Hello and welcome to Day 4 of our Holiday Sneak Peek Week! All this week I have been sharing cards showcasing our newest collection which will be available for purchase this Friday!
Today I am sharing ideas using our new Distinctive Door Dies and Distinctive Door Holiday Add-on Dies, and unveiling our newest inside greetings set called Inside Greetings Seasons Stamps. While I primarily plan to use these sentiments on the inside of cards for quick heartfelt messages in my holiday cards, I also used a few of the greetings on the front of my cards this week.
Card No. 1: I went with an everyday design for my first card featuring the Distinctive Door Dies. For the house porch, I used the brick border from our Sprawling Surfaces Stamps and cut thin strips of cardstock to adhere as vertical siding. This die set comes with two transom window options and I layered together one of them to form elongated windows on either side of my front door. To give my columns, pediment, and front door a more realistic feel, I die-cut them from Memory Box Woodgrain cardstock and inked them with Vintage Photo Distress ink. I then added the fun little door knocker, handle, mailslot, porch lights, and planters on either side of my door using the accessories from the new die set. Lastly, I added our new Brilliant Banner 3 Die which I positioned to look like it was being carried by birds from our A Bird's Life Stamps and used the "there's no place like home" sentiment from the same set.
Card No. 2: The new Distinctive Door Dies were designed to be the same width as our Wonderful Window Dies so you can use the arched windows interchangeably with the door like I did here. To get everything to fit within the confines of my mini blue bungalow house, I cut off the top arch from each of these windows and used one above the door. I then decorated my house with the curtains and flower boxes from the Wonderful Windows Dies and added a little metallic kickplate to my door with the alternate door handle from the set. For my house's siding, I simply used a clear grid ruler and traced evenly spaced lines with a Copic Marker in a slightly darker shade than my cardstock.
To create my roofline, I used the triangular pediment die and took my scissors to snip out the bottom portion of the pediment to turn it into a gabled roof. For my roof shingles, I used our Dotted Diamond Landscape Die to emboss a piece of brown cardstock. I then used that same triangular pediment die to cut a notch out of the brown cardstock for the gable, covering the transition between the two surfaces with white trim pieces from the door set. Lastly, I used the holiday wreath from the new Distinctive Door Holiday Add-on Dies to layer under some of the tiny flowers from our Wonderful Window Dies to create a Spring wreath.
Card No. 4: Next up is a series of Christmas cards pairing the Distinctive Door Dies with the Distinctive Door Holiday Add-on Dies. For this card, I used the two garland dies and the garland pieces to go around each of the columns. The holiday add-on dies also include a new lantern option, a holiday wreath, two layered bows, and a new potted Christmas Tree. For my porch, I used the cobblestone border from our Sprawling Surfaces Stamps and fashioned a red door mat which I cut on my paper trimmer, adding texture with some stippling dots using my Copic Markers. 
Card No. 5: For my next Christmas card using the
Distinctive Door Dies and
Distinctive Door Holiday Add-on Dies I used the triangle pediment together with the snow drifts that come with the add-on set. This time instead of using all the garland pieces to decorate my house for the holidays, I used the various strings of lights to decorate my roofline and columns. Since there was already a lot going on with the colorful lights, I left my potted fir trees relatively simple, adding only colorful red pots and little stars to the top of each that come with the die set. To add some roof shingles and texture, I embossed a piece of black cardstock with our
Buffalo Plaid Straight Die. I love how the colorful lights pop against the neutral black and grey colors of my house and the metallic silver accents! These dies are so fun to play with all of the endless options and combinations available!
Card No. 6: I went with a clean and simple design for my last card featuring the Distinctive Door Dies and Distinctive Door Holiday Add-on Dies.
This A6-sized card is larger than a standard A2-sized card, measuring 6.25" wide x 4.5" high. This size better matched my vision for using the garlands from the add-on set to become scallops. Under the scallops, I used a black striped tone-on-tone patterned paper from our Sleek Stripes Paper pack. However, because they are only 6" wide, I had to cut along one of the stripes and piece two strips together to span the extra 1/4" width. It's a bit difficult to tell here, but the bows and ornaments on the trees are hot pink for a bit of a shake-up to traditional Christmas colors. With the extra space I had available, I was able to use one of the wonderful sentiments from our new Inside Greetings Seasons Stamps. 
A Closer Look at Card No. 6: It was difficult to capture the full beauty of this card from straight on. I just adore how this card turned out with the touches of shiny gold metallic cardstock! A little bit goes a long way and I love how classy this simple design feels in person!
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Here's a closer look at our new Distinctive Door Dies, Distinctive Door Holiday Add-on Dies, and Inside Greetings Seasons Stamps used today and available for purchase on Friday, August 23rd.Other Supplies Used:
