Altenew Timeless Sled Layering Dies

 

Hello friends!  I am up on the Scrapbook Pal Blog today, with this beautiful Christmas card using the new dies from Altenew called Timeless Sled Layering Dies.  I think that this card has a little bit of a vintage vibe to it with the non-traditional colors and the gold trim. 

The first thing I did was emboss a piece of cardstock using the Lush Berry Branch 3D embossing folder.  This design is so beautiful. 

While I kind of wanted to leave the embossing just white and do a more mono-chromatic card, I decided that I would do that on another card.  Using the Lush Berry Branch Stencils, and my Pinkfresh Studios Mini Ink Pads, I started to color my design. 

I started with the Sage Ink Pad from the Green Gables Collection to ink the leaves.  The berries were inked with Ballet Slipper from the Fairy Dust Collection, followed up with a touch of Berrylicious from the Heartbeat Collection.  For the final stencil layer, which has the stems, I used Eucalyptus, also from the Green Gables Collection.   Once I was done with my inking, I cut my inked piece down to 4.0” x 5.25”

I wanted my sled to be mostly black and silver, so I cut the runners from matte silver and silver glittered cardstock.  The body and inside of my sled were cut from two different black colored shiny cardstocks.

  The poinsettias, stems, leaves, gifts and pillow were cut from various colors of Bazill Bling cardstock.  I used some inks from the embossing to add some definition to some of them.  Once they were inked and assembled, I arranged them at the bottom corner of the card.

Once I had the sled and flower spray adhered, I layered the piece on top of a piece of gold glttered cardstock and layered it again on the green shimmer cardstock cut to 4.25” x 5.5”.  I lined up all the layers together at the top left corner to give the card a little more interest.

For the sentiment I used one of the Sleigh Ride Greetings Stamp Set and the Coordinating Die to cut it out. 

I added a few pearl embellishments to the upper right and lower left corner to balance the card.  The embellishments are Honey Bee Happy Hearts Pearls.

This is such a pretty and elegant card that I can’t wait to send it off this next Christmas season.

Thank you for stopping by the blog today!  I hope you have found some inspiration.

Sandy