 
Hi there blog friends! I’m back today with another Christmas Card; a gatefold card. Today we’re showing JustRite Christmas Inner Thoughts and as a special treat – I used new Spellbinders Create-A-Flake 5 on the opening and on the inside. They are brand new for July 2013 and gorgeous!!! I felt like a gatefold was the perfect format to show how nicely the sentiments from Christmas Inner Thoughts work and they’ll slide nicely inside a top fold card too. The gatefold is made using Spellbinders Gilded Gate Two. There are two gates, one on each side of the fold. The opening has a round element, Spellbinders Decagon, and on top is Create-A-Flake 5. On the inside I used all but one of the flakes in the set, two are stacked and two are used as single elements. The second tier is embossed with Spellbinders Dainty Dots.
No recap today because I’m not sure I could explain how I arrived here, but I will put this one on the tutorial list. I’ll do even better, someone can win this one – I’d love to send it out to one of you. Leave a comment on my post today and stop by to leave a comment on my post tomorrow and I’ll use random.org to pick day 1 or day 2 then random.org again to pick a winner. That would be one Christmas Card done for you already!!
Please stop by and see the other ladies on the design team, their links are below. They’ve rolled up their sleeves and created some wonderful Christmas projects. Also there is a sale going on at JustRite – 20% off of Faber Castell products. Last, but certainly not least, please pop out to the JustRite Inspiration Blog and leave a comment for the $100 giveaway – you can read about it HERE.
I must apologize, I wasn’t thinking clearly on my last post – so much going on – I gave you the wrong date, so let me try this again. Sneak peaks with Spellbinders start on Thursday at noon – as always there will be prizes so pop in and be sure to register, it’s going to be an exciting week!!
Hi there blog friends! I know you just saw a 4th of July card from me, but I’m switching gears to bring you my first Christmas card of the year. Each year I say I’ll start my holiday plans early and inevitably I come in with a last minute frenzy to make hand made cards. Every year I have hope and none more than this year! We’re celebrating Christmas in July so I put together a card using elegant die cuts and a new set of Christmas stamps from JustRite Papercrafts called Grand Christmas Sentiments. The filigree die cut is Spellbinders A2 Filigree Delight and the bib that you see inside the oval is a die that’s being made available to the public, by request. It came from one of my kits this year and we sold out of them so now they have been remanufactured. JustRite Custom Die Filigree Corners was designed by me and I’m tickled they are coming out as part of JustRite’s August release – I can’t tell you how many people emailed to ask how they could get their hands on this set. Lastly a timeless favorite is back in the mix with Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia – it’s a staple in my Christmas crafting toolbox. By the way, the lovely detail on the Poinsettias is made a clear stamp set that matches the die called Festive Poinsettia.
As always, I try to recap the card I’m showing, so you can make it yourself – this one is an absolute breeze! I really hope you’ll give it a try!
So to recap the layers from the bottom up, cream card base 5-1/2″ x 7″, foam tape, red matting layer 6-3/8″ x 5-1/8″, design paper layer 6-1/4″ x 5″, foam tape, die cut layer of Spellbinders Grand Ovals (with sentiment) and JustRite Filigree Corners (small corner) and A2 Filigree Delight stacked together, Spellbinders Poinsettia. Bow and flowers placed on appropriate layers.
| SUPPLIES I USED |
Stamps: JustRite Papercrafts – Grand Christmas Sentiments, Festive Poinsettia
Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Smooth Natural White 80lb, Bazzill – Red, The Paper Studio – Gold Foil, My Minds Eye – Print
Ink: Amuse – Cherry
Accessories: JustRite Filigree Corners, Spellbinders A2 Filigree Delight, Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia, Spellbinders Grand Ovals, Seam Binding, Recollections Pearls, Sewology button, Darice Pearl, gold embossing powder, Becca’s Bow Maker |
Peek in and see what the remainder of the design team ladies are sharing today!
