Shiny ornament card...

 

Gold metallic cardstock is horrible to photograph, so please excuse all the shadows and reflections.

For this card, I first created a 4" X 6" card base and rounded the two right corners. I had some pretty striped cardstock with gold stitch lines running through it. I added a 3" wide piece to my card front and then started die-cutting my ornaments.

After the ornaments had been cut out, I backed them with red glitter CS so that the open design would be filled with some red, glittery goodness.

After popping them up with foam squares on the edge of my striped CS, I added a red gem in the little hanger of each one. 

The sentiment was printed with my computer and then foiled with a laminator. I die-cut it and popped it up on foam strips.

I stamped the inside sentiment with gold, metallic ink.

I made as many of these cards as I could, given I had only one 8 1/2" X 11" sheet of the striped CS. I will definitely be keeping my eye out for more paper with some gold accents in it to use for Christmas cards.

Today was my day to volunteer at the thrift store. A Xyron personal cutting machine had been donated, and those types of craft tools come to me to test, price and display. I had never used a Xyron cutting machine before so it was fun to figure out how it worked. The user manual was included, but it wasn't very good. I did get it to work, and it cut paper just fine. The big drawback was that the shapes it would cut were very limited and they had to fit on a 4" X 4" piece of paper. It seemed really archaic after using a Cricut and a Silhouette Cameo for many years. I think they cost about $100 when they first came out, but this one went on the shelf for just $9.00!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day

Cheryl