I love how this card features some of the beautiful Sentimental Christmas patterned paper. In fact, this card is a celebration of many things from the new Sept-Dec Mini Catalog. The stamp and die bundle immediately made it on my wish list, and I’m so happy that I bought it. There are some fantastic Holiday/Winter greetings and the coordinating dies are very cool. I can see using them over and over in ways that let patterned paper be the star of the show. For this card, I think the font on the greeting matches the vibe from the Sentimental Christmas paper.

Let me talk a little bit about the Sentimental Christmas paper. Stampin’ Up! is once again having the “Making a Difference” program. For every pack of the Sentimental Christmas paper that are sold, the company will donate $3 to organizations around the world that support children’s literacy. It’s a really cool program, and it’s a fantastic way to enjoy some gorgeous paper AND support a great cause!

I also want to describe how I made the sentiment diecut for the card. First I diecut a piece of Poppy Parade cardstock. Then I stamped the greeting in Pecan Pie ink and diecut with the same die. I used my paper snips to cut out the stamped center of the diecut. I was inspired to do this by one of the samples in the catalog. It’s easy to do, and it adds some interesting possibilities with this stamp & die bundle.

This current challenge was the inspiration for my design. I think that a Christmas card is a little surprising (maybe) given the inspiration images for the challenge. But that’s part of the great things about challenges – it’s for inspiration, not hard and fast rules. And my striped pattern paper certainly fits the “Stripes” option for the challenge. I had a lot of fun with this, and I hope you like it, too!

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Paper Snips
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