Jesus Is The Reason For The Season

In my mind there is no doubt about it, Jesus is the reason for the season!!

I was delighted when Stampin’ Up! issued a new stamp set with a “Jesus is the Reason for the Season” sentiment.  I love the Reason for the Season Stamp Set, especially the three sentiments in the set, and “Jesus is the Reason for the Season” is my favorite. The font of the sentiments is gorgeous.  I used the Stampin’ Up! Reason for the Season Stamp Set and other products (see below) to create this card.  To accommodate the size of the largest die that I used, I had to make the card a 6″ x 6″ card.


UPDATE:  This card was selected for one of the FAVORITES of the week ending December 20, 2015 on Splitcoaststampers.com.


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Jesus is the Reason for the Season

The Spellbinders Holiday Decorative Holly Frame Dies (S6-042), Spellbinders Holiday 5×7 Holly Frame, and Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia Dies (S5-055) are the primary features on the card.  Also featured on the card is the Stampin’ Up! Home for Christmas Designer Series Paper.

Reason for the Season Stamp SetSpellbinders Decorative Holly FrameSpellbinders 5x7 Holly FrameJesus is the Reason for the Season

Jesus is the Reason for the Season

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Jesus is the Reason for the Season

Jesus is the Reason for the Season


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Jesus is the Reason for the Season

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Jesus is the Reason for the Season

JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON

Reason For The Season Christmas Card

Presenting to you today is a Reason for the Season Christmas Card made with Bohemian Designer Series Paper and the Stampin’ Up! Reason for the Season Stamp Set.  I used the color combination of Mossy Meadow and Blackberry Bliss  to create the card. I think the color combination is gorgeous. What do you think?  (After viewing the card, leave a comment or question in the “bubble” to the right of the post title.)

Reason for the Season Christmas Card

Stampin' Up! Bohemian DSP

Stampin’ Up! Bohemian Designer Series Paper (#138446)

Reason for the Season Stamp Set

Stampin’ Up! Reason for the Season Stamp Set (#139730)

Spellbinders 5x7 Holly Frame

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How did I create this Reason for the Season Christmas Card?  Here are my steps:

  • To create the Reason for the Season Christmas Card, I used my Big Shot Die Cutting Machine to cut out the holly border for the first layer of the card.  The holly border is a die cut from Spellbinders Holiday 5 x 7 Holly Frame Dies (S6-040). While the holly border die cut remained in the die, I used Mossy Meadow and Real Red markers (Stampin’ Up!’s) to color the holly leaves and berries. (Later I used Red Stickles glitter glue on the berries.)  
  • Notice the Blackberry Bliss poinsettias on the four corners of the holly frame (see above pic). They were created also with the Spellbinders Holiday 5 x 7 Holly Frame Dies.  If you have been visiting my site, you have noticed that I am using these dies a lot lately. They are so intricate, cut so well, and create gorgeous die cuts.

Reason for the Season Christmas Card

  • At the top-left of the card, I stamped a Blackberry Bliss poinsettia with Mossy Meadow leaves.  These stamps are from the Stampin’ Up! Reason for the Season Stamp Set.  After stamping the poinsettia, I used a Spellbinders Curved Borders Two die and the Blackberry Bliss design from the Stampin’ Up! Bohemian Designer Series Paper to create the curved border that separates the Blackberry Bliss poinsettia from the sentiment.
  • The Jesus is the Reason for the Season sentiment, which is also a stamp from the Stampin’ Up! Reason for Season Stamp Set, was stamped on a piece of Whisper White Card Stock.  I embossed the sentiment with Gold Embossing Powder and added a touch of gold (from a Uni-Ball Gel Pen) around the rim of the sentiment. I used the retired Stampin’ Up! Deco Labels Framelits to cut out the sentiment and a Mossy Meadow mat. Behind the sentiment is a row of Stampin’ Up! Gold Sequin Trim (#132983).

Reason for the Season Christmas Card

  • On the card’s inside, I used a holly and berry stamp from the OutlinesRubberStamp.com (gone out of business), to stamp a border.  I used a sentiment from the retired Stampin’ Up! stamp set, Christ is Born.  Because the card is 5 x 7, there is plenty of white space for a personal note despite the stamp images that I added.

Reason for the Season Christmas Card

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Butterfly

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Stamping with Guneaux Designs

By

Beverly Polen

Reason for the Season Christmas Card

REASON FOR THE SEASON CHRISTMAS CARD

Home for Christmas DSP Gate Fold Card

The Home for Christmas DSP from Stampin’ Up! is so nostalgic and takes me back to my childhood.  I love the designs of the paper which are shown below:Home for Christmas DSP

For my card, I chose the poinsettias design.  And to enhance the design from the Home for Christmas DSP, I used the Spellbinders Holiday 5 x 7 Holly Frame Template to die cut my gate fold card.

Home for Christmas DSP Gate Fold Card

Isn’t it beautiful?

Spellbinders 5x7 Holly FrameThe holly and poinsettia die cuts from the Spellbinders Holiday 5 x 7 Holly Frame match the Home for Christmas DSP perfectly. The picture to the left is of the Spellbinders dies.

After cutting a piece of 10″ x 71/4″ Very Vanilla Card Stock (Stampin’ Up! item #101650), I scored and folded the card stock to form a gate fold card.  I  scored the piece of card stock at the 3″, 4″, 6″ and 7″ marks.

I folded the card stock in this order:  3″ score line is a mountain fold, 4″ valley fold, 6″ valley fold, and 7″ mountain fold.  Using my Big Shot and cutting plates, I laid the 5″ x 7″ holly frame onto my magnetic plate and cutting plate, folded the card stock into a gate fold, laid the card on top the holly frame, laid another cutting plate on top of the gate fold card, and run it through the big shot.  Leaving the cut gate fold card within the frame, I used green and red inks to emboss along the edges.  This picture below gives you a better idea.

Home for Christmas DSP Gate Fold Card

For the two sides of the inside of the card, I felt that the back side of the poinsettias design of the Home For Christmas DSP just would not look good.  This is the back side of the poinsettias design:

Home for Christmas DSP

The holly design within the Home for Christmas DSP is too bold to me for this purpose. Therefore, I decided to dig into my stash of retired designer series paper for something that would better fit the poinsettias.  I found the holy design of the old Stampin’ Up! Berry Bouquet Specialty Designer Series Paper that is more muted.  That was it!  It matched perfectly!  Thus, you’ll see it on the inside of the card.

Home for Christmas DSP Gate Fold Card

Home for Christmas DSP Gate Fold Card

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I added to my gate fold card two sentiments from the Stampin’ Up! Reason for the Season Stamp Set (Item #139730).  The picture to the right shows one and the second one can be seen on the card’s inside in the above pictures.

Reason for the Season Stamp SetHome for Christmas DSP Gate Fold Card

 

 

 

 

 

I embellished the outside sentiment with Stampin’ Up! Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder (Item #101930) and a poinsettia made with a couple dies from the Spellbinders Holiday 5 x 7 Holly Frame die cuts.  I used Stampin’ Up! Crystal Effects on the poinsettia.

I hope you enjoyed the card as much as I did making it!  Don’t forget to leave a comment!

Butterfly

God’s Blessings!

Stamping With Guneaux Designs

By

Beverly Polen

Home for Christmas DSP Gate Fold Card

Home for Christmas DSP Gate Fold Card