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Penny Black – Christmas Joy

Hello! Today I am sharing a holiday scene, created entirely with die-cuts, featuring Penny Black products. I love making scene cards, especially at Christmas-time.

I cut the #51-562 Christmas Wonderland border from white cardstock. I trimmed off two of the trees in the middle (the sleigh hides that area) and backed the remaining three trees with colored cardstock. I added the border to the navy cardstock base.
I cut the #51-572 Jumbo Joy letters from white cardstock and added them with foam adhesive to the base. I used the negative of the letters for alignment.
I cut the #51-466 Sleigh from Poppy Parade cardstock.
I cut the #51-465 Mitten Stocking items from cardstock and flock material, placing them into the sleigh on the card.

As I commented on a previous card using the #51-562 Christmas Wonderland border, I really like the whimsical feel it adds to the card.

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Penny Black – CAS Christmas Cards

Hello! Today I am sharing two cards of the same design featuring Penny Black products from the First Snow release.

On both cards, I used the #51-572 Jumbo Joy die, the #51-557 Reindeer Leaps die, and the #40-706 Snowflake Pattern background stamp. However, I changed the colors and textures to show the versatility of the supplies.

On the first, I heat-embossed the Snowflake Pattern stamp with gold embossing powder on navy cardstock. The reindeer is cut from brushed gold cardstock.

On the second card, I stamped the Snowflake Pattern stamp on gray cardstock with white ink. The JOY letters were flocked (using foam and the flock transfer sheets). This video shows how to die-cut the foam and apply the flock. I cut the reindeer from a bright red cardstock.

I really like to change the feel of a design with tweaks to the colors and textures.

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Penny Black – Magical Season

Hello! Today, I am sharing a CAS Christmas card created with products from Penny Black‘s new release – First Snow.

I’ve combined #51-557 Reindeer Leaps (cut from silver glitter cardstock) on a scene with #51-562 Christmas Wonderland and a sentiment from #30-649 Frosty Hello.

I white heat-embossed the sentiment on to a rich blue background before adding the die-cut pieces. The antlers of the reindeer were left intentionally loose to add a bit of whimsy. I backed the Christmas Wonderland border with bright pink cardstock to reinforce the magical atmosphere.

This card would be easy to reproduce. At the same time, it is one that can easily be changed with different colors and the addition of gold, silver, or copper. For example, the reindeer cut from copper cardstock and the background in black, with a different color behind the trees, would be bold and dramatic.

Thanks so much for dropping by!

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Penny Black Santa’s On His Way – Take Two

Hello! I’m sharing another take on the Santa scene shown in this post. This time, I made the card vertical.

I cut the #51-459 Neighborhood Border from white cardstock and trimmed off the border from the right-hand side to fit the 4 1/4″ width. I backed the windows with gold foil.
I heat-embossed the #30-257 Joy Filled sentiment in gold powder on navy cardstock (Stampin’ Up Night of Navy).
I cut Santa and his team of reindeer (with #51-560 Here Comes…) and the snowflakes (#51-268 A Blizzard and #51-080 Around Town) from white cardstock and added them to the nighttime scene. The Santa and reindeer was added with foam adhesive.

I particularly like this color scheme for Christmas cards, something that goes back to my childhood. My grandmother collected all of the cards that she received during the holiday season and kept them in a special box. My parents, my brother, and I traveled to her house every year either on Christmas Eve or December 23. Soon after we arrived, she and I would go through the box. Cards with gold and silver and dark jewel tones really stood out.

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Penny Black – At the Tree Farm

Hello! Today, I’m sharing a Christmas scene card, created with Penny Black die sets from the Merry and Joy release, in which I’ve envisioned a trip to the Christmas tree farm. Let’s take a look!

For the card background, I adhered vellum to patterned paper (Carta Bella Christmas ) to soften it.
I cut the #51-571 Vintage Truck from cardstock including Riding Hood Red (retired Stampin’ Up) for the truck body .
The #51-574 …Bright sentiment was cut from the same red cardstock and from silver foil cardstock. I tried several cardstock colors for the sentiment including brushed silver and white. This combination of the red and the shiny silver worked the best.
The #51-567 Tree Border was die cut from white cardstock and directly added to the background. The border does not cut the bottom portion so the tree border can be cut to the size that you want.

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