Hello SCT friends! Welcome to Day 9 of our 12 Days of Holiday Giving! Today our Editor-in-Chief, Susan Opel is here along with another fabulous prize package for you! Ready to see what we have in store for you today? Let’s get started…
“On the 9th day of SCT’s 12 Days of Holiday Giving, SCT shared with me….a beautiful card by Susan Opel with a fantastic prize package from our friends at Doodlebug Design and Honey Bee Stamps!”
“Hello dear readers! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of you from Salt Lake City, UT!
What a whirlwind this time of year is! Behind the scenes here at SCT, we’ve already begun work on the first issue of 2020. We are so excited to take scrapbooking, card making, and paper crafting into a brand new decade. Lots of exciting things in store for sure so stay tuned!
Today I’d like to share a Christmas card I’ve made to celebrate our 12 Days of Holiday Giving. If you now me, this card is seriously not my normal style. Typically my cards are modern and very colorful, but the elegance of the Yuletide collection from My Mind’s Eye really spoke to me.
The focal point of the card is a journaling card from the MME Yuletide collection. I love the vintage vibe and the tall, tall tree! The card has a thin frame of silver glitter that I adore. I stamped the classic looking sentiment on the back of one of the other journaling cards. I really like how the subtle snowflakes add luster to the sentiment.
In order to give this card a bit more zhuzh, I decided to die cut some pine boughs (from Simon Says Stamp) in the same color as the background I’d chosen to highlight the pine tree. I had stumbled upon a card I made quite some time ago with tone on tone die cuts, and I decided to resurrect that idea!
The day I created this card, I saw the most magnificent mixed media project created by Shari Carroll using traditional Christmas products from the Tim Holtz Idea-ology collection. Shari had added “snow” to some trees, and I decided to try out the Glitter Dust spray from Therm O Web paired with some chunky glitter on my pine green boughs. I made a HUGE mess, but I love how it turned out!
As I went to place the panel on my card base, I noticed that the panel was a tad too short and part of the off-white card base was showing. I decided to make that boo boo work for me and trimmed even more off the panel to let a healthy strip of the card base show.
So there you have it, my friends! I hope you enjoyed my foray into a messy little technique and a style that’s not the norm for me.
Here’s to a fantastic holiday with family and friends, and I wish you the very best in 2020!
Susan R. Opel
Editor-in-Chief, Scrapbook & Cards Today
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Day 9 GIVEAWAYS!
Are you ready to see what’s under the tree for our Day 9 prize package? First…
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year! A season for family and giving! Doodlebug would like to offer one very lucky winner an assortment of wintery goodies from our “Winter Wonderland” collection! Thanks to all of you for your support & have a very Merry Christmas!” ~ all your friends at Doodlebug Design
“Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us at Honey Bee Stamps! We are so excited to host today’s SCT 12 Days of Holiday Giving Prize! Today – you could win a $50 Gift Card to purchase anything your heart desires from our shop! Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram, as well as our blog to see all of the amazing things coming from Honey Bee (including an amazing new release, coming January 6th!) Happy Crafting from all of us at Honey Bee Stamps!”
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To enter each day’s giveaways:
For an opportunity to win today’s amazing giveaways, leave a comment below by midnight on December 22nd EST. All winners will be announced on December 23rd at noon EST.
We would also love for you to take a moment to visit today’s sponsors on their Facebook pages or on Instagram to thank them for their generous prizes. Our SCT readers are always so wonderful at saying “thank you” and it’s because of that appreciation our partners love to share with you here throughout the year! Let’s show them how much we are loving these 12 Days of Giveaways! If you don’t already “like” them, you may just want to!
Doodlebug Design on Facebook on Facebook (follow on instagram @doodlebugdesign)
Honey Bee Stamps on Facebook (follow on instagram @honeybeestamps)
Be sure to join us tomorrow for Day 10! Latisha is here and we can’t wait to share her fun project!
That tree is breathtaking.
Awesome! It’s always fun to get new crafting supplies and I love Doodlebug!
Beautiful card! Love it when those journaling cards work as an easy focal point!♡
love the unconventional colors in the collection, so fun!
Beautiful card! I would love that Doodlebug paper for winter pages with my kids!
Your tree is so pretty! These are two of my favorite companies! Thanks for the chance to win.
WOW! Beautiful card! And those prizes!? Well! Amazing, once again!
I love Doodlebug Designs! Thanks for the inspiration for the tree card.
Susan’s Card looks like it took hours to complete! Absolutely breathtaking! I am totally in love with it!
Doodlebugs paper collection is refreshing and soooo adorable! Honey Bee Stamps’ guilt free shopping spree is quite amazing too! Thank you to today’s sponsors for their generosity! Merry Christmas!????????????????????????????????????????????
Love the Xmas tree card. And the fun continues.
In love with the new Doodlebug collection!! All the colors and cute paper designs are always the best!
What fun prizes! Thanks for the chance to win.
Such a beautiful tree!!
The tree card is beautiful. The Doodlebug winter collection is perfect
Doodlebug designs and Honey Bee Stamps are some of my favorite companies for many card designs. Thank you so much for sponsoring SCT 12 days.
