 Hi everyone and welcome back to another Christmas card video. Today I'm going to combine many different techniques to create a real fun card so I'm starting out with die cutting so I have a little circle there and I'm going to cut out a window out of this panel and I'm not going for a shaker card by the way so I'm going to move on and do some stenciling this is a lovely stencil by my favorite things I'm going to secure it down with my purple tape at the back and you can see that at the back I do have some designs there on my panel I do use all the scrap papers that I have so no one will ever know what's at the back now at the front I'm going to use this i-zinc diamond 24 carats glitter paste it is the gold one and it is just stunning I'm going to apply it with my spatula all over the place I did the review of these pastes last week so you can now watch that video if you haven't I absolutely love these pastes for two reasons first of all they are super shiny and the second one is the product that is inside that pouch never dries on you I have pastes from last year and they are as brand new the disadvantage of this pouch is that you cannot put paste back in so be frugal like I was and usually I have almost no excess paste on my spatula I'm going to leave the stencil and I will let this background dry drying time depends of course on how thick you apply the paste I have a very thin layer here so we dried out in less than 10 minutes as I was preparing the rest of my focal points and now it's time to do some stamping this stamp set is called chassis cater and the little girl is from the pure innocence collection by my favorite things I'm going to stamp here a couple of times to get a good impression and for that I'm using extreme black ink by my favorite things which is alcohol marker friendly so I'm going to go ahead and color everything with my alcohol markers and I'm working with traditional Christmas color combo today so greens and reds I always do my coloring quite simply and quickly as I don't like to spend too much time on coloring images I would say that I rather play with the design and how I put things together on a cart than coloring images for hours so I always do quick coloring mainly using two shades of the same color instead of three and now I'm using the matching dye to cut her out now I didn't even bother to color her legs these are going to be tucked inside the window and you won't be able to see them I'm running the image through my spell binders by cutting machine and I have a lovely focal point for my card and now it's time to put my card together so I used two dice to circle dice one inside the other to create a little ring out of red cardstock and I do have some green cardstock which is going to go at the back of my window and now my girl is going to go inside that window now just to make sure that she is going to be nicely tucked in I just chopped off her legs and now she fits nicely in there before I stick her down I'm going to stick down the ring for that I'm using my novelty looks glue at the back and then I'm going to stick it there this is going to define the window better and it's going to give it a finished look and then I placed the little girl inside the window by using some foam tape at the back that gives her some dimension now I cut out the word joy and I cut it out two times out of white cardstock and another time out of gold cardstock and I'm stacking all the letters one on top of the other this way I end up having quite of a cheaper look for all the letters I have a piece of white string here and I'm using glue dots at the back of her hands and the idea for her for this card came once I saw that she has her hands raised up so I thought that I could create a banner for her and although I do have glue dots at the back of her hands I'm going to secure this string down even more by applying a line of white glue just underneath and if you have any tiny alphabet die set then you can cut out other words such as piece for example or merry and just stick them across the line I'm using tiny little foam squares that I cut out with my scissors at the back of the letters to give them some pop and I'm going to call this card done and here is a close-up look where you can see all the shine on this card everything I used is linked down below just like always I hope that you had fun and that you got inspired don't forget to leave me a comment down below to like and subscribe if you haven't done so already thank you all so much for watching today and I'll see you all next time with another journal