Use The Brightly Gleaming Suite For Your Christmas Cards
The Brightly Gleaming Suite from Stampin’ Up! offers endless possibilities for Christmas and Holiday cards. With just a few elements from the suite, you can WOW the people on your card list.
The products in this suite are beautiful and if you are prone to the copper look, you will want to grab this one in short order. The papers feature seasonal image sand all-purpose patterns so you can create with these papers for any occasion. And, with the Gleaming Ornaments Punch Pack, it takes no time to punch a decoration.
What I like the best in this suite are the Brightly Gleaming Foil Elements. They are copper on one side and white on the other so that you can colour with the Stampin’ Blends and make them any colour.
Brightly Gleaming & Copper Elements Card Recipe
Stamps: Christmas Gleaming.
Ink: VersaMark, Crumb Cake, Pretty Peacock.
Paper: Very Vanilla Thick, Very Vanilla, Pretty Peacock, Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper (Leaves on Pretty Peacock background, Stripes and Copper Scrolls).
Accessories: Gleaming Ornaments Punch Pack, Copper Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Brightly Gleaming Foil Elements (Leaves), Watercolor Pencils (Old Olive), Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2 (Coastal Cabana), Aqua Painter.
Supplies:
- Cut Very Vanilla cs – 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″, score at 4-1/4″ and fold. Don’t forget to burnish with your bone folder, Scraps for Leaves and Holly.
- Brightly Gleaming Specialty DSP (leaves) – 5-1/4″ x 4″ and attach to card base, (stripes) 2-3/4″ x 4-1/2.
- Very Vanilla 2-1/2″ x 4-1/4″, 3-1/4″ x 2-1/2″ (leaves & holly).
- Pretty Peacock cs – 2″ x 3″, DSP (scroll) 2″ x 3″
Put It All Together
- Stamp the long ornament on Pretty Peacock cs and punch. Punch a long ornament from the scroll DSP.
- Stamp the leaves and holly 2 times on Very Vanilla cs with Crumb Cake ink. Use the Old Olive Watercolor Pencil and trace the veins in the leaves. Use the Coastal Cabana Watercolor Pencil and trace around the the holly. Take the Aqua Painter and with a tiny bit of water, brush the leaves and the holly to to make them look watercolored. Now , fussy cut them with the Paper Snips.
- Use the Embossing Buddy and wipe across the Very Vanilla Panel. This step gets rid of the static cling before embossing. Mask the “&” on the “& be Jolly this season” stamp and use VersaMark on the image. Stamp on left hand side of the panel. Sprinkle Copper embossing powder on the sentiment and heat set with Heat Tool.
- Attach the stamped panel to the striped DSP. Place the ornaments on the right overlapping the edge. Arrange leaves (2 sets) from the Brightly Gleaming Foil Elements on the top right. Attach the leaves and holly at the top of the ornaments.
- Finally, place a strip of the leaves DSP on the inside bottom. Stamp your verse, or use your own writings above the strip.
Do you need the supplies to create this card? You can order these from my ONLINE STORE. You can order the Brightly Gleaming Suite under 1 item # or you can order the items individually.
If you have questions, please, leave me a comment and I will answer you.
For more inspiration, check out this Blog Post
