Ornamental Envelopes Christmas card

Hello, I hope you are well.

Today’s card was inspired by one shown in the Stampin’ Up! August to December 2020 mini catalogue (on page 40 if you want to take a look). Stampin’ Up! have so many talented and creative people involved in creating the products and showing us how to use them so the catalogue is always a great place to get inspiration. Here’s my take on the card in question….

The one in the catalogue was green and gold and had a different sentiment and I really like both versions.

I used Pacific Point card for my base, which measures 21 x 14.5 cm, scored and folded on the long side at 10.5 cm. I then added a layer of Whisper White measuring 10 x 14 cm and cut another piece of Pacific Point card to 9.5 x 13.5 cm ready for stamping.

I stamped the baubles from the Ornamental Envelopes 3 times across the Pacific Point card with Versamark ink and allowed it to dry. This gives a lovely watermark effect and is a bit more subtle than using tone on tone ink and card.

I also stamped the baubles once with Versamark onto Whisper White card, added Silver Stampin’ Emboss powder and heat set it. I allowed this to cool before cutting out the baubles with the matching die from the Envelope Dies set. I then added them to the card front, some with glue and others with Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop them up.

I stamped the sentiment from the Tree Angle stamp set with Pacific Point ink onto Whisper White card and cut it with a Stitched Rectangle die. The die that fit the length of this sentiment was too wide so I cut it with the die twice as shown below…

I added this to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals too.

I then set about decorating the envelope and used the Envelope Dies to create a liner for my envelope from Snowflake Splendour designer series paper…

I also used one of the dies to cut a feature on the envelope flap so you can glimpse the other side of the paper…

The final touch was to add a couple of stamped images from Ornamental Envelopes on the front of the envelope with Pacific Point ink.

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s card and will take another look at your Stampin’ Up! catalogues for some cardmaking inspiration.

I’ve listed the products I’ve used for today’s card below. You can click on any of the links to visit my online Stampin’ Up! shop.

Happy crafting,

Heather x

Product List

Ornamental Envelopes Bundle [155168] £44.00	Ornamental Envelopes Photopolymer Stamp Set [153434] £16.00	Envelopes  Dies [153531] £33.00
Stitched Rectangles Dies [151820] £33.00	Tree Angle Photopolymer Stamp Set [153442] £16.00	Snowflake Splendor Designer Series Paper [153512] £10.75
Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £9.00	Pacific Point A4 Card Stock [116202] £8.25	Pacific Point Classic Stampin' Pad [147098] £7.00
Versamark Pad [102283] £8.75	Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder [109131] £5.50	Whisper White C6 Envelopes [106588] £7.00
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] £3.75