Happy Holidays!

Welcome crafty friends!  Candice with you today starting my Christmas cards early and I love to create with non traditional color palettes!

I used lots of products from the Butterfly Reflections, Ink:

• Mama Elephant Yappy Woofmas stamps & coordinating dies
• Mama Elephant Snow Friends stamps & coordinating dies
• Mama Elephant Oh Kitty Tree stamps & coordinating dies
• Mama Elephant Big Happy Holiday die
• Hello Bluebird Typed Christmas stamps
• Trinity Stamps Scalloped Card Panel and Banner dies
• Sunny Studio Slimline Nature Borders dies (snowhills)

I began my slimline card with an 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 card base which is just right for your standard size envelopes.

For my background, I first die cut the scalloped panel from Bristol Smooth, heat embossed some white snow and inked with broken china and tumbled glass and adhered to the front of the card.  I then die cut 3 snowhills and adhered to the bottom.  I then die cut multiples of the Happy Holiday and inked the top layer with wilted violet and shaded lilac.

Next, I stamped all the images from the stamp sets listed above, colored them with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.  I colored a few of them with a gold pen and added some gold accents to the images.

To put the card together, I stamped the sentiment on a banner and adhered under the happy holiday with foam tape.  The rest of the images I added with either glue or foam tape to add lots of dimension. 

I hope you find some inspiration for creating some of your Christmas cards with fun colors!

Thank you so much for visiting!

Candice