Peace Love & Joy

A woman who works with my mom recently saw some cards I'd made for Operation Write Home, and was so impressed that she asked if I could make some Christmas cards for her to give. This is the first of those cards.

My inspiration came from one of the cards in this post that I found on Pinterest. I began by embossing a piece of white cardstock with the "A2 Snowflakes" embossing folder by The Paper Studio. I cut a piece of dot patterned paper from The Paper Studio's "Blanc Boutique" 12x12" paper pad for the lower panel. I also stamped the greeting from this Hero Arts set onto a piece of white cardstock in Versamark and heat embossed it with Ranger Silver embossing powder. I die cut it with one of the Spellbinders' "Labels Four" dies, and inked the edges with Tumbled Glass Distress ink.

I blended more Tumbled Glass on the front of a white A2 card base. After rounding 2 corners of the embossed & patterned paper panels, I adhered them to the card base. I felt there needed to be something over the seam, so I punched some silver shimmer cardstock with Fiskars' "Scallop Sentiment" border punch and cut that into a thin strip. I glued that over the seam, and glued the greeting panel on top.

To finish, I stamped another sentiment from the same Hero Arts set on the inside of the card, using Hero Arts Silver shadow ink. A simple, but elegant card.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Hero Arts Holiday Challenge: "White Out"
a2z Scrapbooking's October Challenge: Use 2 "hard" Hero Arts products (used 2 stamps)