I mixed imperial and metric measurements for my cards - I made my cards from a 4" wide strip of CS (the whole A4 length) and scored at 9 and 18 cms as per Kerstin's instructions.
Here is one card on its own. A circle aperture is cut out of the card front and a vellum circle is glued behind the aperture. The vellum is embossed with the SU! 'Softly Falling' embossing folder which gives a fab snowy look. I popped up the snowflake on the bottom so it acted as a stop for the easel.
Here is a card with the tealight inside and switched on, love that warm glow!
Here's the base of the card where the tealight goes. I adhered a large die cut snowflake and helpfully wrote the 'place tealight here' instruction on each snowflake!
Here's how I decorated the bottom of the cards using the beautiful SU! 'Snow Is Glistening' stamp set.
Here's a side view of the easel card.
Here's the pile of cards all made.
The cards ended up as not a standard size for an envelope so I decided to place each card inside a snowflake patterned cellophane bag which I decorated with a sparkly silver gift tag and parcel baubles.
Inside each bag I placed a card, a battery operated tealight and a few goodies - a boxed flavoured hot chocolate mix, a Malteser MerryTeaser reindeer chocolate bar, a Ferrero Rocher chocolate and an orange flavoured Lindor chocolate ball.
I'm delighted to say that these went down a storm with my ladies and we'll definitely be making one of these as a card group project next winter! I'd like to make a couple more for friends this year too but we'll see how that goes!
Stamps: SU! 'Hearts Come Home' & 'Snow Is Glistening' sets
CS: SU! Night of Navy & Whisper White, SU! vellum
Ink: SU! Night of Navy
Tools: SU! Simply Scored, SU! 'Layering Circles' Framelits die set, SU! 'Hometown Greetings' Edgelits die set, SU! 'Snowfall' Thinlits die set, SU! 1/4" circle punch
Embellishments & accessories: SU! rhinestone jewels, SU! Dimensionals, Wilko battery operated tealights
Ruth
1 comment:
LOVE the card you made. I will try to make a card like this for my daughter. She used to be a stampin up demonstrator for many years. Thank you so much for the inspiration,
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