Tricia's Stamping Creations: New At SU July Blog Hop Make It Metallic Greetings of the Season

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

New At SU July Blog Hop Make It Metallic Greetings of the Season

Welcome to the New At SU July Blog Hop and this month's theme is all about Metallics. It's amazing how a little Gold, Silver, Copper etc. can step up even the simplest design to take it to the next level. Our wonderful Design Team will be sharing their ideas and projects to help inspire you to explore adding a metallic touch to your projects.

I love using metallics to add a touch of elegance to my card designs. For today's card design, I chose to create a stepped up clean and simple Christmas card using Gold accents with a variety of products. The new Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper is perfect for this style of card, with the beautiful gold elements incorporated into the holiday themed designs in this pretty pack of paper. I chose to use one of the foliage patterned designs with touches of gold to give it a classically elegant look. In addition, I used Gold Foil sheets, Gold Trim and Gold Sequins as well as Gold embossing to create a beautiful card that is quick and simple to put together. It is a great example of how you can create simply beautiful cards for the holidays.

Products Used:

Greetings of the Season Bundle (item #164113)

Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper

(item #164324)

Garden Green Cardstock (item #102584)

Thick Basic White Cardstock (item #159229)

Gold Foil Sheets (item #132622)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Wow Embossing Powders (item #165678)

Neutrals Adhesive Backed Sequins (item #161627)

Gold & Silver 1/8" Trim (item #161633)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Thick Basic White Cardstock

Card Base - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Garden Green Cardstock

Layer 1 - 5 1/4" x 4"

Sentiment Oval stamped & die cut with the Greetings of the Season Bundle

Season of Gold & Green Specialty Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5" x 3 3/4"

Gold Foil Sheets

Large Label die cut with the Greetings of the Season Dies

For today's card design, I wanted the designer series paper to be the star of the show and have the other gold elements coordinate to bring out the gold detail in the background design. I chose to use Gold Foil to create the large label to frame the sentiment and I heat embossed the sentiment onto the Garden Green label. I used a piece of Gold Trim to thread through the tag hole and tie a knot to create a simple accent. I used Stampin' Dimensionals to pop up the Garden Green cardstock label onto the larger label, making sure to center it on the larger label. I attached the labels to the center of the designer series paper card front and then adhered it to the Garden Green cardstock layer. To complete the assembly of the card, I attached the card front layers to the card base using Stampin' Dimensionals to pop it up. To finish up the design, I added several Gold Sequins for a touch of bling that fits with the classically elegant design. As you can see, Stampin' Up! offers a wonderful range of coordinating products that helps take the stress out of creating while adding that Wow factor to your projects.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to explore adding metallics to your projects to help step up your designs. Stampin' Up! has so many options to help you create beautiful designs using your choice of metallics.

Please take time to visit our Design Team to see their amazing projects by using the links in the Roll Call List below. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects.

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you.