So how are you coming with your holiday preparations? I am breathing a little sigh of relief tonight, as my work is just about done. We are going to be doing a little traveling this year - first a flight to Southern California to visit my dad and my sister, then a drive to San Diego to spend Christmas with my daughter and her family. I haven't posted many of my creations lately, as they have all been for presents and I don't want to ruin the surprise! But I'll be back before long, and have already begun planning some of my ideas using new products from the up-and-coming January - June 2022 Mini Catalog. And Sale-a-Bration will be back! One of the best times of the Stampin' UP! year!
So in the meantime...
I'm still having fun with Knit Together and the Knit Sweater dies. I was happy to see that the stamp is going to carry over, although the dies are retiring (get them before they are gone!). And I'm hoping there will be more dies to make cute "sweater-inspired" cards. But in the meantime, I can still create with them, and look what I've got to show you today:
My dad currently resides in a nursing home, and I'm giving him a lap quilt for Christmas. So how perfect is this "Warm Wishes" card? (Get it? 😉)
I first stamped the sweater knit image using Evening Evergreen ink on Evening Evergreen cardstock. Then I carefully lined up the dies and ran it through my Stampin' Cut & Emboss machine.
Once all the images were cut, I added a strip of Basic White cardstock to the back of the paper under the snowflakes, then mounted it to a piece of Gray Granite.
And those red trees? I simply cut a strip of Real Red cardstock with the die of the Christmas trees, then carefully inserted individual trees into the holes from the first die.
The greeting was stamped after I masked "for a Happy Christmas" (the stamp is from Best Year), then cut with a die from the Pretty Pillowbox set.
And for the inside:
This time I masked the "Warm Wishes" and just inked up the bottom section of the stamp.
And don't you love the little deer? They were cut from another of the dies in the Knit Sweater dies...so cute!
I'm wishing all my friends, family and customers a very happy holiday season!
See you next year! 😁
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