Christmas in July- Wishing You Peace & Joy

Hi Friends!  I had a great time designing a few cards this weekend and decided to share another Christmas card with you today (I way am behind on my personal commitment of trying to create at least 5-6 per month).

My husband and I love to watch birds and the tufted titmouse is one of our favorites that frequently comes to our feeders, so I pulled out Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps, Peace of God Clear Stamp Set  along with Season of Love Clear Stamp Set for this Clean and Simple (CAS) Mixed  Media card.

I incorporated the Freshly Made Sketches FMS247 Sketch and the Splitcoaststampers CAS387 “Christmas In July” Challenge and Alba's  DTGD16albitas Challenge for the design.  

To create this card:

Ink the titmouse image from Peace of God and the sentiment from Season of Love with black archival ink and stamp onto white cardstock.

Use a water brush with distress inks to color the tufted titmouse image and layer both the bird image and sentiment onto gray cardstock.

Add the white highlights with a Sharpie® White Extra Fine Paint Pen.

Emboss a piece of white cardstock with a snowflake embossing folder, apply frost  white  shimmer paint over the panel, trim and mount onto gray cardstock, trim and mount onto the bright pink card base.

Add the layered titmouse image and the sentiment to the card front using dimensional foam to finish off the card (looping the silver cord behind the sentiment before mounting).

Thanks again for visiting- I hope you have a wonderful week, my friends!

Season of Love

Hello Friends!  

I wanted to share a few cards that are being featured on the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps blog today- both cards were created using one of my favorite Sweet 'n  Sassy Stamps (SNSS) Christmas sets, Season of Love.

For the first card, I chose a Clean and Simple (CAS) design using the the Hand Stamped Sentiments HSSCC226 Color Challenge along with the Splitcoaststampers' SC569 Sketch.

A very easy card with a bit of Gold Embossing and Gold Cord Trim (I have more detailed instructions on the SNSS Blog Post here).

Quick and easy- perfect for this time of year (FYI- most of my time was spent trying to get the Gold Trim to stay attached to the back of the card :-))

The second card uses the same colors from the Hand Stamped Sentiments HSSCC226 Color Challenge along with the Mojo Monday Mojo 427 Sketch Challenge.

Again, heat embossing with a bit of Gold Vellum and a bit more layering was used for this card.

Stamp Sets:  Season of Love (SNSS)

Ink: Versamark™

Paper: Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Brushed Gold, Woodland Vellum Stack

Accessories: Big Shot™, Finial Press Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder, Stitched Rectangle and Square STAX Dies (My Favorite Things™), Embossing Buddy®, Stampin' Emboss®  Gold Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, 1 1 /4" Circle Punch, Wooden Circle Embellishment, Pearls, MISTI® Tool

So which one do you prefer?  I enjoy creating more intricately layered cards,  but this time of year, CAS cards are some of my favorites as well!  

Wow, only thirteen more days until Christmas- hugs and I hope you have a blessed weekend, sweet friends!!