Step Card with Back to Basics and Beyond Challenge

Hello, Blogging Friends and a warm welcome to my newest followers.



Today is my first post as a design team member for

Back to Basics and Beyond Challenges.

It's a challenge blog dedicated to... you guessed it... getting back to the basics.

For the next two weeks, join us by uploading an "Anything-Goes" challenge as long as a step card - center step or side step - is shown.

Mine is a vintage A7 size Center Step Christmas Card.

TIP: To make an enlarged step card, make the height 5 to 5.5 inches, and the width to whatever you like: 6 - 8.5 inches. You can also adjust the side panels (steps), but I recommend one inch, with the side panels at least one inch as well.

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Some products used on my card:

Often, I don't have a die that perfectly fits the layers in my card. That's when I pull out my punches and custom fit the borders. There are 3 pieces of punched border, like this on the back:

On the front, it looks like this:

The back of a step card is a great place to add a note or other sentiment. One of my favorite sentiments for the year from the Happy Holidays rubber stamp set, it was stamped in Acorn Brown Hybrid Ink to match the cardstock. Not just another pretty set of letters, the sentiment is just as lovely for the inside of a card, as well as a card front:
   

The snowflake was cut out 4 times in white cardstock. Two of the flakes were coated with Fantasy Gold Ultrafine Glitter. When dry, the white layers were adhered to the glittery layers, slightly offset. Vintage colors were used on the Christmas Skate Digital Stamp:

Side View:

Looking forward to seeing your step creations!

Products Used:

• Sparkle N Sprinkle Christmas Skate Digital Stamp 789 (available in rubber)
• Sparkle N Sprinkle Happy Holidays Rubber Stamp 897 (available digitally)
• Acorn Brown Hybrid Ink 
• Fantasy Gold Ultrafine Glitter G1001
• Tonic Winter Snowflake Die 1016E (it's a large, fully detailed die)
• Adhesives: Deluxe Adhesive with fine tip, 1/4" Tear-ific Double Sided Tape
• Spellbinders: Floral Ovals die set
• Tattered Lace: Center Step Card die set
• White, Brown, Gold cardstock
• Computer-generated words along bottom of card
• Other Inks: Walnut Stain Oxide, Antique Linen Distress, Black Soot Oxide

On a Personal Note:

We stepped outside early one morning to water the plants in the front, when several deer in the front pasture leapt away to a neighboring pasture. In front of the gate was a brown lump, and we worried it was an injured deer. Upon closer scrutiny, we noticed it was a newborn fawn, who did what came natural - be still in a down position until his mother returns. So we marched back up the hill and waited. Just a few minutes later, the mom came back and they left together.

Challenges I'd like to play in please:

1. Crafter's Castle Challenges #7 AG + option Christmas 8/4
2. Twelve Months of Christmas #43 Anything Christmas Goes 8/4
3. The Merry Christmas Challenge #26 Anything Christmas Goes
4. Christmas at Sweet Stampin' #? Anything Goes Christmas 8/11
5. Pile It On Challenges #144 Vintage 8/5 (sep post)
6. The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #32 Anything Christmas 8/1
7. Scrapy Land Challenges #93 AG dies SL sells (Tattered lace, Tonic, SB)
8. Sweet Stampers #22 Christmas In July 8/10

Thanks for dropping by!
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