CASE me a Christmas Card with Michelle Lupton

You can't imagine how happy I was to be invited by Michelle Lupton to join her for her 2024 CASE me a Christmas Card event!  Here's how it works:

I had to choose a card from her Instagram gallery to CASE - BUT here is the catch: it is my job to turn one of Michelle's all-occasion/birthday/sympathy cards into a CHRISTMAS card!  Now that all of my Christmas cards are done, it sounded like just the fun I was looking for as I prepare to snuggle in for the Winter! lol

It was quite a dilemma to choose just ONE of Michelle's cards, but here is where my heart landed - linked above to her IG account for your viewing pleasure... pack a lunch as there is SO much to love there - or you can check out her CASE of MY card right HERE on her blog!

Isn't that little gift-giver a sweetheart? 

Now to make it my own while using these design elements:

• Make it a 'dutch door' card meaning only the bottom of the front panel is intact
• Use an adorable stamp/character as the star of the card - Copic colored
• Have a lettered panel on the inside panel
• add a simple sentiment

Here is how I made the 'dutch door' on my card base by 'partial die-cutting' the front panel using a curvy slope die instead of a straight landscape cut ...

The excess was easily cut using my guillotine, and a scissor to finish the cut.

However!  That pesky tape left a mark!

Easy enough to 'partial emboss' it away with my favorite SU subtle texture!

This ADORABLE PB Sweet Sledder made her way into my stash recently -

it was the obvious pick for my card!

We all know how those Copics 'seep through' to the back of

our paper - I simply traced the portion that would be exposed

and added it to the back - easy enough!

I tweaked my 'Letter to Santa c. 1957' to print my lettered panel:

In case you're wondering - Shelly DID get that wished for, prayed for doll -

and I'm quite sure those naughty siblings were spoiled, too!

All the pieces came together, topped by something for that sweet face to look at and a hand-cut sentiment from a very old Clearly Besotted set. 

That lovely tree is one from Sizzix for Tim Holtz topped

with a glittery star from EH.

I won't lie - I'm very happy with my CASE

of Michelle's card!  Hope she likes it, too!

Thanks so much, Michelle, for inviting me to play!  I can't wait to see which

card of mine that you were inspired to CASE!

=] Michele one L