More to come this week from JustRite and please be sure to come and check in on me on Wednesday (oops) Thursday, when I’ll be sneak peeking something new from Spellbinders.
Edited to Add: In the early hours this morning, I came to learn that longtime, dear friends of mine are missing at sea off the coast of New Zealand. I’m in a state of shock, I knew they were traveling but did not know they had gone missing. New Zealand authorities have given up the hunt but there’s still some thought that the boat could be drifting slowly with torn sails and will reach the coast of Australia soon. Please if you have a moment, say a prayer for my friend Rosemary Dyche, her husband David and son David Jr. as well as four other crew members. Their boat, the Nina, is one that my late husband John crewed on during a sail up the Gulf of Mexico during his time off about 15 years ago. They invited us to sail to the Azores with them but kids, work and demands at home put that out of reach. I hope you don’t mind me sharing, I feel helpless and would be ever so grateful if positive voices could come together in hope – here’s the latest update I know of . A favor, if any of you in the South Pacific hear news, please email me through my contact page.
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I’m having a wonderful 4th of July with friends and family. If you ask me, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Going into it, we were scheduled for 100% rain which means no hope of a sunny day but I knew there was 100% chance we were going to have a good time any way. Prediction = true :-) My prayer for all is that you hug the folks around you and understand no matter what comes our way daily, we’re blessed to have our family, our friends (near and abroad) and each other. Today I’m so happy and proud to express an appreciation for my country so I cooked up a true red, white and blue card.
I started out with Spellbinders Grand Decorative Labels One and cut a card base using the Spellbinders Hinged Card Base tutorial (someone always asks :-)) On top of that I layered Spellbinders A2 Filigree Delight (I sliced an inch or so out of the center then taped the two pieces together along the back). I then cut the center out using Spellbinders Standard Circles SM. I finished off with Spellbinders Labels Twenty Four (stamped with Waltzingmouse Stamps Florentine Frippery), that I scored on each pointed edge and curved using a pencil. Recently Waltzingmouse Stamps released a cool patriotic set of stamps, so I knew that I’d be using USA 1776 today. I adore safety pins and I picked up these antique 7Gypsies pins recently and I thought it would be the perfect place to thread on a red, white and blue pearl.
| SUPPLIES I USED |
Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps – USA 1776, Florentine Frippery
Paper: Masters Touch 140lb Watercolor Paper, Bazzill
Ink: Amuse – Cherry, Versafine Onyx Black
Accessories: Spellbinders A2 Filigree Delight, Spellbinders Grand Decorative Labels One, Spellbinders Standard Circles SM, Spellbinders Labels Twenty Four, Seam Binding, Darice Pearls, 7Gypsies Antique Pin, Recollections Pearls, Button, Becca’s Bow Maker |
Hugs friends, enjoy your fireworks!!
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I would love to win a card made by the lively and talented Becca!
Sorry, mistyping on my iphone :(. Should have been the lovely and talented Becca!
Oh wowza, this is gorgeous! Looking forward to your tutorial, you always make everything so clear when showing us, thank you for that. Would love to win this, really anxious to see the sneak peeks that start tomorrow.
I am definitely your BIGGEST fan and never miss sending a comment. So, I definitely should be the one to win it and besides yesterday was my birthday LOL. No really Becca this is absolutely marvelous = love it.
Mstgane
Ann
Thank you for the opportunity to win a handmade card by YOU!!!!!!
I just love your work!!!!!
I Love the new Card it makes a beautiful Christmas card. This makes me wont to start my Christmas cards.
Awesome! This is absolutely beautiful! Thanks for the chance to win!!
What a BEAUTIFUL card!
Absolutely beautiful – but so mind-boggling as “how to…?” Just got to master this type of card! Thanks for sharing. Nelda
Oh please please please pick me, I love this card. It is so gorgeous
You always make the prettiest cards!!!
Becca – would you mind doing a mind-meld for those of us who lack creativity? This Christmas card is absolutely stunning!
