Vintage Candy Canes

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin' Up Sweet Candy Canes, Clearly Besotted Sweet Little Sentiments

Ink: Gina K Kraft, Stampin' Up Real Red

Paper: Stampin' Up Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Authentique Christmastime 6x6 paper pad

Accessories: Stampin' Up Sweet Candy Canes Dies, Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips Dies, May Arts Twine

Hello Stampers!  Yet another candy cane card!  For this one I used the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches.

For my card I started by picking out some patterned paper.  After I cut it into a square layer, I inked up the edges to give it an even more distressed look.  Then I adhered it to my cherry cobbler card base.  Next I cut out a very vanilla square and inked up the edges as well, and matted it with cherry cobbler cardstock.  Next up were the candy canes.  I originally stamped them in cherry cobbler, but they were so dark being on the very vanilla cardstock they looked black.  So I tried it with real red ink and that was a closer match to the patterned paper.  So I stamped and die cut the candy canes, and then I inked up the edges of the candy canes as well to keep the distressed look.  I adhered them together, added a twine bow, and adhered them to the square.  For the sentiment I stamped, die cut, inked up the edges, and popped it up over the candy canes.  For the inside, I embellished it with some of the patterned paper and added a sentiment.  I inked up all of the edges to finish the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Terri