Traditions of Christmas – Song Sparrow Papercrafts

Well, how do you do? Isn’t that the appropriate thing to say when you’re meeting a stranger….. I kinda feel like a stranger at this point. I just need a little break because I was feeling overwhelmed trying to keep all of the balls in the air. Do you ever feel that way? It’s perfectly normal. And knowing what you need to recenter is key. I knew I needed to put a few balls back in the basket for a little bit.

Now that life is a little more manageable, I’m diving back in. And I am SO excited because it’s time to gear up and make my Christmas cards. Although I’ve taken a break from social media for the last month, I haven’t been away from the craft room. And I learned some nifty new tricks as I was prepping for a big Christmas craft faire and look forward to sharing the new giftie fun folds I have in the repertoire! But this week we’re keeping things simple.

Today we’re getting started with a no-stamp holiday card design because y’all, I’m behind on my own Christmas cards! EEK! So I need some designs that I can turn out quickly. And today’s card combines some of my current faves in the holiday-ish crafty stash — with SU!’s Traditions of Christmas and Season of Elegance paired up with ephemera and pops of gold foil for support. You’re going to love how easy this is!

We get started with a nice neutral background of white cardstock. A sheet of the beautiful Real Red Season of Elegance gold foiled paper serves as our background. The focal section is a combination of what I like to call and artsy panel element and a sentiment. The artsy panel has a background of the white and gold foiled graph pattern from the Regal Distressed Patterns paper pack, a mat of gold foil, and the pièce de résistance — the poinsettia & mixed greenery patterned sheet from the Traditions of Christmas paper pack. This whole panel is elevated with dimensionals to really give it that piece-of-art feeling. I chose a simple sentiment — the round merry & bright panel — from the Greetings for You ephemera pack as the compliment and placed it in the bottom-left corner of the artsy panel, putting it just a tick above our patterned panel. We finish things off with a box of Real Red shiny ribbon & some of the Pool Party Traditional Sparkling sequins.

Isn’t this just a stunner? Super easy and oh-so elegant! I hope you’ll pop in this week to see what other quick & easy holiday cards I come up with!

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Howdy, everybody, and happy Tuesday to you! This week we are exploring a new design theme – all that glitters is gold. And we’re using all of the sparkly gold goodies in our crafty stash. Today’s card combines the new Traditions of Christmas paper with a few classics, like Nature’s Sweetness and some gold foil.

What I love about the new papers is that, while they lean easily toward holiday project designs, they are equally as versatile in making more general projects, as well. Today, for instance, we’re using Christmas greenery to create a thinking of you card.

We get started with a base of Cloud Cover cardstock. The background panel is a sheet of the Secret Sea & Cloud Cover stripe from the Traditions of Christmas paper pack and cutting it with the Sentimental Framing dies. The focal panel in the center of our card front starts with a double stack of the foiled script sheet from the Nature’s Sweetness pack. I liked the picture-in-picture look of the nesting rectangles with the top layer on dimensionals. These two panels are matted with some Misty Moonlight glimmer paper from the Peaceful Garden glimmer paper pack. Our focal image combines three dies from the Christmas Greenery set. The background greenery is cut from gold foil and mounted behind the focal spray which is diecut from a sheet of the Traditions of Christmas paper and mounted over the greenery sprigs with dimensionals. The sentiment from The Right Words set is stamped in Secret Sea on Cloud Cover and then diecut using the Stylish Shapes banner die using the extension method. The sentiment is popped up with dimensionals for extra eye-catching height. We finish things off with a scattering of Traditional Sparkling sequins.

We’re going to be pairing up some more fun glittery gold products from the crafty stash tomorrow. I hope you’ll drop by and check it out!

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