Amazing use of the Gilded Gate 2 die – I would never of thought of that – really innovative and it really works – will give it a go – thanks for the inspiration and looking forward to your next video tutorial – they’re fabulous. Thanks for sharing.
I love this card, but I love everything you make! Your pieces are a work of art, and I would be extremely happy to have a chance of owning one of them.
As always, I’m awed by your card! Snowflakes are one of my favorite things (don’t see them much here in TX). Sure cant wait to see the Spellbinders release! Would love to have your beautiful card!
Your cards always amaze me and take my breath away. Thank you for sharing your beautiful creations with us.
This card is simply gorgeous Becca! I love how you have used the gate die – it’s so effective! I love Justrite stamps and Spellbinders dies and I can’t wait to be able to get some of the new releases.
A beautiful card Becca!
I love your card.
What a lovely (and inventive card). I knew there were other ways to use specific die cuts. Thank you for sharing one!
So imaginative! This is absolutely beautiful! You amaze me at the way you come up with the ideas to use the spellbinders dies.
I bought those gate dies and all I could see is a gate on a card.
What an amazing and beautiful card. I would be so very honored to win one of your cards. You are a true artist and inspire us all.
thank you
OH MY!!!!!!!!!!! :)
When I opened up your page today I couldn’t help but sit back stunned while my mind repeated “How Pretty”. It is absolutely stunning! I love red and white together, even though an elderly lady once said to me that you shouldn’t put red and white together as one is blood, the other is tears. I’ve never forgotten it even though it never changed my thoughts.
Your Blog is addictive and I’m always eager for the next round of mind-blowing talent :-).
What a thrill it would be to win such a beautiful card,
Thanks
Fabulous! Fabulous! Absolutely fabulous!
Hugs
Anne (UK) x
Would love to win one of your cards. This gatefold card is stunning…..xx
This is stunning. Just letting you know, I will CASE this card. This will be a Christmas card for my parents and my MIL.
All I can say is WOW!! What an awesome card – you never disappoint!
Becca: This is absolutely stunning!! I love gate-fold cards and all your fine detail die cuts certainly take it up several notches. I would love to win your card but you can be sure I’d be keeping it for inspiration, not giving it away {unless it was to my husband – he likes your cards too and he’d share. :) }
What a beautiful card! Those dies are amazing and doubling the snow flakes is so cool.
Becca, this is the most amazing card! I will keep this card if I win! Thank you for the opportunity.
Becca, your cards are always so stunning. I hate to say it, but no one can create with spellbinder dies the way you do. You have such a great eye for munipulating and combining these dies to create such beautiful layers on your cards. This card is just gorgeous!!!!! Your creations just never dissappoint. Thank you for always sharing.
Marcie
It’s always so amazing how you come up with different ways to use the dies. I totally love this!! Now I think I do need that gate die.
OOOoooohhh!! So lacy! What a wonderful Christmas card. Just fabulous.
Once again you blow my mind with your talent and creative designs.
Becca, All your cards are always so ‘polished’, you are amazing !
Blessings to you & yours, Holly
Stunning card Becca thanks for the chance to win .Melanie UK
omg. ..so beautiful. Still waiting for your tutu tutorial. Love calli
I LOVE the gate card, absolutely beautiful, as all your work is!
And yes, yes, yes please post a tutorial on this card, such a work of art!
You always come up with such creative ways to use the dies. Thanks for the inspiration. It would be so cool to win your stunning creation.
Becca, you never cease to amaze me. No matter what you work with your cards always take my breath away. You create the most beautiful cards I have ever seen.
Thanks Becca… Your card is beautiful. And I am also a winner when you share your art with us. Thanks again. Hugs
Wow, Becca! Another stunner! This card, like all other cards made by you, is absolutely beautiful. I would cherish receiving any card made by your very talented hands. I’m crossing my fingers!
