Beautiful Peekaboo Card

Hello, friends! I hope you’re all doing well. I am popping in today to share a really fun and beautiful peekaboo card featuring the new Christmas Rocking Chair die set from Spellbinders. This is part of the Country Christmas Collection, which was designed by the talented Annie Williams. I originally intended on making a tunnel card with this rocking chair, but the design idea changed as I got further along in the process. I will, however, include it in my upcoming video where I show a couple tunnel cards that I have been working on recently. Stay tuned!

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I started my card by assembling the Christmas Rocking Chair itself. I used Kraft cardstock and added some ink blending with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. For the seat cushion, I used some velvet cardstock from Simon Says Stamp. It adds a really special detail. I used all kinds of patterned paper on this card. For the pillows and the little hat on the bear, I used the Tim Holtz Christmas Backdrops. This paper came out last year (2024), and it is really hard to find at this point. Good thing I bought 3 packs last year! Have I mentioned before that I hoard patterned paper?

The beautiful scene in the window comes from the Christmas Traditions Paper Pack from La-La Land Crafts.  You know that I am a big fan of their papers! To see a bunch of other cards that I previously made with this particular paper pack,  CLICK HERE. The wood floor is courtesy of one of my most used paper packs – the Craft Consortium Wood Textures. The paper I chose is actually a light grey-ish color, but I “stained” it with my Walnut Stain Distress Ink. Don’t be afraid to change the color of your patterned paper! Dye inks are translucent, so you don’t lose the details of the paper. 

To create the scene and the peekaboo effect, I used the window from the Vista View Window die set. I also used the window sill die from that set to create the baseboard. I just did some partial die cutting to make it longer, and then I trimmed it down so that it wasn’t as tall. I could have just cut a strip of white paper, but this actually has detail to it, which mimics baseboard. 

When you open the card, you see more of the beautiful scene from that patterned paper. I chose to trim down the paper so that I could include a sentiment below it and still leave room for me to write something to the recipient. The paper from this paper pad is 6×6. My card is 5×7. I thought about including the full 6″ height on the inside, but I wanted to have the sentiment in here. You’ll notice that I did not include a sentiment on the front. I didn’t want to distract from that dreamy scene! The beautiful sentiment that I did use comes from this same Country Christmas Collection. It is the Country Christmas Banner & Sentiments. This is a press plate that I foiled with white foil. This set has separate plates for each sentiment which is great for when you want to use it the way I did.

I hope this card brings a smile to your face today. Remember that I will be including footage of this card assembly in an upcoming video, so stay tuned! As always, I appreciate you visiting my blog.

Wishing you all a crafty day,

Allison

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