When do you start your Christmas card making? Do you do it all year round? Start with Christmas in July? Have a regular Rudolph craft day each month? Are you a last minute dot com creator? Or are you like me and start in September and are all over it by the end of October? Why are we even discussing the topic seeing as it's only August! Well as part of my mini unexpected Colour Combos for masculine cards series one of the colour palette's is called Festive Fella so it just had to be done!
Now the Festive Fella palette is made up of a deep dark blue/green colour called secret sea combined with a rich shade of red called cherry cobbler. The pop of colour in this palette is the beautiful bright turquoise called costal cabana.
I love that this stamp set isn't just for Christmas it covers birthdays and more too!
I stamped the cute puppy and coloured him using Stampin Blends. These alcohol markers are available in the same colours as the colour palette except for the costal cabana. There is a lighter version of turquoise called pool party and as Blends come in a duo pack of light and dark the dark worked just fine 😉. I also stamped and fussy cut out 5 of the strings of lights from the stamps to wrap around the pup.
Next I took out the Alphabet A La Mode dies along with cardstock in the 3 colours and cut out my sentiment. I adhered the letters onto a plain white mat then using 3d foam adhered the pup in place too.
The background was created by adhering strips of cardstock diagonally across a piece of cardstock slightly larger than my card front. I find it easier to cut the background down especially when covering the entire card front. After adhering this panel to the card base I adhered the focal panel on top.
For the inside of the card I stamped more of the lights and added an off cuts of the background panel.
This Festive Fella colour palette is now a firm favourite 😍 I'm thinking not just for Christmas either! And definitely not just for the men! What do you think ?
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