Beautiful card, Susan, love the pine boughs and dimension they give to the card. And I so love me some Doodlebug and Honey Bee!!
Love the texture of this card! Gorgeous!
Wonderful giveaway ☺️????
Very elegant card.
What fun I could have with Doodlebug prize and shopping with HoneyBee. Guilt free. Excellent!
Merry Christmas!
This card is beautiful! I love the idea
of snow on the pines! The giveaways
are pretty awesome, too!
I just love that card!!!! Thank you for another generous giveaway and I hope your holidays are a huge blessing!!!
Love the layered, Vintage winter scene with so many eye-grabbing textures and sparkling glitter on Susan Opel’s Vintage Christmas card. Great ideas for flowing with how card-making just goes sometimes; Those “mistakes” became artful features of a truly unique card!
Stunning and classically elegant card! Wonderfully generous prizes from Doodlebug Design and Honey Bee Stamps!
The card is so pretty. The journaling card is the star, but the detailing adds so much. I never thought of using a journaling card on a card. Great idea!
That card is amazing and could it be any easier having that beautiful scene on a journaling card! Thank you for sharing it. It’s gorgeous.
That card is absolutely beautiful. Great job! Thank you all for a chance to win.
I love the vintage look! I am going to have look up glitter dust spray, I am not familiar with that product
Stunning card; love all that glitter and the ‘design innovation’ was meant to be! A generous giveaway from two companies I absolutely LOVE! Thank you for such a fabulous giveaway!
~carol
The card is beautiful. Elegant. Thank you for the chance to win such cool prizes! I love Doodlebug!
Beautifully crafted card!!! Thanks so much for sharing, I’m gonna have to find glitter dust spray!! And thanks again for yet another amazing giveaway!
Stunning card design, love it!
Beautiful!! Thank you for the chance to win all these fabulous prizes.
Vintage card vibe is strong and I LOVE IT! Great job!
Thanks again for the chance at some beautiful prizes!
WHAT A beautiful scene and tree on that card! I LOVE both these companies! That Doodle Bug Design paper is soooo cute! Thanks for the chance!
Such an awesome prize package offered today! Would love to win this! Susan, your card is exquisite. Don’t you all love those happy accidents? Have certainly made my share of those. Thank you to Doodlebug and Honey Bee for your inspiration all year long and Merry Christmas to all.
I love the vintage Christmas vibe!!! It’s beautiful!
Such a beautiful card design, and the tree is beautiful. I am so excited to see these two companies. I love them both and use their products a TON!
The snow on the branches really makes the card.
The doodle bug design paper is really gorgeous….will be great for my Christmas / Winter pages…..thanks for the great giveaways…
Beautiful card! Thanks for the opportunity to win some amazing prizes!
Susan, your card is breath taking–so gorgeous! Sometimes we just have to switch up our style. Thanks to Doodlebug and Honey Bee for their awesome gift packages–Doodlebug’s paper is so fun and wonderful and Honey Bee stamps and products are the bomb!
Absolutely beautiful card!! Thanks for the opportunity to win these prizes!!
Love, love, love the beautiful boughs on the card! Fabulous!!!
What a great card idea! My cards are done for this year but I’ll have to save this post!
Thanks for the giveaways too!
Thanks for the inspiration, such a beautiful card, I need to go and make some of my own now ;)
What a fabulous card! So pretty yet could be masculine as well!
Amazing companies giving amazing products!! Thanks for the chance!
I love that vintage look at Christmas, it’s a beautiful card.
That card is beautiful! That is the kind of card you hate to send to someone after you complete it because it turned out so well. Love the pine boughs. The doodlebug paper pack today is my favorite. I love the colors! $50 at Honey Bee is super generous. Thank you to these vendors for their donation to the 12 days giveaway. It has been so fun to get new ideas by checking each day, and to see products that are showcased!
What a beautiful card!
Love the peaceful scene on the card and love the giveaways.
Oh I love the card! Thanks to doodlebug and honeybee stamps and SCT
What a gorgeous card!
Merry Christmas!! love the life like look and the glitter sparkles,
What a beautiful card. I love the bottom white edge. Sometimes the boo boo’s look they are meant to be. Thank you doodlebug, and honeybee for the generous gift. What fun that will be
Beautiful card! And love giveaways!????
Wow! What a stunning card and scene! So serene. Such generous prizes today from two of my favourite companies. Thank you Honeybee and Doodlebug!
Glad to know I’m not the only one who sometimes makes their card fronts to short! Great save Susan!
Thanks to today’s sponsors for being so generous.
So beautiful, evokes a sense of peace.
Love the vintage feel of this card and thanks for another great day of giveaways!
Love the card. So pretty.
Love the card Susan Opel – – every little detail! Doodlebug paper is so cute and Honey Bee gift card, so fun. Thank you again SCT for the inspiration and promoting these wonderful craft companies!!!
That may not be Susan’s typical style but WOW it speaks to me! Absolutely love it.
Thanks for the prize packages & the inspiration.
WOW that card is gorgeous! So inspiring. Love the use of the journal card and so happy that many companies are doing those for card makers as well as the perfect thing to include on scrapbook pages. I use them often.
Love the branches! Doodlebug 1☃️
What a gorgeous card! I love how you put it together! :)