God's Peace

Day #20! How are you enjoying my Christmas Card inspiration so far?

My friend Kristine leant me a couple of spiritual stamp sets from the Holiday catalogue including God’s Peace which you can find on page 28. I LOVE how this card turned out! I stamped the phrase from Luke 2:10-11 in Crumb Cake in the background and then flicked my Crumb Cake marker. The candle image was coloured with blends and cut out with a stitched circle framelit. The Granny Apple Green sprig was added using the Christmas Layers Dies (pg 16) with a bit of Gold Metallic Thread (I still can’t believe it is retired) and the phrase Peace & Happiness is from the Itty Bitty Christmas stamp set and cut out with the Stitched Rectangular framelits. I love it so much that I am going to host a Spiritual Christmas card class on Wednesday, Dec 4th!

Let is Snow--Metallics!

Back in September I co-hosted an event called Creative Day Getaway. I offer this event 3 times a year with two other demonstrators and each time we host this event I have to create a 15 minute demo. At our last event I took on the challenge of getting creative with the Delicate Metallic Inks. Sadly they are not being carried forward with Stampin’ Up!. However, I did really enjoying playing with them. I used water-colour paper, a spritzer, aqua painter and the Silver Delicate Ink Refill to create this background. Because this refill is so thick, I needed to put a good layer of water down on the paper and then I added 2-3 drops of re-inker and used the aqua painted to move it around. I used my heat tool to set it and I was really happy with how this metallic wash turned out. I stamped ‘Let it Snow’ in the metallic ink to finish off the background.

The snowflakes are cut with the Frosted Frames dies!

Occasions Catty--Sneak Peek Project!

Now that On Stage is finally over I can reveal that I was asked to present the Parisian Blossoms suite! It was so amazing to work with!I created over a dozen cards and 5 scrapbook pages with it. Here is one of my favourite creations…I thought I would share it even though its not a Christmas card. It could be though…just change up the color scheme! Think outside the box!

You will have to check back to see all the details on December 1st. My holiday gift to you will be showcasing all of my creations in daily posts!

To Be Jolly!

Day #16! Enjoy this card today as I know I am enjoying my time at On Stage in Edmonton! The card was created using the Holly Jolly Christmas bundle (pg 25) of the Holiday Catalogue. It is a part of the Night Before Christmas suite. I used the DSP color palette to dictate the colors of my card. I think Pretty Peacock is an usual color when we think of ‘Christmas’. I added in the candy cane and gingham designs from the Night Before Christmas DSP. I love the Cherry Cobbler Diagonal Stripe ribbon and I was struggling to get the To Be Jolly to stand out. So I cut it out in Pretty Peacock and Whisper White and layered them to help the phrase pop so it didn’t get lost amongst the ribbon. A few trees stamped in Smoky Slate and some rhinestones from the Noble Peacock set competes the card!

Santa's Back...

I absolutely love this vintage Santa! He is reminiscent of the Santa imagery of my childhood. Warm happy feelings! I loved colouring him with our Stampin’ Blends. The Jolly Season Dies (pg 25) include the Tis The Season phrase which I cut in Granny Apple Green. It was fun to pair a brighter green with the traditional Cherry Cobbler red.

Top Tip: To make the pattern of your embossing folders stand out, use a finger dauber (here I used Smoky Slate ink) on the sections of the folder to enhance the design.