Sea ink.
To frame this, I used the 2nd largest circle dies from the Spotlight on Nature set. It has a pretty eyelet design around the circle that just barely showed behind the white layer. This layer is die-cut from the Peaceful Garden Glimmer Specialty Paper in the darkest color. When I hold the finished card, this sparkles so pretty, but the camera just doesn't do it justice. These were attached together using Tombow Liquid Glue.
The next step is to make the card base. Basic White cardstock was used here. It's cut at 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" and folded in half. There is a Basic White layer that measures 5 1/4" x 4" that the background is built on.
The pretty DSP that was used is from the Peaceful Garden DSP. I already had a strip of the starry print cut that was 1 1/2" wide. This was cut to two 3 3/4" lengths for the design. The center 'cloudy' layer measures 1 3/4" x 3 3/4" to fit into the design. The three strips were positioned and attached to the Basic White layering piece using the Liquid Glue.
The white layer with the strips attached was then layered onto the folded card base. Dimensionals were used for this to give it added definition.
Next the main image was added to the center of the design. It was attached with Dimensionals.
The sentiment comes from the same set. It's stamped on a 1/2" strip of Basic White using Secret Sea ink. It was trimmed and the ends were flagged. A skinny strip of Dimensionals were added along the center of the strip. Then it was attached over the bottom edge of the circles.
Silver and White Sheer Ribbon was tied into a bow accent. This was attached at the top of the circle with Mini Glue Dots to hold in place.
Lastly, three small Iridescent Pearls Basic Jewels were sprinkled on the design for a lovely accent.
And that's the first one done. I really liked the design and thought it would make sense to make another one right away to build up my Christmas card stash. Well, that's when things started changing a little here and there.
The layers were again from the Peaceful Garden DSP pack. While looking through the papers, this leafy print really called to me. I thought I'd see how this went with the design. To me, it really worked nicely. This time, there was a 1 1/4" strip left over from another project. This was trimmed to 3 3/4" long twice for the top and bottom layers. This made the center opening wider, so a piece was cut at 2 7/16" to fit. (2 1/2" was just a smidgeon too wide to fit so I adjusted it. You could really use 2 3/8" to fit too.) These layers were attached to the Basic White layer with Liquid Glue.
So, you need to tell me what you think. I really love this design and think I'd like to make more to send out this year. Do I make more of the first or second card? Use the starry print or the leafy print? Have the layers closer in size like the 1st card or have the center layer wider as in the 2nd card? Oh dear, so many choices and decisions. Please help and share your input with me! Leave me a comment on which one you prefer. I'm looking forward to hearing what you think.
Thanks for sharing some precious time with me. I'm so blessed that you do. I always appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment too!
Happy stamping and creating,
Sharon
So I like both but th starry night DSP seems to fit the "snow globe" look better. I am also into very balanced cards so personnally the first car with the equal thirds calls to me more. The embellishments don't get lost in the stars as much as the leafy print. BUT, both are very good - just a matter of taste.
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