This looks fabulous, Becca & very dramatic too with the stark contrast of the red & white.
WOW WOW and WOW… The card is beautiful. The colors and details just awesome. Thank you for sharing, you’re so blessed!
Hi Becca, This card is just lovely. I would love to win the stamp set. Thanks for always sharing your wonderful talents and the opportunity to win.
its a gorgeous card Becca, don’t know how you manage it!
shirl
This is such a LOVELY card and inspiring too! Thank you
Becca for your inspiration.
Becca, I love every thing that you share and look forward to receive a notification of a new post. This one is just beautiful.
Another Beckarific card I would love to win! The Lord has blessed you, and thanks for sharing it with all of us.
Absolutely stunning and excellent use of these dies for a gatefold card. I need to try this style soon. Hard for me to think of Christmas right now, but am enjoying seeing your inspiration.
So gorgeous! Thank you for the chance to win! May just have to keep it if I win! : )
Becca I’m in love with your Christmas Card. Your Blog is my favorite for inspiration,
Wow! Your card just knocked my socks off! Remarkable in every respect. Double wow!
Such a beautiful card. I would love to receive it!
I can see why your site is called ‘Amazing’ … You truly are an inspiration … Another gorgeous card xx
I would love to win a card made by you. It is lovely.
Such an amazing creation that inspires me to try my hand on it, but need to buy first the dies.
What a beautiful Christmas card. I wish I had some of the new Spellbinder dies. I just have basic shapes Nesties. But I love them too.
WAUW you´ve just overdone yourself here again Becca. This is soooooooooo gorgeous. Absolutely stunning work here from your hands again hun, and I totally love how you put this one together.
Hope you´re having a great day and that you´ve finally heard from your friends now?
oh my goodnessssssssss, absolutely gorgeous Becca, but of course I expected no less….the gate die is amazing in ways I never thought about…..so glad we have you to get our creative minds thinking outside the box, ty…..once again “amazing”!!! :) hugs
This is absolutly beautiful, as usual. I have been praying for your friends lost at sea. Please keep us updated if any thing new is found out. God bless… denice
not only WOW but double wow wow!!
Truly a beautiful card. Hope I’m the lucky one.
What a gorgeous card. Would love to win it! Thanks for the opportunity.
Oh Becca, this is exquisite!!!
beautiful work as always, your eye for detail is always a pleasure
Becca your Christmas card is absolutely awesome!!!! I would love to win this card and thank you for the opportunity to win your *eye candy*.
That is a seriously beautiful card. You really have a gift when it comes to designing cards.
This is a gorgeous card – so many Spellbinders dies I want! Thanks for sharing!
What a stunning card, Becca and what a fantastic prize! I shall look forward to your tutorial on this. Anyone would be so honored to receive this gift. Thanks for the opportunity!
Oh my gosh! What a gorgeous card! I would save it as a keepsake if I won it! Looks like some new dies & stamps are in my future.
Stunning!! I so love this beautiful card Becca. The Snowflakes are so pretty I really must try and save more pennies to get these beautiful Dies.
It would be wonderful to own a piece of your Gorgeous work Becca.
Hugs Mau xx
Georgeous card, I love it!!!
Hi Becca from across “the pond”. I always look forward to reading your blog and seeing what fabulous cards you have created. I just wanted to say I think your card today is truly amazing. Thanks for sharing.
I look at some of the new Spellbinders dies and think I would never use that one and then you make something fabulous with the die and it is on my want list. Thank you for being such an inspiring enabler!! Hugs Ann
What a fantastic Card!! Love it.
WOW! what a stunning Christmas Card! I just purchased an “early” Christmas gift for myself… Spellbinders Gilded Gate 2 at one of my local retailers where I live. However, to have an original card creation of Becca’s would be SOOOOOOOOOOO awesome!
What an absolutely beautiful card. I can’t wait for the tutorial.
Beautiful card! I love your cards. They are much more involved than the ones that I make and blog.
