Garden of Grace: Joy to the World Christmas Card for Amazing Paper Grace

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"Joy to the World" is a favorite Christmas hymn, so I was just delighted to design with this fabulous and elegant Amazing Paper Grace Joy Flourish Doily die set (S5-532).

I started creating this card at a creative weekend with a dear friend. I had selected papers and die cut the doily frame, sentiment, and curls. I knew I wanted to add poinsettias, but thought I'd wait until I got home to finish the blossoms. I like to die cut my petals, and then form the blossoms while watching a bit of television in the evening.

As it turns out I ended up going a little overboard creating blossoms for my poinsettia envelope project earlier this month using the gorgeous APG October Die of the Month: 3D Poinsettia Surprise Envelope. (This set is available only through the APG DOM subscription through October 28 HERE.) I had five extra poinsettias in purple. I wasn't sure they would go with the teal and reds I had selected for this card until I put them together and wow!! The colors look great together, don't you think?

Holly leaves from the Joy Flourish Doily set were die cut in teal patterned paper to add to the floral clusters and snowflakes are die cut in white glitter paper from the Let it Snowman set (S5-533).

You can view all the details on how I created this card with close-ups by scrolling down through the Tips and Techniques section below.

Thank you Amazing Paper Grace for providing the dies used in this project.

11 dies are included in the Joy Flourish Doily Set.

Tips and Techniques

The vintage background paper is cut to 5x5" and the edges are inked lightly with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink to give a shabby vintage feel. The outer frame in a dark teal patterned paper is cut to 5 1/4x5 1/4" giving a 1/8" frame around the card. This layer is inked lightly just at the very edge in Uncharted Mariner.

The doily frame is cut in the same teal paper and inked with more of the Uncharted Mariner. This frame is backed in a neutral patterned paper which is inked around the edges with Gathered Twigs.

Here are the poinsettias created with the 3D Poinsettia Surprise Envelope October Die of the Month. I used purple paper for the petals and teal for the center with green leaves. The berries are Pine by Me Prills. The petals, leaves, and centers are cut and inked before shaping, then glued together.

More of these gorgeous poinsettias. The holly leaves are from the Joy Flourish Doily set cut in the same teal, and inked with Uncharted Mariner.

The scrolled curls are cut from Gold metallic paper.

These sweet snowflakes are cut from white glitter paper with the Let it Snowman die set.

Texture is added by adhering teal mica flakes, then going back in and adhering teal microbeads over the flakes that are underneath the floral clusters and sentiment die cut. Don't you just adore a bit of sparkle and shine on a Christmas card?!

Joy is cut from a dark red patterned paper and again from gold metallic paper. The pieces are offset when glued together to show a sliver of the gold underneath.

The banner for "To the World" is cut using a die from the Sweet Leaf Mini Slimlines set (S5-508). Once cut, the word sentiment is centered into the banner and die cut again.

I hope you've been inspired to pull out non-traditional colors to create a shabby vintage Christmas card for someone special in your life.

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