Christmas is over, but I had to make another Christmas card with the Stampin' Up! Stocking Builder Punch and Stitched Stockings stamp set before the 2011 Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalog ends on January 3, 2012.
Last week Stampin' Up! announced the Stocking Builder Punch will not be in the 2012-2013 Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog. A punch from a mini catalog not making into the next Idea Book & Catalog is a first. So, I wanted to be sure to let you all know that in case you had put off ordering it because there so many other great stamp sets and accessories in the 2011 Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalog.
Not just give you the heads up, but tempt you to purchase it with another handmade card idea.
Is it working? Am I doing my job well? The two together, the Stocking Builder Punch and Stitched Stockings stamp set, are a lot of fun to use to create cards, tags or scrapbook pages. I love the punch because you have not just the stocking you can punch out, but also the top, heel and toe of the stocking. You'll see on my card I did just that, alternating between the colors Pear Pizzazz and Cherry Cobbler.
Add a loop of White Bakers Twine to hang your stockings. My stockings are hanging from a Gold Brad. I used my Paper Piercing Tool and sponge mat from the Mat Pack to make my holes precisely where I wanted them.
My Gold Brads inspired me to layer my Cherry Cobbler Card Stock piece behind the stockings with Brushed Gold Card Stock. Doesn't that look rich?
I must tell you it was an accident that I layered the stockings onto the Cherry Cobbler Card Stock card base embossed with the Framed Tulip Embossing Folder. (It was embossed with the Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine). The card base was with my scraps, put aside from a project that had changed courses. I was just tickled when the gold card stock covered the tulips and all you could see was the scallop embossed border.
What a happy accident! Sometimes I get tunnel vision. When I think of the Framed Tulips Embossing Folder, I think flowers. Silly me.
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