Oh Becca this is amazing – love red and white for Christmas, and the dies and the way you have used them are stunning,
Blessings
Maxine
Love your cards
Who wouldn’t want to win this awesome beautiful card!!! Thanks for the opportunity.
I love everything you make and would love to win this. I hope someday to be half as good as you. I love Spellbinders too!
As I’m sure you are told this a million times. YOU are amazing. I wish I could come up with the original ideas you do. I’m a great copy cat. All I can say is thank you for sharing you wonderful ideas
Thanks Debbie
Amazing you are. If I could be 1/4 as good as you it would make my day. To win one of your cards would be should a blessing.
Thanks You Sister In Christ
Christine
Becca, you never fail to amaze me. Your beatiful intricate layered cards are just so artistic. How you interchange all the dies to make them so unique. I look forward to your posts. Thanks SO much for your inspiration.
Absoluetly stunning, your artistic flare amazes me how you put all the different dies together, I so love viewing all your creations a wonderful gift you have and I would be so happy to win your card to treasure as a keepsake love it hugs xx
………..Christmas in July……LOVE IT!!! It’s never too early to start working on Christmas cards. I am really in love with today’s gate-fold card…..very pretty! I would love !
Becca, I don’t know how you come up with these designs — from the Great Designer above, huh? This design is gorgeous.
Just beautiful Becca! I guess I will have to state my Christmas wish list for the new dies.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Bonnie
Becca oh wow this is just lovely, those gates are wonderful and love the sentiments.
Hugs Trish.
This card is beautiful – but all of yours are. Love your inventive ways to use dies.
Love this card, all your cards are really lovely, love how you come up with so many ways to use the spellbinders use.
Becca your cards are wonderfully inspiring. I just love each and everyone of them. I now mix more spellbinders dies together to make cards.
Many thanks.
Just delightful – as usual. Love the colours and wonderful dies.
Just beautiful. I always look forward to your tutorials. They teach me so much.
OMG – you have amazing talent! Thanks for sharing it with us!
Beautiful…so elegant looking! I would love to win one of these, thank you for sharing.
This is a beautiful card for Christmas. I would love to see a tutorial for this one. Thank for sharing.
Wow, what a stunning card! I would love to see a tutorial for this one.
This is absolutely gorgeous! The coolness suggested by the beautiful snowflakes helps me to forget that it’s so humid here today I can barely breathe!! Thanks for the chance to win this wonderful card! If I win it, I may have trouble giving it away because it was made by you!!
Would love to win this gorgeous card.
Really? I could win this fabulously gorgeous card created by the one & only Becca?!? OMG That would be so fantastic. It is absolutely stunning.
You’re getting me in the xmas spirit!!!! Great card!
Oh Becca!
Your card is absolutely WONDERFUL.
I LOVE all the beautiful dies put together to make this delicate card!!
Hugs, Candy
Becca, as usual this card is BEAUTIFUL! I love getting your posts, opening them up to see something you don’t ever see. Very different, beautiful and enjoyable.
Peggy Adams
Love your gatefold Christmas card. The iron gate can be used
in so may ways for all holidays and seasons. Wow, the possibilities
are endless. The talent on this site just blows me away.
Love the elegance all these dies have, such pretty detail and love that you used a gate on a gatefold card!
Love how intricate this card is. Would love to see it in real life!
Margie
Oh Wow! Another incredibly beautiful card! I think this is stunning and I would LOVE to have a card made by you. Thank you for giving us this opportunity.
Wow, another gorgeous creation. Love the gatefold style. The red and white are so striking,.
I think that is a marvelous idea to give one of your creations away as a prize! I don’t know anyone who would not just love to have a real authentic Becca Card!!!!!! I am afraid I would have to put it in a shadow box, never give it away! Hope you do this more often.
You are to me the only card maker on the block! Sue M.
Such a beautiful card.
Becca,
As always I am blown away by your gorgeous card(s), you are simply amazing in your creative muse.
