Festive Friday 2025 #35

I went back to those #kcc19 envelopes that were made up ready to go and decided to make three for today’s Festive Friday project.

For all three I used the same focal point (the gorgeous stag which is a magazine stamp) and did the same idea for the background card blank that was a 6×6 card blank as the panels for Kendras card challenge are sized for US sized card blanks.

Let’s start with sketch 7 card which is so easy to do and definitely not a design I could have come up on my own!

After sticking the panels down onto the red and mounting it on the Kraft I added the stag head (I stamped and coloured them all using promarkers).

I then used Vintage photo distress ink to stamp a sentiment all over the front of the card blank … I just stamped randomly so that I knew a fair amount of it would be visible behind the panel.

I then stamped the main sentiment and cut it I it and added that to the front.

No embellishment required for this or any of the others as I thought that they looked done when I had finished the background and the sentiment on top!

Sketch 12 has those fun triangle elements and the little strips of patterned paper but then the rest are solid panels so I decided to emboss the white panel under the stag head.

This time I chose two sentiment stamps for the background card blank and chose greens to stamp them in. The main sentiment I stamped in the darker green before cutting it out and adhering it.

Love the texture of the embossing folder (I chose the debossed side for the top).

Sketch 14 felt like it needed stitching but didn’t want to get the machine out so went with faux stitching on some elements and doodled lines for the other parts.

I kept to the one scripty sentiment for the background and the focal sentiment. I chose black for the ink to go with the doodled elements and then mounted the main sentiment to give it some distinction against the background.