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Retro Sketches #78

It took me a little while to figure out what direction to go with this weeks challenge

at Retro Sketches.   I knew I was going to do another Christmas card but it took

several tries before I came up with something I was happy with.

Here's  the sketch...

And what I finally ended up with!

Initially, I used a border stamp which I heat embossed and cut into strips, but just could

not make everything come together the way I wanted.  So I scrapped that idea and 

decided to pull out a Fiskars holly border punch.  I used 2 strips of the punched  border

on each row and added the white strip on top of them.  The next issue I had was with the 

candy cane die cut.  This was done with the Sizzix Sizzlets Christmas Set #6.  I started 

with a base done in the white card stock and then cut it again in red and green in order to

 layer for the final product.  Then I realized I had to put the candy cane on a background

 so that it would pop. I knew I wanted to use the scallop circle punch but had a hard

time figuring out what color worked best and ended up with the white one.  Next I

cut a strip of white card stock and made it into a banner and stamped the greeting in gold.

I inked the edges of the scallop circle with the gold ink as well.  Lastly I added some

jewel dazzles to the holly berries on the punched strips and dazzles jewel borders to

finish off! Ta Da!  Hope you like it -

I am entering this card in the Holiday Card Challenge in the Moxie Fab World.