The 9 Days of Christmas - Day 5 - Suzanne

Welcome to Quietfire Design's 9 Days of Christmas - Day 5!

 

If you've been following along, you'll know we have a wonderful way to share these new stamps with you during this event.

If you are a subscriber to Scrapbooking.com you will have seen Judi Kauffman's Holiday Headstart article published Sept 1, 2013. In that article each designer created three cards of increasing complexity. We will be continuing that theme for all 9 days!

 

Each designer has created

1. One "quick and easy" card - in a style you can make multiples of, but nice enough to send out to your friends.  Basically; cardstock, stamp, patterned paper.
2. One "a little more" card - the same card as the "quick and easy", but adding some embellishment or more complex.  This one would take a bit more time or cost a bit more to make.
3. One "over the top" card  - Enough said!  This would be an heirloom card, something you'd keep, frame, display every year - perhaps something with a removable ornament. For hand delivery or shipped in a box.

 
 
The new stamps may be found
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Here is a seasonal sidestep into celebrating Chanukah!  Don't forget to leave a comment at the bottom of this post to be eligible for a prize.

Sometimes I think it would have been easier to do the more complicated card first and then simplify, but that wasn't the way it was going to work for me today.
Here is my first card.  It would be very easy to take a few measurements and create many of these cards with relative ease!

 

 




To punch the corners I used a Martha Stewart punch "Gothic arches" which I thought mimicked the flames of the menorah.  The decorated  paper was from a collection I used to carry: S.E.I.'s Moonrise.  The VersaFine ink colour was Majestic Blue.
Here are the thumbnail links for the products I used in Card #1 (the simple version):

For Card #2, my intermediate card, I went quite a bit more complicated! I added the Happy Chanukah stamp, thermal embossed the stamped images and did more layers.  Positioning was critical as the borders were very narrow.

 
 

It's hard to photograph something so shiny! (I used gold Shimmer Sheetz behind the top layer - see the link below) The dark places are actually reflections of me taking the photo! Next time I'll have a light under my chin, too. I'd highly recommend stamping and embossing Happy Chanukah first on the cardstock and then positioning and trimming everything else.
The layers for this card, from the bottom up are:

• Cardblank
• Blazer Blue cardstock
• Pop Dots
• Gold Shimmer Sheetz
• Diecut, stamped and thermal embossed Blazer Blue cardstock

 

Love that Spellbinders die!

Here are the links to the products for this card and the heritage card below:

 

My final card doesn't look that much more complicated as it has no new products, but it is, with additional layers of Shimmer Sheetz and Blazer Blue cardstock.

I think the Shimmer Sheetz give incredible richness to this card and I would hope someone would want to keep it. For a while. :-)
The layers for this card, from the bottom up are:

• Cardblank
• Pop Dots
• Gold Shimmer Sheetz
• Diecut, stamped and thermal embossed Blazer Blue cardstock
• Pop Dots
• Diecut Gold Shimmer Sheetz
• Diecut Blazer Blue cardstock

I hope you've found this interesting!
Here are all three shown side by side.  The cards were all the same size, it's just me not matching them well in this photo! Sorry!

Thanks for stopping by!
Don't forget to leave your comment below to be eligible for a prize!
Happy creating, Suzanne