Frosty Christmas

Today’s card inspiration comes from this card from Linda Dalke. I love the look of silver and navy on Christmas cards so I knew I had to dedicate at least one design to the color combination. I kept this card fairly simple in design allowing the shine to really come through. My favorite part is the silver glimmer paper peeking out from under the sentiment.

• Stamps:

• Ink: Night of Navy

• Cardstock: Merry Music DSP (retired); Night of Navy; Silver Glimmer Paper; Whisper White

• Accessories: Metallic Snowflakes

• Tools: Layering Circles Dies; Stitched Shapes Dies

Musical Reindeer

How pretty is this card? I love the combo of pink and lime green. I think I should make a few more of these cards to send out...

• Stamps: Merry Patterns; Merry Mistletoe
• Inks: Smoky Slate; Lemon Lime Twist; Berry Burst
• Cardstock: Merry Music DSP; Berry Burst; Lemon Lime Twist; Whisper White
• Accessories: Black Rhinestones
• Tools: 

Silver, Black, and Red

For this card, I CASEd this great card from Linda Dalke. I wouldn't have thought about combining silver, black, and red, but I love the effect! It's hard to see in my picture, but the sentiment is wonderfully shiny as it's been heat embossed in silver. I'm in love with the beautiful metallic washi tape including in the Year of Cheer Washi Tape pack. You receive a thin strip of silver, gold, and copper, plus two great pattern rolls. This pack of washi tape will not last through the Christmas season, I've been using them on everything!

• Stamps: Snowflake Snetiments
• Inks: 
• Cardstock: Merry Music DSP; Real Red; Black
• Accessories: Silver Foil Snowflake; Year of Cheer Washi Tape
• Tools: Silver Embossing Powder

#28 Old Olive Reindeer

Today's sketch comes from May 2015:

Oh my goodness I love love love this card! Something about the muted color palette and the fun layers really gets me. In fact, I loved it so much, that we did this card for November's stamp club.

• Stamps: Merry Patterns
• Inks: Old Olive; Basic Black
• Cardstock: Merry Music DSP; Old Olive; Whisper White
• Accessories: Black Rhinestones; Gold Foil Snowflakes
• Tools: 

#5 Watercolor Greeting

Today's sketch comes from December 2015:

Here's what I did originally and I still really love this card!

For this year's car, I went back to the horizontal orientation of the sketch. I saw someone else color the Merry Music DSP and loved the idea! I inked up my brayer in Emerald Envy and rolled it across my paper a few times. To add some more interest, I stamped on a few snowflakes in Emerald Envy. For my main greeting, I colored my circle with my aqua painter and Real Red reinker. After it dried, I stamped my main greeting. I love the tone on tone look of both the background and the sentiment. Finally I added a silver snowflake and some silver enamel shapes.

• Stamps: Snowflake Sentiments
• Inks: Real Red; Emerald Envy
• Cardstock: Merry Music DSP; Emerald Envy; watercolor paper
• Accessories: Silver Foil Snowflakes; Metallic Enamel Shapes
• Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits

#1 Merry Reindeer

Today's sketch comes from June 2016.

And here was my original submission for the sketch:

On to my reimagined Christmas card... I flipped the card onto it's side after realizing the pieces I wanted to include wouldn't quite fit vertically. Once I realigned my thinking, I got to stamping and cutting! I love my new little reindeer stamp! He's just so cute! For this card, I stamped him in Black, layered some trees in Old Olive, and (hard to see in the picture) added some sparkle with Wink of Stella. 

• Stamps: Merry Mistletoe
• Inks: Basic Black; Cherry Cobbler; Old Olive
• Cardstock: Be Merry DSP; Merry Music DSP; Old Olive; Whisper White
• Accessories: 
• Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits; Clear Wink of Stella

Sunday Haul #11

My Holiday Catalog preorder arrived! So many fun goodies inside this catalog. I restrained myself and ordered just a few items to start. I also ordered all the DSP for the Paper Share I offer at the launch of every new catalog. I ended up with:

• Christmas Around the World DSP
• Merry Music DSP
• Merry Little Christmas DSP
• Year of Cheer DSP
• Painted Autumn DSP
• Spooky Night DSP
• Champagne Foil Sheets
• Merry Cafe Stamp
• Spooky Cat Stamp
• Cat Punch
• Vintage Crochet Trim
• Black Rhinestones
• Foil Snowflakes