CAS Christmas June Challenge - happy holidays

Hello everyone,

I'm back to the CAS Christmas Challenge Design Team, and I hope to inspire you to get started making Christmas cards! 😊

Linda is hosting this month's challenge and she chose Bells as the theme.
Our Guest Designer is LeAnne (weeinklings).

I thought foiling was perfect to give bells a metallic feeling, so here's my card.

[How I made the card]
1. Spread a thin layer of Transfer Gel over a piece of mixed media paper.
2. Put a piece of foil sheet over the paper and ran it through the laminator.
3. Die-cut bells from the foiled sheet.
4. Die-cut borders from a white front panel, heat-embossed the sentiment, and glued the bells on the front panel.
5. Brushed glitter gloss over the base card so that sparkles from the glitter peek through the thin border apertures.

[Side Note]
I die-cut bells from a black toner sheet at first, but I didn't get smooth foiling on them. There were a lot of scratches as you see in the picture below.

So I used Transfer Gel instead. The Gel worked better for me.


There are tons of inspiring cards from our Designers and the Guest Designer, LeAnne on the challenge site. Please check it out and play along with us.

I used the bell die set for the first time, so I'm entering this card into NBUS Challenge #15.

Stamp: Snow Globe Sentiments (My Favorite Things)
Paper: Whisper White (Stampin' Up!), Mixed Media Paper (Strathmore - 140lb.)
Ink: VersaMark (Tsukineko)
Accessories: Jingle Bell Set Dies (Impression Obsession), Modern Border Trim Dies (Memory Box), Deco Foil Transfer Gel (iCraft), Deco Foil (Wild Cherry, Teal, Ocean Blue, Copper - iCraft), Embossing Powder (Black - Stampin' Up!),  Laminator, Connect Glue (Gina K)