Hello, everyone! I hope you’re having a great week so far! It’s TaeEun here today, sharing a fun holiday card. My card features the Holiday Bicycle and Radiating Snowflake suites from the Magical Holiday Release. I used an untraditional color scheme for a fresh and young look. 

I started by stamping the Holiday Bicycle image in Detail Black. I then stamped it again with embossing ink to heat emboss it using clear embossing powder. I love the shine and dimensional touch that clear embossing adds. 

To stencil the bicycle, I chose first four basic colors: coral pink, purple, brown, and blue, as I wanted to use the Overlapping Triangles stencil for my background. Keeping those colors in mind, I began stenciling.
I didn’t stencil the elements on the stencil in one color; instead I selected different colors for each element on the stencil. Below is a list of the ink colors I used:

• Bicycle: body - Lavender, Hydrangea; seat - Warm Buff; wheel - Opulence
• Scarf: Coral Reef, Passion Fruit
• Presents: Coral Reef, Passion Fruit, Sky Blue, Lavender
• Cake: Warm Buff, Coral Reef
• Holly and Mistletoe: Spruce Tips, Lush Forest, Candy Apple

After the stenciling was done, I cut the images using the coordinating one-piece-die and set them aside. 

To create the background, I stenciled the Overlapping Triangles in Sky Blue, Warm Buff, Soft Lilac and Cherry Blossom. Next, I hot foiled the Radiating Snowflake in Icicle, which is transparent with subtle shiny particles. I hot foiled two snowflakes, offset on the upper left and lower right corners. 

To add some dimension to the background, I cut the panel using two dies from the Blanket Stitched Rectangles die set. I adhered the frame part directly onto a white cardbase and foam mounted the central rectangle.

Next, I added the bicycle. To make it sturdy, I cut four more bicycles and layered them together.  The small elements were added to the card using foam tape. 

The sentiment is from the Magical Holiday stamp set. I heat embossed it in white on a piece of dark purple cardstock, cut it into a fishtail banner, curved it a bit, and added it to the bicycle. I wanted the sentiment banner to look as if it were blown by the wind :)!

To finish off, I adhered a few Blush and Amethyst Glitter Drops to the presents and to the sentiment banner. 

That’s it from me for today! I hope I was able to inspire you with my card! 

Thank you so much!

TaeEun