Friday, July 27, 2012

Seriously. More Christmas cards?



It seems like in Blogland at the moment, everyone is making Christmas cards in an effort to keep cool! It's genius. Or insane. One or the other!

When I saw this palette on Apron Strings Pinterest challenge #19 -




I immediately thought of traffic lights! Not helpful. But then I thought of street signs, street furniture etc. I'm not sure this was what Lori was thinking but hey, if we all thought the same, we'd live in a very boring world!


I second-generation stamped the background with my new "Sanded" background stamp (got it from the PIF threads on Splitcoast Stampers - check them out if you haven't already) in Basic Grey on Sahara Sand to get an asphalt-y look. Then I sponged the edges to make it look a bit more distressed. Then I grabbed some bits of ribbon (didn't have grey - no probs! Used cardstock) and scraps of paper in roughly the correct colour palette and voila. The sentiment was stamped onto vellum and embossed in silver. I am so pleased with this card.

If you receive this card from me at Christmas you must be very special indeed because I'm going to have a hard time parting with it!



8 comments:

  1. What a cute card! I really like that design and great job with the AS inspiration!

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  2. Adorable Christmas card. I think I need to make one myself. I love banners, baker's twine and vellum lately. I wouldn't have thought to use those colors for Christmas, but you rocked this one!

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  3. What a cute and clever design with your layered fish-tail banners!! Great card, Bexx!

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  4. I LOVE this! These colors are right up my alley, great non-traditional Christmas card!

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  5. I love the design of your card! Genius to put the sentiment on vellum, so not to cover up the pretty colors!

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  6. I love this non-traditional Christmas card. The different colors are awesome! Thanks for sharing it.

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  7. This is simply adorable! I love the non-traditional colors. So fun.

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