Happy Holidays Card

Used the Candy Cane die set from Lawn Fawn for this card I just made:

Being a candy cane I knew I wanted a red and white stripe on the card front so I dug through the stash. The only smaller stripe card stock I have is an old card stock from Recollections - Michaels. I only had one full sheet and a partial sheet so I decided I better not use it all up at once as I do not know if I can get any more. To save that striped card stock for this card I used this rectangle frame die set from the stash to cut out a rectangle frame:

I used the center die in the set and put it on my striped card stock at an angle for die cutting:

Once this was die cut I made the card base - used white #110 card stock and cut and scored it at the top. Put tear n tape behind the striped frame and put that onto the card front:

 Used scrap white and red card stocks and cut out two of the candy canes from the die set:

This die set has the dies for the layered candy canes, a bow, holly and layered berries. For the card I used scrap green card stock and cut out the holly die. Then used red glittered card stock and cut out the berries. For the edges of the holly leaves I added Stickles for some sparkle and shine. I layered the berries and put those on top of the holly leaves using liquid glue. Assembled the two candy canes. For the bottom candy cane I put tear n tape on that and put that on the card front in the framed area. Used foam dots for the second candy cane that goes over the top of the bottom candy cane for dimension. Used liquid glue and added the holly/berries piece to the center of the candy canes. Used red gems and put three of those on the card front.

The hot foiled sentiment plate is from WaffleFlower.com "Elegant Christmas Hot Foil Plate". I used gold hot foil to foil this onto white card stock using my Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil machine. I used the matching die to cut that out. I had bought this set last year and when I got it I hot foiled this sentiment plate in lots of colours of hot foil and I die cut them all out and kept them in a Christmas sentiment stash box so this year I have these already for card fronts or tags or anything I want to use a foiled sentiment on. 

Here is a photo to show the frame on the card front:

Here is a photo to show the shine of the gold foiled sentiment:

Easy card to put together with another way to use printed card stock but to also save your printed card stock...... with the center rectangle that the frame die cut out I made a tag:

For the tag base I used an old stitched tag die set in the stash from Simon Says. I cut the tag base piece out of white #110 weight card stock. Used the rectangle piece my frame die cut out and that was my tag front. For the tag topper and hole reinforcement piece I used textured red card stock from the stash. Made the candy cane using scrap red and white card stocks. I used the bow die from the Lawn Fawn candy cane die set and I cut that out of red glittered card stock. My red glittered card stock has a white core so to keep that from showing I used a red Sharpie marker and went around the edge of the bow so it looks solid red. 

I added the striped card stock to the tag base using liquid glue and also used glue for the tag topper and hole reinforcement circle. I put the candy cane on the tag front using tear n tape. Used red and white twine from the stash for the twine at the tag top. To keep the twine in place I used a glue dot on the top bag of the tag above the hole to press the twine into:

I tied gold bells on the twine at the tag top. Added the red glittered bow to the candy cane front using tear n tape. Added a few red gems to the tag for some sparkle. Easy tag to assemble and another good use of the left over striped card stock print!