Gina K’s January Monthly Mix Challenge

Gina K’s January Monthly Mix Challenge is to “Put your red dress on” and use red as the dominant color and make a celebratory card. I made three birthday cards/tags each with a different style. Cards supplies are listed in the photo caption. Happy crafting!

The red card front was stamped with Gina K’s Background Diagonal Stripe stamp. The edges of the red panel were sponged with distress ink to fade out the diagonal pattern. I die cut the square panel from white cardstock using Spellbinders’ Large Square die set. This is my first attempt at wreath building and I used leaf images from Gina K’s Sketched Wreath Builder and Holiday Tapestry stamp sets. I heat embossed the birthday sentiment from Gina K’s Sketched Wreath Builder stamp set. The last bit after assembling the card was to add some gems to the wreath.

I used snowflake stamps from Gina K’s Joy of the Season and Snowflake Cascade stamp sets to heat emboss the images around the border of the card front. I wet washed the prepared card front and watercolored the front with distress ink. It’s a bit hard to see in the photo but there is some abandoned coral and picked raspberry along the edges of the card. I cut a tag out of vellum using the medium tag die from Gina K’s Tag Trio die set. I stamped the birthday sentiment from Gina K’s Winter Hugs stamp set and heat embossed it. I assembled the card and added a twine bow to the tag.

The last one is a wine bottle tag using the largest die from Gina K’s Tag Trio die set. I lined up and glued down strips of various reddish colored cardstock on a scrap piece of cardstock and then die cut the tag. I also die cut 2 snowflakes using Gina K’s Snowflake Trio die set. I heat embossed the snowflakes with sparkle embossing powder. I heat embossed the gift for you sentiment from Gina K’s Holiday Tapestry stamp set on the prepared tag. Then I glued the snowflakes down on the prepared tag and trimmed off the excess. I stamped the back with the birthday sentiment from Winter Hugs. The last thing was to add the twine to make a loop to put over a wine bottle and add a bow at the top of the tag.