Bright & Beautiful in Brown

This is day 3 of the 12 days of Christmas where I post 2 cards everyday.

Happy Card Making day!!  Hope you get into your craft room and make some cards today.

I don't usually use shades of brown in my Christmas cards, but today I made an exception.  I was inspired by the designer paper in the Trim the Tree designer paper pack.

I started with a Cherry Cobbler base layered with Very Vanilla cardstock embossed with Decorative Dots folder.
Then I matted a piece of designer paper with Crumb cake and adhered it in the middle of the card.
The image unit starts with a Crumb cake oval embossed with the Decorative dots folder.  I stamped 2 medium stars - one with Early Espresso on Very Vanilla card stock  and embossed with Clear embossing powder  - the other embossing it with White embossing powder on Crumb Cake cardstock.  The stars framelits was used to die cut both stars.  The tiny star on the top was stamped with Early Espresso and embossed with Clear embossing powder before die cutting with the smallest of the star framelit.
The Early Espresso star was adhered to the oval using dimensionals.  The Crumb Cake star was rotated so that the star points alternated and then adhered to the Early Espresso one with dimensionals.  A dimensional was used to attach the smallest star to the image unit.  On top of that is a champagne glimmer star punched with the small star punch.
Two banners were made.  The larger longer one was embossed with the Decorative Dots folder.  The smaller Very Vanilla one was stamped with the sentiment.  They were adhered together and attached to the DSP under one end of the oval.
Hint: Whenever I die cut glimmer paper, there is always some paper left over around the edges that can be used.  I just hate throwing that out.  So, I use the small star punch and punch as many stars as I can from the remnant.  I have one container for Champagne stars; one for silver stars.  They come in really handy when you need a star embellishment.

Stamp: Bright & Beautiful
Inks: Early Espresso, Versa Mark
Papers: Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Champagne glimmer, Trim the Tree DSP pack
Accessories: Decorative dots folder, Oval framelit, Star framelit, Small star punch, dimensionals, Clear embossing powder, White embossing powder

Bright & Beautiful Seasons's Greetings - a CASE

I cased this card from Sandi MacIver (Stamping with Sandy) .  I just loved the card so much when I saw it that I cased the entire card.

You can see why.  Isn't it gorgeous!!
Go to Sandi's blog here for directions as to how she made this card.

Stamp: Bright &Beautiful
Inks:Versa Mark
Papers: Garden Green, Brushed Gold cardstock, Trim the Tree DSP pack
Accessories: Star framelits, Gold embossing powder, Small star punch, dimensionals

Bright & Beautiful Star Card

Today I made several different cards using the Bright & Beautiful stamp set.  I started with this star card which was made using the largest of the star framelit on a folded piece of Cherry Cobbler.  Just make sure one of the star points overlaps the fold preventing the framelit from cutting the card stock into 2 separate pieces.

The second layer of the star card is a piece of silver glimmer paper die cut using the second largest star framelit.  This was attached to the cherry cobbler star card.  Then I stamped the second largest star with Versa Mark and embossed it with white embossing powder.  After die cutting it with the star framelit it was attached to the silver glimmer paper.  Use tombo glue because nothing else seems to adhere to this glimmer paper.
Finally I stamped and embossed the smallest star on cherry cobbler cardstock and die cut it using the smallest star framelit.  I attached it to the embossed layer with a dimensional.  A large pearl finished the card off nicely.

Stamp: Bright & Beautiful
Ink: Versa Mark
Papers: Cherry Cobbler, Silver Glimmer
Accessories: Star framelits, white embossing powder, large pearl, dimensional, white taffeta ribbon (retired)

Star Ornament

This Christmas ornament is made using the Star Framelits and the stamp set "Bright & Beautiful".  It is very easy to make and the effect is stunning!

There are 8 layers to this ornament, all put together using dimensionals.
The first think I did was emboss using gold embossing powder on Very Vanilla cardstock, 2 each of the star stamps.  These were die cut using the Star Framelits.  In addition, I die cut the largest of the Star Framelits using Gold cardstock.
Then I built 2 halfs of the ornament - a large gold star, a medium one, a smaller one, and the tiny middle one - by adhering them together with dimensionals.  You will end up with 2 halves of the ornament.
Before adhering them together, I adhered some gold stretch cord to the back of one of the halves.  This will be the ornament hanger.
Now I adhered the 2 halves of the ornament together, and walla you have an ornament!  To finish the ornament I put a large pearl in the middle

Stamp: Bright & Beautiful
Ink:  Versa Mark
Papers: Very Vanilla, Gold cardstock
Accessories: Star Framelits, Gold embossing powder, stretch cord (non SU), dimensionals.