Framed Friends Christmas card

I’ve just made another Christmas card to add to my pile. I actually made a really huge mistake, that led me to switching up the card, and I truely think it is better than what it would have been. I played Craft Roulette to come up with this card. These are this weeks parameters

This is how I used the parameters, the framed penguin “drops down” when the card is closed. Supper table colours, wood frame/wood table, the greens and reds are salad colours, blue and white could be the table cloth and the other colours are neutral. The season I chose was Christmas, and there are red mirror cardstock accents and little gems.

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So I was making this card on the fly so unfortunately I am missing a few photos, but I’m pretty sure I have what is needed to re create this card.

1A- the card base is green, and it is a 5 1/4” card base the cream coloured panels are not exactly 4 3/4” square but I knew I was going to cover the uneven side with the border

B- I cut red frames to use as matts, I cut the centers out to conserve cardstock and to get rid of some of the bulk, dimensions below.

C- I cut the borders from retired Stampin Up paper, dimensions below

D- I added all the pieces as shown and used a border from Border Blends Party to cover where the border edge meets the cream cardstock.

2A- I cut out the Holly and berries using the Pattern Plate Holly dies

B- I added shadding with a Versa Mark Marker, and highligts with a white Gelly Roll pen

C- I added to the card base as shown.

3A- I added the panels and borders to the inside as shown.

B- I diecut the frame, the back, and the mechanism from the Flip Frame Pop up as shown. (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ )

C- I decorated the frame with the reindeer from the Christmas Animals dieset. I added some Holly, berries and a few gems.

D- add the mechanism piece to the card, Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️

This is where I realized my mistake. Had I refreshed my memory on how to assemble the card I would have been reminded that the card needs to be at least 5 1/2” long, mine is 5 1/4” AND I didn’t have the mechanism as high as it could have went, sooooooo the frame is going to completely hang over the edge 🤦🏻‍♀️

To fix my mistake I decided to put the reindeer on the right side of the card, and I would put a smaller frame on the mechanism. I have a thing about having groups of three so I decided to make 2 smaller frames for the left side.

4A- the penguin and bear are from the Winter Animals dieset, and the frames were cut from woodgrain paper, both frames are from the Slim Frames dieset, I added Holy, berries and gems as well.

B- MISTAKE #2, I originally adhered the frame centered on the mechanism, but it didn’t close right so I had to move it slightly to the right side of the frame (when you are looking at it)

5A- I decided to add shading with a Versa Mark Marker, and highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen.

B- add the framed animals as shown, I added a few extra gems

6- using Wordset 3 Holiday I die cut “Seasoms Greetings” from the red mirror cardstock and the woodgrain cardstock and layered as shown and added it to the card front. I added a some more Holly, berries and gems.