Susanbcards: Sizzix #Sizzix12daysofChristmas 49 and Market

Sizzix and 49th and Market have a lovely Christmas Collection I used to make this card. I stamped "Pencil Line Holly" with Versamark ink and used Brutus Monroe gold embossing powder for the outline. The stamps have layering stamps to easily color in the images and give it that handpainted look. I used Distress ink in Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron and Pineneedles for the greens. I used Lumberjack Plaid for the red.

The stamps have coordinating dies to cut out the images. Behind the holly, I stamped images from "Bird Song", a vintage look set. I embossed a piece of cream cardstock with the "Pines" embossing folder. After it was run through my Big Shot, I ran the Versamark ink pad over the top and used more of the gold embossing powder on it.

Sometimes I make a card that has too much dimension on it to mail or I want to include it with a hostess gift. If you put it in an envelope it looks all bumpy and doesn't quite fit. I don't want to use tape to attach it to the gift, so I came up with this idea.

I used fun foam to pop up the panel on the cardfront, you can use foam tape too. I left a space in the middle without foam that my wide ribbon fits snuggly into (but not glued to anything). I then attached the panel to the cardfront (without getting any adhesive on the ribbon). I then knot the ribbon on the back of the gift.

The card will only move as much as the ribbon does, so you could tape the ribbon to the wrapping paper on the back of the package. I tied it pretty tight, so it didn't move much. Now the card is the gift decoration. To remove the card, untie the ribbon and pull it through. The card stays intact!

For my second package, I just diecut and decorated the Winter Wishes Thinlet set by Jen Long. This isn't a card, I just made it to sit on my gift. You could easily make this a shaped card to attach to the gift too.

Here's the video tutorial!

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Pencil Line Holly