Candy Cane Season (for CCMC745)

It is candy cane season! I saw candy canes is every color and flavor in the grocery store today. What is your favorite flavor? I am a traditionalist in that I still like the peppermint best! And I stuck with the traditional red and green for my color scheme in today’s sketch challenge at Create With Connie & Mary.

Here is our sketch ~

And here is my card ~

You don’t have to go very deep into the Mini Catalog to find the sets I chose for this card. Both are found on pages 8-11 and were among the first purchases I made out of this catalog!

Details:

• Shaded Spruce Cardstock base, 11″x 4-1/4″, scored and folded at 5-1/2″, plus a scrap for pine bough
• Basic White, 4″x 4″ for stamping, and 5-1/4″x 4″ for inside
• Santa Express DSP for the under-layer, 4-3/4″x 3-1/2″
• Basic White Cardstock and Snowflake Specialty Vellum for the top layer, 4-5/8″x 3-3/8″
• Distressed Gold Specialty Paper, 4″x 1/4″ strip and a scrap for leaves
• Sweet Candy Canes Bundle and Christmas Banners Bundle for images and sentiment
• Real Red and Shaded Spruce ink pads, and Versamark Pad + Gold Emboss Powder
• Red Rhinestones

Put it together:

• Adhere the Snowflake Vellum to the Basic White layer using a small criss-cross of Stampin’ Seal on the back of the Vellum.
• Glue the Santa Express DSP to the card front at an angle.
• Glue the white/vellum layer over the DSP straight and even with the base.
• Next glue the gold strip across the center of the card.
• Stamp, crop, and glue the red and spruce candy canes in the center of the card.
• Crop a gold leaf sprig and a Shaded Spruce pine bough from the Christmas Banners Dies and glue them over the candy canes.
• Stamp the banner with Shaded Spruce, then heat emboss the sentiment inside the banner. Crop with the coordinating die and attach with Dimensionals.
• Add Red Rhinestones to finish it off.
• Stamp the inside panel as desired and glue in place.

Now click over to Create With Connie & Mary to see what the rest of the Design Team has created! What would your card look like if you were to create from this sketch?

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Product List

Sweet Candy Canes Bundle (English) [161052] $51.25	Christmas Banners Bundle (English) [159993] $50.25	Santa Express 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [159582] $12.00	Snowflake 12 X 12 (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Vellum [159832] $10.00
Basic White 8 1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [159276] $10.25	Shaded Spruce 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [146981] $9.25	Distressed Gold 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper [159237] $5.00	Real Red Classic Stampin’ Pad [147084] $8.00
Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin’ Pad [147088] $8.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $9.50	Metallics Embossing Powders [155555] $18.00	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $30.00
Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels [146924] $7.00	Stampin’ Seal [152813] $8.00	Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430] $4.25