Another pastel Christmas card!
Close up of the shine:
Stamps: Snowflake Sentiments; Lot of Cheer
Ink: Seaside Spray; Night of Navy; Sweet Sugarplum; Blushing Bride; Mint Macaron; Pool Party
Cardstock: Silver Foil; Night of Navy; Whisper White
Accessories:
Tools: Falling Embossing Folder; Stitched Shapes Die; Circle Die
Every Christmas, I end up making at least one set of cards with more winter pastel colors. I knew that I wanted to do a sponged card and this color scheme was perfect for the technique! After making my sponged strip, I added some great silver embossed snowflakes slowly falling. All the card needed to finish was a simple sentiment and a few pretty rhinestones.
Close up of the shine:
Stamps: Snowflake Sentiments
Ink: Seaside Spray; Night of Navy; Sweet Sugarplum; Blushing Bride
Cardstock: Seaside Spray; Night of Navy; Whisper White
Accessories: Noble Peacock Rhinestones
Tools: Silver Embossing Powder; Sponge Daubers
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a Christmas card. Tomorrow is the big day, but before we get there, I had one more card to share with you. I love all the pretty patterned paper Stampin’ Up! comes out with every year. I decided to show off that paper with a simple card for the season.
Stamps: Snowflake Sentiments
Inks: Cherry Cobbler
Cardstock: Dashing Along DSP; Cherry Cobbler; Garden Green; Whisper White
Accessories: Rhinestones; White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon
Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits; Ovals Framelits
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card full of shimmer and shine. I love a bit of sparkle on my cards, but wanted it to be subtle. And so I layered some great DSP pieces on top of a larger piece of Merry Merlot Glimmer Paper. The sparkle is sneaky! To bring up my sentiment, I also wrapped some copper thread around underneath. Love that shine!
Stamps: Snowflake Sentiments
Inks: Merry Merlot
Cardstock: Joyous Noel DSP; Merry Merlot Glimmer Paper; Tranquil Tide; Whisper White
Accessories: Copper thread
Tools: Oval Framelits
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the starburst technique. I love making starburst cards even if they take a bit of planning and construction. I was drawn to the beautiful shine in the Joyous Noel DSP. To amp up the sparkle, I added some of the Copper Glimmer paper from the accompanying Joyous Noel Glimmer Paper pack. I added a coordinating strip of DSP and a simple sentiment to complete my card.
Stamps: Snowflake Sentiments
Inks: Merry Merlot; Tranquil Tide
Cardstock: Joyous Noel DSP; Joyous Noel Glimmer Paper; Very Vanilla; Kraft
Accessories:
Tools:
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the sketch below.
I always love playing along with sketch challenges. They give me a template while allowing for lots of fun paper, stamp, and embellishment choices. For this card, I really wanted to make a fun Christmas card. I paired the new Christmas DSP with a carried-over stamp set. Throw in some fun Stitched Shapes Die and fun Gold Faceted Gems and we get a complete card.
I went simple with today's card focusing on stamping instead of techniques or layering. I started with my sentiment and then added the falling snowflakes around it. I love the layered stamping. To finish off the card, I added a strip of ribbon and a layer of DSP.
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!
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.
I took advantage of Stampin' Up!'s World Cardmaking Day sale. I snapped up a few stamp sets for 15% off and took advantage of the Fast Fuse deal (buy 1 get 2 free!).
