Silver and White Merry Christmas

I needed several cards for my mom.  My sisters and I take turns each year doing a daily Advent gift for my mom and one for my dad!  I saw a similar idea and made a couple changes and came up with this simple elegant card. 

The card base is Whisper White Thick, and I layered another white panel on top (have I mentioned I love white on white?) popping it up with dimensionals.  The snowflake and words from Holly Jolly Greetings are stamped in Smokey Slate which looks silver "ish" to me.

I cut the Merry from Christmas Greetings Thinlits from Silver Glimmer paper and used the Fine Tip Glue Pen to adhere it over the snowflake.

Finished it with some Silver Glimmer paper stars.  I think my mom will love them!

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Simply Peace and a Merry Christmas Card

Today I'm sharing with you two of my favorite Christmas cards.  Elegant in their simplicity, these are cards you can make a lot of in a short amount of time and they are flat and easy to mail.  I'm making a lot of these to send this year.

Starting with "peace" the base is Shimmery White – my favorite card stock! Really, it is my favorite.  It stamps beautifully, you can watercolor on it and it has a glorious shimmer to it.  I used some washi tape to mask a rectangle then used my sponge dauber and Night of Navy ink to shade inside of that rectangle.  I might add that the washi tape comes right off, which doesn't always happen on Whisper White.

I stamped the stars from the stamp set Holly Jolly Greetings with Versamark, then used Heat & Stick Powder and Dazzling Diamonds Glitter on the stars.

I die cut the peace, which is part of the Christmas Greetings Thinlits, 3 times – once each from Silver Glimmer, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer and Shimmery White.  While all looked great, my favorite was Dazzling Diamonds so I used my Fine Tip Glue Pen to adhere it.

That's it!  You're done.  Here is a variation on the Peace card.  This one is "daubered" with Real Red ink.  The greeting was cut from Red Glimmer Paper. For this one I layered a Shimmery White panel onto a Whisper White Card Base for a little different look (and makes that Shimmery White paper last longer!)

I used Basic Rhinestones instead of glitter and I added another word – Christmas, from Holly Jolly Greetings. Which do you like better?

Look at these other projects by Stampin' Up! using the Christmas Greetings Thinlits.

Tip:  when using a sponge dauber to add color I always start off the paper

Thanks so much for looking!  Let me know what you think!

Debbie

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