Hi, crafty friends! I have a Christmas card to share today. To be honest, I’m still waiting for summer to arrive, I feel we were definitely cheated this year. We had a couple of weeks in June with good weather, but it’s been pretty dreary since. The sun is actually peeking out today, though, it’s a nice change from the rain.

Small images in stamp sets often get neglected, but they’re so fun to create backgrounds from, and that’s exactly what I’ve done with this candy cane image from the Merry Christmouse stamp set from Streamside Studios. I did simple coloring and cropped down the panel, before mounting it onto a top fold A2 card base.

Using a die from Kort & Godt, I created my sentiment from gold glitter cardstock, with three extra layers of white die cuts behind for dimension. The sentiment kind of got lost against my busy background, though. Vellum to the rescue. I cut a strip that was the perfect height for my sentiment and added some detail using a stitched border die from Lawn Fawn. I added my die cut letters on top, popped up the vellum panel and finished off with a few gold gems from Kort & Godt.

Super simple color palette today.