This layout is one of my favorites for small images. It puts the focus on that tiny image and all of a sudden it's the focus of the card!
The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Real Red card stock. It opens on the right and the fold is on the left. I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Basic White card stock and taped it to the inside of the card.
On the front the layers are as follows. The Basic White piece is cut at 4-1/2" x 4-5/8". The Garden Green piece is cut at 3" x 4-1/8" and the Designer Series Paper (DSP) was cut at 2-7/8" x 4".
I took the DSP and used a small amount of tape in the area were the opening is going to be and attached it to the Garden Green card stock. Using my 1-1/4" punch and I put the piece all the way inside the punch. I looked on each side to see that it was spaced equally. Then I took the piece of DSP and put a piece of copier paper under it (for a little thickness or it will rip the DSP)and using my 1-3/8" punch to make the opening in the DSP larger. I save the circles but I recycle the little ring of DSP. I taped the two pieces together, lining them up as much as I could. Dimensionals were added to the back and the piece was set aside. I forgot to mention that the DSP is from the "Christmas Tags & More" 6" x 6" stack.
I took another piece from that same package of DSP (2" x 2") and placed it over the hole (after removing the backing on the Dimensionals. Once the backing was removed on all of the Dimensionals I added some tape to the 2" x 2" piece so it would stick in the center of the whole piece too. I had centered this on the Basic White piece.
Tape was added to the back of the Basic White piece and it was then set in place on the card base.
The little gingerbread man is from the "Homemade Treats" bundle. I stamped it using Pecan Pie ink and then I cut it out using the matching die. Two small Dimensionals were added to the back and it was set i place inside the circle.
The words are from the "Greetings For You" ephemera pack. They are stickers. I didn't remove the backing, I just added Dimensionals to the back of it and set it in place on the front of the card.
I had some retired "Real Red & White Peppermints". I think these should be a basic holiday staple during the holiday sales. That and the snowflake ones they had last year. I used three of them on my card and the card was done.
This was a fun card to make and a perfect layout for those smaller images.
Thank you SO very much for taking your time to stop in and see today's Christmas card,
Wanda
