I made this card using an A2 card base made from smooth white cardstock. I then took another piece of white cardstock and layed it over the Waffle Flower grip mat which works lovely holding paper and stencils in place while you ink blend. I used each layer of the stencil set to make the lovely candy looking striped background.I then trimmed down the stenciled and ink blended panel to leave a bit of a white border. I then die cut the sentiment MERRY using the CZ Chunky Merry die out of white, green and red cardstock. I adhered the sentiment with 3d foam squares and added to the center of the card. I then die cut the beautiful Joyous Christmas die from white cardstock and trimmed off the word joyous and glued it under the MERRY. I then trimmed out a phrase from the Christmas Greeting reverse sentiment strips and added on top of the MERRY. To finish I added a few flat gold pearls for a little shine.