Merry & Bright Christmas Card

Stash stuffs used for this card for Christmas:

Hard to get a great photo when using mirrored card stocks but this is the card I made for Christmas using stash stuff. To begin with I used the Simon Says Stamp "Twinkly Lights" die set:

I die cut the strands out using a dark green card stock in the stash. Then I used the two bulb dies in the set and cut out mirrored card stocks in different colours for the bulbs:

Used liquid glue to add the bulbs to the strands:

Set those aside. For the card base I used the same dark green card stock that I used for the green strands and I cut and scored that at the top, landscape style. For the white card front I cut a piece of white card stock 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.   I used an older Taylored Expressions embossing folder:

and embossed this. With that embossed I looked through the rectangle dies in the stash and decided to use the Essential Rectangles die set from Essentials by Ellen (Ellen Hutson):

I used the same mirrored gold card stock for the frame that I used for the gold bulbs and cut out the largest die frame in this die set. Used liquid glue to put the frame on the embossed piece and set that aside to dry. Once that was dried I used scissors to cut around the frame for the card front. Put this embossed rectangle on the card base using liquid glue. Added a couple of the strands of lights over the embossed piece for the card front and let this dry. Once dried I used scissors to trim off any strand pieces hanging over the edges of the card front.

For the "merry & bright" I used the die set from Simon Says Stamp - "Merry & Bright" and this die set also has small star dies as well as a couple of snowflake dies:

I used the mirrored gold card stock and cut the words out. Also cut them out again using white card stock and layered these words together using liquid glue. For the shadow piece behind the "merry.." I wanted to be able to see the bulbs under it so I used a light weight piece of vellum and cut that out. Put the word dies onto the vellum shadow piece using liquid glue. Added glue behind the letters on the shadow vellum piece and put this onto the card front

Here is a different angle to show the shine on this card:

This next photo shows the embossing on the white card front under the words and strands of lights:

Happy to be able to use more of the stash products to make a fun card. With using the mirrored card stocks for the bulbs and the greeting coloured gems were not needed for the card front. A fun holiday card finished and ready for the holiday ahead...