Merry, pink on pink

I didn’t make that many new cards this year and I made even fewer than usual with specific people in mind. This is one of those cards. And, just in case you can’t guess, this is for someone who really loves pink.

When I made the landscape double merry cutout with my Cricut Maker, I also made this portrait version with four merries. I cut it out of plain white card to offset some of the pink glitter card that I was planning to use — it’s good to have a little contrast.

I had successfully used some of the darker pink glitter card as a card base last year. This year, I decided to pair it with the lighter pink glitter card. I cut a panel of the darker card, slightly smaller than my card base. Then I trimmed the white card to leave a small border around it.

I cut the sentiment strip to size, adding a V-shape at the end, and positioned it on the card. The sentiment was a spare that I made last year; this one is in pale gold rather than the silver that I used last time.

Then I just had to die-cut a pile of lighter pink snowflakes using the Creative Expressions snowflake panel die — which also has some useful stars and dots in its design — and stick them all over the card.