Kraft and Red Christmas Card

 

The C.R.A.F.T. challenge theme is Christmas Non Traditional Christmas Colors.  The current Color Hues challenge is to use red and kraft which are not traditional Christmas colors, so now that I had my color scheme it was time to get creating!  I started with a piece of kraft cardstock cut the tree using the Penny Black Christmas Elegance die which cuts openings in the paper so that the design is created by the negative space.  Next I heat embossed a sentiment from Close to My Heart's Holiday wishes set and a star from Stampin' Up's Star of Light set using Ranger's Princess Gold powder.  I pressed the edges of the panel perpendicularly into Versamark ink and then into Red Tinsel embossing powder from Range and heat embossed them for a sparkly, fine, red edge.  I backed the tree with white glitter paper and then stacked the panel on three red panels of the same size before attaching it to a slightly larger piece of kraft paper as a mat.  This provided dimension and interest because if you look at the card from an angle you see the red stacked red paper.  I finished the card by embellishing the tree with red and white glitter paper circles cut using a 1/8 inch hole punch. 

This reminds me of a vintage 1960's white artificial tree which back then were often decorated with round ornaments of one color.  I also plan to enter this in the Divas That Cut Paper October Anything Goes challenge.  Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time, Hansi