Gift of Joy – Rustic Christmas

Design Time: For the Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#540) Sketch.  Today’s card can be found on page 39 of the September 2025 – December 2026 Mini Catalog.  Switching from a Fall theme to a Christmas theme.

CASE: (Copy and Steal Everything) Making it the same; (Copy and Slightly Edit) Almost the same with a little variation; (Copy and Selectively Edit) Changing things.  You are welcome to choose how you create.

I was inspired by the Just Us Girls (#802) Mood Board with the rustic elements and traditional colors.

Sharing with Color Dare (#678) for the palette of browns adding Garden Green and Cherry Cobbler and Inspired By (#363) for the rustic napkin ring images and natural linen tones (variations of brown with wood).

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Crumb Cake cardstock.
• Split Background Panel: (3½” x 4¼”) Bauble patterned piece of paper and (2” x 4¼”) Striped Knit patterned piece of paper from the retired Warmth & Cheer Designer Series Paper stack.
• Seam: (½” x 4¼”) Dark Wood patterned paper from the Country Woods Designer Series Paper pack, torn.
• Shapes – Stars: (4” x 4”) Light Wood and (4” x 8½”) Dark Wood patterned papers, again from the Country Woods Designer Series Paper pack, die-cut with layering Star dies from the retired Stars Framelits Dies set. 
• Banner: (4⅜” x ⅝”) Garden Green cardstock.
  • The sentiment, Happy Christmas, from the Gift of Joy stamp set was stamped with Versamark ink and heat-set with White Embossing Powder.
• Strip: (5” x ¼”) Cherry Cobbler Ribbon, retired, still in my stash.

All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  The smaller Star was popped up with Dimensionals and a few Pressed Flower Motifs embellishments were added to complete the card.

Changing out a design and making it your own is always fun!  I really like the rustic feel of this traditionally colored holiday card.  I hope you do too!

Looking forward to seeing how the sketch inspires you.

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.  Cheers,  Jolanda!

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