Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Snow Much Fun


Hello everyone! I hope you all had a nice weekend. Mine was good. I actually had a little time to relax on Sunday and just be lazy and watch football. So that was nice. Today's card is for 2 challenges; the color challenge on splitcoast and the KA-POW creative challenge on Carrie Gaskin's blog. The colors for the challenge on splitcoast was Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso and Pool Party. I LOVE these colors together. My first thought was to do a Christmas card with them. Then the KA-POW challenge was a sketch challenge.

I thought this sketch was kind of cool. Although I did mess up a little and not add something where the 3 buttons are. I should have moved my pearls to the bottom. Oh well, I still think the card is cute. The Pool Party background was embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder. On the Cherry Cobbler piece I stamped the small doily from Delicate Dolies. The snowman was stamped on Crumb Cake cardstock and colored in with White craft ink. I cut him out and adhered him to the one of the frames from the Designer Frames embossing folder. I added some Cherry Cobbler seam binding with a little tag and a little jingle bell (they are so cute!) And lastly, I added some of the new mica flakes around the snowman. These are pretty cool too. However, when I got them I was shocked at how big the container was that they were in. I will have these flakes for a long time! What a great deal! I hope you enjoyed today's christmas card. I am so glad that I have such a head start on my cards for the year. One less thing to stress about once December comes. I hope these challenges get you inspired to start on your holiday cards as well! Have a great day!

Stamps: Snow Much Fun, Delicate Doilies
Paper: Pool Party, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Black, Pool Party, Early Espresso
Accessories: Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, Designer Frames embossing folder, Cherry Cobbler seam binding, pearls, mini jingle bells, mica flakes

8 comments:

  1. So adorable! I really like the hint of doilies!

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  2. ADORABLE! Love how you used the mica flakes in this and what great colours too! Thanks for playing at KKC this week.

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  3. Very, very cute. Love the mica flakes- great idea for the snow. Blessings, Diane

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  4. Your card is so dear! I love these colours together and I LOVE this stamp set! And at the risk of saying "love" again... I LOVE the new mica flakes!
    Great job!

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  5. love your colour choices but esp the extra touches of the doily set in the back. they look like snowflakes on your card. you did a beautiful job. thx for playing along at the KKC,
    Carole

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  6. Wonderful card! LOVE the color combo! I must try it!

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  7. i like how the polka dots embossed on the pool party look like little snow balls--cute!

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  8. Beautiful. I love your use of the mica flakes. And I love how you made the image look framed. Thanks for sharing!
    Marnie

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