Spruced Up for CCMC731

Hello, September! We have a sketch challenge at Create With Connie & Mary today. I thought I’d be bringing out the fall items for the first day of September. But I ended up with a holiday card ~ a non-traditional holiday card, at that! I would call this a “mixed-bag” card. Translation: Put all your products in a bag and whatever you pull out goes on the card, lol! The gold tree outline give this post its name ~ Spruced Up for CCMC731.

Here is the sketch that we were given ~

Here is what I used on my card:

• Thick Very Vanilla Cardstock base, 8-1/2″x 5-1/2″, scored and folded at 4-1/4″
• Basic Gray layer, 5-3/8″x 4-1/8″
• Abigail Rose Designer Series Paper, 5-1/4″x 4″
• Basic Gray layer, 4-1/4″x 2-3/4″
• Lights Aglow DSP, 4-1/8″x 2-5/8″
• Basic Gray strip, 3-3/4″x 1/2″
• Gold Foil circle, 1-3/4″ diameter
• Very Vanilla Cardstock banner, Stylish Shapes Dies, 2-1/4″x 7/8″
• Gold Foil tree outline, Spruced Up Dies
• Sentiment from Celebrate With Tags, Gold embossing
• Brushed Metallic Dots in gold

I glued all of the layers down flat except for the gold circle/sentiment banner, which I adhered with Dimensionals.

I hope you like my non-traditional, clearly accidental, holiday card! I’m rather pleased with the way it turned out. the Spruced Up Dies are amazing. More to come with those!

Let’s go see what the rest of the design team created with this sketch. Click HERE to hop over to Create With Connie & Mary.

And Happy First Day of September to you! Come by tomorrow to see my Sept. Host Code and Gift!

 

Product List

Celebrate With Tags Cling Stamp Set (English) [159974] $23.00	Abigail Rose 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [159037] $12.00	Lights Aglow 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [159535] $15.00	Gold Foil Sheets [132622] $5.00
Very Vanilla 8-1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock [144237] $8.75	Basic Gray 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [121044] $9.25	Very Vanilla 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [101650] $10.25	Spruced Up Outlines Dies [159700] $32.00
Layering Circles Dies [151770] $35.00	Stylish Shapes Dies [159183] $30.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $9.50	Metallics Embossing Powders [155555] $18.00
Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $30.00	Brushed Metallic Adhesive Backed Dots [156506] $9.00	Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430] $4.25	Embossing Additions Tool Kit [159971] $27.00