Stampin' Up! Night Before Christmas Card

Hey all, are you all set for Christmas?  Well, I applaud you if you are because I'm slowly plodding along.  I've a lot of things started, but not actually completed and making Christmas cards is one of those things I need to complete.  I made sure I had enough to be able to mail out, now I need to make a few more to hand out locally.

I dove deep into my dsp storage to find something I haven't used in a few years but was still super cute and I found...Night Before Christmas.  This one has been around since 2019 and I'm down now to a few strips left to find a use for.

My card design was found on Pinterest, an American demonstrator, who makes great cards.  Figured I would borrow her design and just switch out colours, dsp and sentiment.

Using my embossing buddy first, I patted the spot on my card front where I wanted my sentiment to be as well, on the insert.  Then I stamped the sentiments using Versark and sprinkled with the Copper Embossing Powder.  After tapping the excess powder off and making sure there weren't any bits where I didn't want them to be, I applied heat using my Stampin' Up! Heat Tool to melt the powder into an embossed delight!  The effect is so beautiful to watch and see the end result.  

Next, it's just putting all the pieces together.  I layered the pretty dsp pieces onto a coloured card stock matte and then adhered to the card front.  For the insert, I adhered a thin strip of dsp to the side then adhered it to the inside of the card-I always do something with the insides of the card...just how I roll.

To finish them up, a few Adhesive Backed Speckled Dots were added to jazz it up a bit.




Materials and Measurements

Cardbase 4 1/4 x 11"  My combinations were Crumb Cake & Cherry Cobbler; Crumb Cake & Poppy Parade; Old Olive & Crumb Cake

Coordinating cardstock 3 1/8 x 3 1/8"

Night Before Christmas DSP 3 x 3", strip for insert

Basic White Cardstock 4 x 5 1/4" for insert

More Merry Messages Stamp Set

 Gold Stampin' Embossing Powder

Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad

Stampin' Heat Tool

Embossing Buddy

Adhesive Backed Speckled Dots

Tombow Mono Liquid Glue


Well, what do you think?  Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy?  This card could easily be mass produced, switching up the dsp and cardstock colours and certainly could be added to if you wanted.

Thanks for looking,

Mary Louise


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