Singing a Happy Holiday Tune
Hi readers! Happy Wednesday to you! I hope you’re having a great week, and getting into full holiday swing! To help keep that going, we have a special holiday card by our crafty friend Lucy Abrams! We hope you enjoy! Read on!
Hands up: who is guilty of always wanting to use brand new supplies on their projects, and neglecting all their much loved older products… I know I am! So when I was thinking about creating this card, I decided it would be fun to combine old and new.
I rooted through my stash of lovely older release Hero Arts stamps, and came up with their gorgeous Music Background. I remember how excited I was when they released this one; it’s just perfect for Christmas card backgrounds. So I paired it up with the newly released Fancy Cuts Christmas die set, and created this sparkly, inky card.
The background was heat embossed in white, then inked over with Ranger’s Festive Berries Distress Ink. And I stitched my die cuts to the card for a different look.
A few beautiful Hero Arts Smooth Clear Gemstones finished the card off.
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Thanks for reading today, and thanks to Lucy for being our guest!
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That’s a perfect background for holiday cards! And you can change the colour if you wish. Brilliant!
Fabulous card. The music background is great. The silver and red looks stunning
I love the die cut of merry christmas, it is so elegant!
What a beautiful card! I love the little touches of silver glitter paper!
Christmas cards are a great opportunity to revisit old supplies…the season never really goes out of style. I love the stitiched, glitter greeting!
Beautiful card. I like the embossed background! xx
I love this idea! Simple, elegant, & beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the super beautiful, creative card idea. Time to revisit stamps that have been forgotten.
I like how you combined old with new.
Gorgeous – the background pops.
Absolutely gorgeous!
This is really quite stunning, I never would have though to make something like this, but I can’t stop staring at it…
I love the distressed background over the music notes.
Love that music background and the festive berries color is awesome. Thanks for reminder to look at old to use with the new product!
Love the background. Thanks for sharing.
One of the most gorgeous cards I’ve seen this season! Thanks for the inspiration!
I do like the resist technique! it’s a great go to card that always wows.
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Ahhh love embossing and distress ink backgrounds. Very pretty card!!!
So pretty. I love those smooth gemstones. They add the perfect touch.
i love the merry christmas dies
I love how the background fades at the corners! That is such a clever technique!
Gorgeous holiday card!
Beautiful
Such a pretty background stamp and color.
Such a festive card. Love the colors.
I completely love this card!! So lovely!
Beautiful embossed background on your card. Love the Merry Christmas die too.
Love the card! The colors are great.
Love the colors on this card!! Beautiful!
WHAT A COOL CARD!!!! LOOOOVE the SILVER! :D
beautiful card! Thanks for sharing
Elegant. Love the color of the festive berry distress ink.
great card, love the background
BEAUTIFUL card!
Lovin’ the color and all that gorgeous glitter! Thanks for sharing with us!
A great reminder to use our much loved older stamps! Love how you inked the background and added the glitzy sentiment!
Loving the red & silver on this card.
OMG What a gorgeous card You really came up with so many fabulous and lovely ideas for your card. I love the background the music paper is so awesome and the way you embossed it just adds so much to the beauty of it all what a clever idea and then your stitching sure adds such a personal touch to your card. You truly did one outstanding creative job!! You are so talented!!
Such a gorgeous card! I love how the red fades out toward the edges.
Fabulous idea and realization!
Beautiful card! Love the colors & that great die cut.
What a beautiful card! I love the layout, the colours, everything! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful card!
A simple but stunning card that can be done in so many different colours!! Also this idea is so versatile and can be used for other occasions too!!! TFS!!
Beautiful card, I love that big Christmas die!
This is a very pretty card. I still have every stamp I have bought and use my older ones all the time.
Beautiful card with a wonderful nostalgic feel.
Gorgeous card! Love the music theme and the sparkle!
Pinned this beautiful card as I have that background & this could be very easily mailed with sequins or glitter instead of dots. Thanks for the inspiration!
Love the card.