Alternative Farmhouse Christmas Card for Cardz 4 Galz

Cardz 4 Galz starts a new challenge today, which is “New Beginnings.” For this challenge, we would like to see cards relating to baby, engagement, marriage, job, home etc. There’s so many cards that I could make for this challenge, but a good friend of mine is buying a house. Therefore, I wanted to have a card all ready for her when the time comes. Firstly, I had to choose a stamp of a house – not many of those in my collection but I managed to find one on my holiday shelves. Since I love to use my holiday products all year round, I thought this would be a great time. Plus, Farmhouse Christmas also has coordinating dies, which makes it super fast and easy to use.

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• Firstly, this card is a little unusual in size – 5 1/2″ x 6″ because I just didn’t want to crop it down more than that. Feel free to CASE this into whatever size you like! So, the card base started with White Thick Cardstock, cut at 6″ x 11″ and scored at 5 1/2.” Although I did this at the end of making the card, I used the Basic Border die to make the card front.

Now, the FUN Part!

• Firstly, I pulled the papers from the Beauty of the Earth paper pack. After cutting out the hills with the dies from Farmhouse, I placed them onto the “sky” patterned paper. However, I wanted to get all of the pieces in place before picking where to cut it.
• After stamping Farmhouse Christmas house, I colored it with Stampin’ Blends and cut it out along with two more pieces.
• Then, I stamped, colored and cut out the tree. Since the tree didn’t come with leaves, I used the leaves from Inspired Canopy and cut them out with the same patterned paper as the grass.
• I cut out the fence with the patterned paper from the World of Good DSP.
• After laying all of the pieces down with adhesive, I layered it onto the wood patterned paper. Then, I adhered the entire panel to the card base.
• After cutting the bottom edge with the border die, I stamped, cut the sentiment from Beautiful World and popped it up with dimensionals.
• Finally, the Loose Flower Flourishes were glued around the sentiment.

• Always Fun Challenge – Combine old and new products (new dies and designer papers; old stamp set & dies)
• 613 Avenue Challenge
• Through the Craft Room Door Challenge
• Lemon Shortbread Challenge
• Love To Craft Challenge
• Mix It Up Challenge: ATG + Layering
• Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge
• Die Cut Divas Challenge (uneven edge, friendship, flowers)
• TIME OUT Challenge – Move

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Farmhouse Christmas Photopolymer Stamp Set [148478] $17.00	Beautiful World Cling Stamp Set (English) [152994] $23.00	Beauty Of The Earth 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [155841] $11.50	World Of Good Specialty Designer Series Paper [152491] $15.00
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [159229] $8.25	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $6.00	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [147116] $7.50	Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154882] $9.00
Soft Sea Foam Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154902] $9.00	Pineapple Punch Stampin’ Blends Markers Combo Pack [147280] $9.00	Pale Papaya Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [155519] $9.00	Farmhouse Framelits Dies [147922] $32.00
Basic Borders Dies [155558] $29.00	Tasteful Labels Dies [152886] $31.00	Inspiring Canopy Dies [155963] $32.00	Loose Flower Flourishes [155808] $7.50