Vintage Yuletide Greetings

Hey everybody, happy Friday! I’m still working on Christmas projects which I do all year long. How about you… have you started on them, are you plugging away, or are you finished? I’m up on the Prickley Pear Stamps blog today with an inspiration project featuring the absolutely gorgeous Cardinals and Cardinals 2 Stamp Sets along with the coordinating Cardinal Die and the Heart Oval Insert Die. This CAS-ish vintage card is a super simple design that would be so easy to mass produce for everybody on your Christmas list.

I cut a standard A2 size side-folding card base from CutCardStock Basis 80# Natural cardstock along with layering panels from CutCardStock Brown Bag Kraft Paper and two coordinating papers from the Hot Off The Press Christmas Memories double-sided paper pack. I tore the top edge of the three layering panels and adhered them to the card base. I stamped the floral music image from the Cardinals stamp set on the left edge and the sentiment (from the Cardinals 2 stamp set) on a scrap piece of Basis Natural cardstock, both in Catherine Pooler Over Coffee ink, and cut the sentiment with the Heart Oval Insert Die. I traced around the outside edge of the oval die cut with a pencil onto a scrap piece of kraft paper, hand-cut it just inside the tracing line, and adhered it behind the die cut.

I stamped the cardinal in Memento Tuxedo Black ink on CutCardStock Basis Red cardstock and cut it with the coordinating Cardinal Die. I die cut two additional cardinals and adhered them on top of one another for a little dimension, and then adhered them to the card front. The finishing touch was adding several Eyelet Outlet small red gemstones.

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Prickley Pear Stamps products used:
Cardinals Stamp Set
Cardinals 2 Stamp Set
Cardinal Die
Heart Oval Insert Die

Other products used:
CARDSTOCK/PAPER: CutCardStock Basis Natural and Basis Red cardstock and Brown Bag Kraft paper, Hot Off The Press Christmas Memories 6×6 double-sided papers
INK: Catherine Pooler Over Coffee ink, Memento Tuxedo Black ink
DIES/PUNCHES: Kadomaru Pro Corner Rounder
ACCESSORIES: Tonic Studios 12″ Guillotine Paper Trimmer, Gina K Designs Adhesive Dot Runner, Bearly Art precision craft glue, MISTI stamp tool, Big Shot, Eyelet Outlet red gemstones

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Scrappy hugs,