A Purple Christmas Card?

Today’s card is a combination of Feels Like Frost 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper and To Every Season Photopolymer Stamp Set.

This sparkly beauty could be a Christmas card or for any winter occasion. I don’t believe I’ve ever made a purple Christmas card before! My design inspiration came from this card sketch on Dawn Griffith’s blog. I flipped the design and added a few extra details.

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Materials and Measurements:

Night of Navy Card Stock – 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″, scored and folded at 4-1/4″,  (2) 5-1/2″x 1/2″

Purple Posy Card Stock – 5-1/2″x 4-1/4″,  2″ square

Gorgeous Grape Card Stock – 5-1/2″x 2″,  (3) 1-1/4″x 1-1/4″ squares

Silver Foil Sheet – 5-1/2″x 3/4″

Sparkle Glimmer Paper – 3-5/8″x 3-5/8″ square,  scraps for three snowflakes

Feels Like Frost DSP – (3) 1-5/8″x 1-5/8″ squares

Stitched Rectangle Dies

2″ Circle Punch or circle die

Ink Pads – Night of Navy and Gorgeous Grape

Assembly:

• Layer and glue the Gorgeous Grape, Night of Navy, and Silver Foil to the left side of the Purple Posy rectangle.
• Cut the glued layers with the largest Stitched Rectangle Die and glue to the Navy card base.
• Turn the Sparkle square to create a diamond with the top, bottom, and left corners touching the edges of the Posy rectangle, glue, and trim the extra off the right side that is hanging over the edge.
• Glue the DSP squares to the Grape squares and glue in place as shown.
• Punch the Posy square with a 2″ Circle Punch. Stamp the greeting on the circle in Night of Navy and the snowflakes from To Every Season in Gorgeous Grape. Glue in place.
• Cut three Sparkle snowflakes and glue to front.

Here is a photo of the Feels Like Frost sheet that I used. I cut the three squares to create a continuous pattern when I placed them on the card.

In person, this card is very sparkly! The photo does not do it justice. I guess you’ll have to make one to see what I mean!

For the inside, I cut another piece of Purple Posy with the same large Stitched Rectangle. Then I went into the archives and found this sentiment from (retired) Timeless Tidings and stamped it with Night of Navy. The snowflakes were some I had leftover from last year. I trimmed them to fit and glued them on with a bit of liquid glue.

What do you think? Would you make a purple Christmas card? I kind of like it!

Have a great weekend!

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