Planning a Christmas party or Cookie Exchange...One Heart...One Mind has a paper designed with 4 Invitations and 4 Jingle embellishments with card bands and Coveralls...I used the first invite to create an openface invite, used pieces of the Jingle Jingle Coverall to create a fun Christmas Tag. My 3rd Invite used their diecut coverall to enclosed my invitation like a matchbook. What I loved about this project is that once you combine the Spellbinders Nestabilities dies with this great paper line the possibilites are just endless. The jingle circles on the invitation paper were not die cut, but using the scallop nestabitilies I could easily die cut them, even when the images were very close together. Unlike a punch I did not have to worry about how far in I needed to punch to match the image ( i.e. whether my punch would be deep enough to reach the right spot). The other great thing about the Nestability dies is that I can Nest the dies and get mutiple scallops or circles from the same sheet of paper. So if you are cutting up Red Glitter cards from DIe Cuts with a View you can be frugal and die cut the center of the scallop too and save it for later.
See how close the jingle embellishments are..don't worry..just use your nestabilities!!
Currently I use my Spellbinders dies in my cuttlebug, and I do not yet own a magnetic sheet so when I am using two dies together I simply tape the dies down with removeable scotch tape, this ensures the my dies do not shift in my sandwich recipe.
Here I used the Jingle invitation for the inside of the card. If you normally send Photo Christmas Cards, this jingle invitation would be a perfect place to adhere your Christmas Photo and then stamp your message on the left side of the card (this square hides where my ribbon is adhered. Now here is a view of the outside of the card.
For some reason while making this card I kept thinking of olives...which made me think about Martinis..which reminded me that I had a very cute martini stamp..which was now calling out.."what about me...try me.." so here is where I went next:
Now see what I mean about the olives....the edge of the cover all paper really looks like olives!! Here you can see a great example of how creative you can be with all the sizes of Spellbinders Scallop Nestibilities. I chose to mat them off center, just to be a little playful ....now if only I had my rectangle nestabilities too...I could have punched up my be Jolly mat as well!! If you look really close you will also see that I used one of my circle nestabilities as a mask and I colored the edge of the light green paper with my Green Spica Micro Glass Flake Pen. Doesn't it look like I have another mat.
Isn't this just Fun Paper....and remember this is the third post with projects I made in just a few hours and I still have more to share. Still having way to many scraps of beautiful paper - remember I just couldn't stop.
Here I used the leftover, reverse images from my nestabilities diecuts, The Green Spica pen show up better on this card. I also used a Silver Spica Pen to highlght the liquid in the glass. Well I still have one last posts with this great paper...See you tomorrow!! Because remember not only did I make cards,I made matching envelopes too!!