When I grow up, I want to create just like YOU!
God Bless!
Your card inspires and prods me to start getting some Christmas cards produced NOW. I love how you utilize various dies to create one beautiful card. You’re always inspirational and an excellent resource for me. Thank you for all you do.
WOW..This is outstanding. What a gorgeous and creative card.
This card is amazing! I just might have to make it my card to send out this year :)
Beautiful card, would love to win it. Thank you, Becca.
The card is outstanding as are all of your creations! To have an original from you would compete my creative days. Thank you for sharing. I look forward to a video on this card.
Beautiful!
Your card is stunning, as always. Love that this snowflake doesn’t look TOO Christmassy so it doesn’t even have to be a Christmas card.
Oh Becca how can you bear to give this card away. If I was lucky enough to win it would take pride of place in my humble craft room and I would never give it away (pretty selfish eh!). Have you any news of the Nina and all aboard yet? they are still in my daily prayers. God bless you.
Greetings from South Australia
Morning Becca, This card is stunning, I especially love the gilded gate two die-cuts, that is genius, the red and white theme is stunning. I love it !!
Lots of love from Patricia xx
You really do think outside the box, Becca. I would never have thought of using the gates sideways on, but now that you’ve put the idea into my head ….
Beautiful card!!! Your cards are alway so beautiful and so creative. Thank you for all the wonderful ideas!
I’ve gotten so many good ideas to try myself from your cards. Thank you for being so inspiring!
What wonderful ideas you inspire with your projects! Thank you for sharing. I must admit though I will spend quite a bit of time with the card if I win just observing before blessing someone with this wonder!
Hi Becca
This card is beautiful, and a very clever spin with the gilded gate. All of your cards are so beautifully finished. I have to purchase the gate die now ( lucky me ). :-)
Kind regards
Tina X
Another outstanding creation and I’m glad to be seeing Christmas ideas. It takes me a long time to come up with my yearly card and your creations get my mind whirling! Thank you!
Would love to have this beautiful card for continued inspiration. Can’t wait to see what you with the other upcoming dies.
This card is so beautiful. Can’t wait to see what else you’re making! Thanks Becca.
HI Becca
If I won this beautiful card It Would have to stay with me and be brought out every year love your blog you are so tallented
hugz Ruth
Beautiful! Just started following you.
Gorgeous!!!
I love everything about Christmas even in July, this card is stunning and I would love to win one of your spectacular creations Becca. You are an inspiration to all us crafters. xx
Oh, Becca!! What a beautiful card you’ve created! The guided gate die and the snow flakes together make such a gorgeous card! This card would be a treasure to receive.
OMG just fabulous!! you are blessed with such talent & thank you for sharing.
Fita
This is such a beauty Becca.. I love the gate fold card and your amazing thought that went into making it. You are such a sweet and caring lady.. Keep up the great work and I will be waiting for tomorrow’s card and for the tutorial. Thank you for sharing. Hugs, Jean
Hi Becca this card is stunning,a fantastic work of art,thank you for the inspiration.
Smiles
Ita in Ireland
What a stunning card. You truly did find the perfect method to showcase the Snowflakes dies.
Christmas is my most FAVORITE HOLIDAY OF ALL!
yOU MADE THIS CARD soooo Classy and I love the gate
which opens to a perfect sentiment!
God Bless you gracious artist!
PICK ME!
joyce anderson
Becca you have a natural talent for card making!! Who else would think to put a guilded gate and snow flake together to get such a beautiful card anyone would love to receive. Sure hope it can be me!
This is incredible I love the detail
So beautiful how clever I already want this die
Thanks for sharing your talents blessings
Beautiful card!
Who has won this beautiful card?
Testing for Becca
Wow! So pretty. Just love all your cards.
This card is absolutely gorgeous. Never would have thought to use the Gilded Gate die in this way but it is so effective!
Also love the colour combo.