Thanks for joining me today as we continue our new design series — using holiday products to create everyday designs. I don’t know about you, but I tend to look at products in a holiday release from a single lens. But very often, these products are intended for designs far outside specific holidays.
Today, we’re using the new Take a Bow paper and Joyful ephemera packs to create a missing-you card. For me, there’s no question that the winter holidays make me think of friends and loved ones far away. So why not send them a card to let them know?!
We get started with a base of Pool Party cardstock. All of the patterned papers come from the Take a Bow paper pack, which will release on September 6th. I used the Nested Essentials dies to cut the two image background panels that hold our focal images from the Joyful Images ephemera packs. The sentiment comes from the Joyful Sayings ephemera pack. Varying layers of dimensionals behind elements gives depth and interest to our design. We finish things off and tie things together with a few gold snowflakes to bring out the gold striping in the sentiment banner backing.
Tomorrow we’re making an elegant sympathy card that is definitely a must-see! I hope you’ll pop in and check it out.
Products used in today’s card:
Pool Party cardstock
Take a Bow (coming soon!) DSP
Joyful Sayings & Images ephemera (coming soon!)
Nested Essentials dies
Snowflakes
Dimensionals
Adhesives
Song Sparrow Papercrafts 