3D Christmas Box Cards

Hello friends.  Every month SSS releases a new kit (which I rarely ever buy) where they give you the option to buy the whole kit or just the parts you want.  This month part of the kit was the sweetest little scenes that are pre-printed and then you punch out the different layers and add them with foam tape to create a 3 dimensional scene.  Soooooo cute and easy!  When you have no mojo, these are just the ticket!  I have 4 cards to share with you using these Craft Consortium's Christmas Market 3D Decoupage Collection.  The first two I made into shadow box cards.  Take a look...

You can make these shadow boxes any size you want...I made mine just a bit bigger than the base layer of the pre-printed scene which is 3 5/8".  I started with a piece of 4 1/4" x 11" and scored along the long edge at 1/2", 4 1/2", 5", 9" & 9 1/2" and then cut off the last 1 1/2".  I used a Gina Marie Designs rounded square die to cut out the opening on the top and then also heat embossed in white my sentiment underneath the die cut opening.  After folding against the score lines, I added a piece of adhesive to the side tab (1/2" piece) and attached it to the other 1/2" tab to create the shadow box. (Hope that makes sense??!)  I had already created my scene by adding the layers with foam tape to give the dimension and then just slid it into the shadow box from the top opening.  It might have been easier to add the dimensional scene before putting the shadow box together, but I didn't think that far ahead.  (An engineer I am not!!)

 Here's a close up where you hopefully can see some of the multi layers better.  I finished by adding a lot of sparkle with my WOS pen to the scene and also added some Impression Obsession die cut mini snowflakes to the outside of the shadow box frame.

 Here's another one done with a different scene (you get 2 of each of the 5 scenes for a total of 10 in the pkg.) and Pool Party cs (the first one was done with Real Red cs).

Here they both are together.  They do fold somewhat flat, so I think they are mailable, but I think I'll just hand deliver these to make sure they don't get destroyed in the mail.  These really came together quite quickly and I'm pretty tickled at how cute they turned out!

These next two are just regular A2 cards with a bit of dsp from MFT's Candyland 6 x 6 pad that I've had for years and years and years!!  I also ran a panel of kraft cs with a SU! Snowflake embossing folder and then ran over the top with my brayer and white pigment ink for the upper layer of this card before adding the layered scene.  The snowflake is another from the Impression Obsession die set and the white heat embossed sentiment is from one of Gina K's recent incentive sets.  I also added a piece of red & white bakers twine at the top and finished with a red pearl in the center of the snowflake.

   This last card isn't much different than the last one, just different colored dsp and ribbon, and a different scene.  

The Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge has a mood board featuring different Christmas animals, and I thought even though my deer, birdies, and Dalmation pup are more whimsical, they still kinda fit for this challenge.  This challenge is open till Thursday, Oct. 31st @ 8:00PM and you can find all the details right HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!