First Christmas Card of the Year

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It's June 13th, and I have made my first Christmas card of the year!  Hopefully these posts will become semi-regular in this secondish half of the year so the end of the year isn't too stressful.

I had so much fun playing with an inky panel for the card I shared on Tuesday, that I pulled another from my stack for a Christmas card.

I thought it would be fun to use a non-traditional color.

This was really a very quick card to create.  I used Distress Snowfall Grit Paste which I added a little squirt of Picket Fence Distress Paint to, spread that through the Stylized Mandala stencil and then set the panel aside to dry.

The Large Joy die (one of my go to Christmas sentiment dies) shadow piece was cut from a dark purple cardstock, while the sentiment itself was cut from a light pink cardstock.  I wanted to add some texture to the sentiment to mimic the background, so I spread some Grit Paste over it as well as the secondary sentiment strip from the From Me Christmas Sentiment Strips set.

Once all my Grit Paste had dried, the stenciled panel was adhered to my card base, and the sentiment to the shadow piece.  

The sentiment was adhered directly to my stenciled panel with liquid adhesive, and I popped up a secondary sentiment strip with foam tape.

Not my usual Christmas card, but I'm pretty happy with the result!