Hey, crafty friend! Did you know that the most popular color for decorating your Christmas tree during the Victorian era was the color pink? It's one of the reasons I use this hue so often on vintage themed Christmas projects. 

I paired up several of the latest stamp and die sets from Sizzix to create this vintage bauble Christmas card. So let's get right into it! I'll have a bonus card at the bottom of this blog, plus a supply list that you can shop! 

I used the Sizzix Snap and Swap Merry Christmas Thinlits to create the shaped base of this card. I started by creating the frame first, cutting the frame out of the bright pink from the Sizzix Festive Surfacez cardstock pack. To do just the frame, insert the 6 swappable plain edge dies into the slots and hold them in place with some low tack craft tape. 

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There's several other options in this die to cut out some swags or a sentiment, but I just wanted the frame for this. But I love that you get more out of these dies without all the storage space of multiple large dies, thanks to this new technology from Sizzix! 

I then cut the frame's shadow layer out of one of the ombre gradient cardstocks from the Sizzix Mystical Opulent cardstock pack, using one of the ends that was more pink than white. 

To cut the folded card base, simply score and fold a piece of smooth white cardstock in half and then place your shadow die on the cardstock, letting one of the long sides of the die hang over the folded edge. Then send this through your machine! Then glue the Mystical Opulent cardstock shadow layer to your folded card base. 

Now it's time for all of the stamping and embossing! First place a piece of smooth white cardstock into your Sizzix Stencil and Stamp Tool. Using one of the stamps from the Tartan set, ink it up with Victorian Velvet Distress Oxide and stamp it onto the white cardstock. Trim this background to fit inside the frame you just die cut. 

Stamp out the outline stamps for three of the Baubles using Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide onto some more smooth white cardstock. Then use embossing ink to stamp out the fill layer for the two smaller baubles and the bows, plus the snowflake shape in the center of the largest bauble. 

Stamp out 3 bows using the solid layer first, stamping with Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide. Then stamp over it in Picked Raspberry with the plain outline layer and dotted bow layer (I used the plain outline for two of the bows and the dotted for one of the bows). 

Cover the embossing ink with Distress Embossing Glaze in Kitsch Flamingo and use your Sizzix Heat tool to heat emboss it. The glaze is mostly transparent, and will create a shiny appearance while still allowing the first layer of Oxide to show through! 

Next, stamp out 3 ornament caps with strings and use Ranger's Super Fine Embossing Powder in Gold to heat emboss them. 

Then die cut the baubles, ornament caps and bows with the coordinating Framelits. Glue the ornament caps onto the ornaments with Sizzix Express Glue. Add a little cardstock backer to the cutout of the highlight by glueing a scrap of cardstock to the backside and trimming off the excess with scissors. 

Use dotted adhesive to adhere the tartan background to the center of your card front. Pro Tip: hold it to the backside of the frame and use the frame to help you place the stamped background in just the right spot.

Then add foam adhesive to the back of the frame and pop it on top of the tartan background. Use more foam adhesive to pop on the ornaments. Trim the excess string off the top then glue the little bows on with Express Glue. 

Pop on some sparkly gems and/or pearls and hot glue on some paper flowers. Then stamp out a sentiment and cut or die cut it out and pop it on to the flower cluster. 

And now here is that bonus card I created using the same background and large bauble, but with much less dimension and more of the brighter ink colors! 

I used Picked Raspberry for the tartan background. I also stamped the outline bauble stamp onto patterned paper, used gold foil paper for the cap and added some die cut bows and flowers for a change up! 

I hope that you enjoyed these two vintage pink Christmas card ideas and that it inspires to you create something beautiful for this upcoming holiday season. Until next time, happy crafting!

Adrienne

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