Patterned Paper Party IG Hop - December 25

Hello friends and happy Christmas week; I can't believe we are only 3 days away from the big day now!  I'm back today to share my card for this month's Patterned Paper Party Instagram Hop (a little bit late oops). Do you love patterned paper? Do you have a huge stash that needs using? Well so do we and it's time to get it used! We will be hopping on the 20th of each month to share our ideas. We will definitely be creating cards, but maybe sometimes tags, ATCs, gift bags/boxes, mini albums and scrapbook pages too. We want our patterned paper to be used.

The theme is always 'anything goes' but each month we will have an optional twist that can be used if you like; this month the twist is 'Christmas', which I'm sure is going to be super popular, so grab your patterned papers and have fun.  I completely forgot to make my card this month and only remembered at 12.30am on Sunday morning when I should have posted it at 7pm Saturday night!  I blame it on Christmas and trying to do everything in such a short space of time.  Anyway I had to make a super quick card but I think it turned out festive and fun.  I hope you like it. 

Here is my card:

A closer look at the paper:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by die cutting the stitched rectangle from white card and die cutting the tree from the centre of that panel.  The inside pieces fall out but of course you can put them back in, cut them from coloured card or even ink blend them (which I did here last year).  As the focus is on using patterned paper I placed a piece of green striped paper behind the tree, some gold mirror card for the star and some brown card for the trunk.  I then matted this panel on a gold mirror layer with double sided tape.  To bring in a bit more sparkle I cut a panel of red glitter card 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" to cover the whole of the front of my card base and added it with double sided tape.  I added some scrap white card behind the tree panel for extra stability and dimension and adhered this to the glitter panel with double sided tape.  I stamped the sentiment in red ink and cut it out with a sentiment strips die.  I added it below the tree with foam squares.  Because I thought the card was fairly basic I went mad and added gold pearls to each of the spaces on the garland of the tree using liquid glue.  I know it's a bit much but I think it looks gorgeous.  For the inside I cut a white panel and added a piece of the green patterned paper to the bottom along with a thin strip of the red glitter card with liquid glue.  I matted that onto a layer of gold mirror card with double sided tape.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre with the same red ink.  I adhered the panel to the card base with double sided tape.  Not too bad for a 1am creation and definitely festive.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create challenge - ATG optional twist sparkle & shine

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - Christmas

Color Dare challenge - #683 bold & bright

Creative Crafting Uncles challenge - Christmas/Happy New Year

Girlz and the Art of Letters challenge - P is for patterned paper/pearls

Inspiration Station challenge - inspiration photo

Little Red Wagon challenge - Christmas cards

Papercraft Challenges - festive sparkle 

Peace on Earth challenge - ATG Christmas challenge optional mood board

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - sparkle & shine

We hope you will be inspired by our Patterned Paper Party IG Hop and will pop over and check out all the gorgeous creations along the way. If you would like to join us please visit my Instagram page or use the hashtag #patternedpaperpartyhopdecember2025 and we will find you.

Thanks for stopping by and take care.

Lots of love

card supplies:

*Gina K Designs - Christmas tree cover plate

Gina K Designs - graphic tree stamp (for sentiments)

Gina K Designs - sentiment strips dies

Gina K Designs - red velvet ink pad

Limetree Crafts - 280gsm silky smooth white card

Echo Park - dots & stripes metropolitan 6x6 paper pad

Tonic Studios - craft perfect ruby romance 6x6 card pack

gold mirror card from stash

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Thank you x