The Card Concept: Time To Celebrate

It’s amazing how quickly the days fly by the first week we’re home trying to get unpacked, “undecorated,” and to get back into some semblance of normal routines. I can check off “unpacked,” but not quite yet the other two. I do expect by the end of the weekend that we’ll have put away all the Christmas decorations. I have to admit, however, that I will miss them–particularly the tree and the lighted greens on the mantle. 

All of a sudden, I realized after days of posting nearly every day, it’s been several since I got a blog post written. I do have a card for The Card Concept challenge: Time To Celebrate. I was inspired by the metallic colors in the photo as well as some of the neutral colors. 

Since I needed a masculine card I decided to emboss and stamp the design, from Papertrey Ink’s Sending You Comfort, on kraft card stock. I stamped it in navy blue, and then embossed the leaves with bronze embossing powder. The sentiment from Papertrey’s Penned Elegance is also stamped in navy. Once again, I’d categorize this as a Clean and Simple card–lots of empty space, one layer, and easy to recreate.

It’s impossible to see in the photo above, but I trimmed off a bit of the front of the card, and layered some navy blue cardstock on the inside edge. 

This photo also shows the beautiful shine of the copper embossing powder. 

There’s been only a bit a crafting done as I’m working on the assignments for Sandy Allnock’s Colored Pencil Jumpstart class that Tracy gifted me for Christmas. I’m learning a lot, but it’s not going quickly!