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For my card, I was feeling the watercolor bug, so pulled out the gorgeous Poinsettia Greetings stamp set from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and some watercolors from Shimmerz Paints. The poinsettia image is embossed in white on a large panel of watercolor paper. I then colored the poinsettia with Great Fruit, the greenery with Emerald City and did a wash around the image with Ride the Tide. I love how soft these colors are.

Next I got out a Cut-Align ruler and pen knife to help me cut the panel down to card front size without cutting off the petals or leaves. This large stamped image is larger than a card front and I love the way it just kind of sprawls off the edges.



Once the panel was cut, I added the stamped sentiment, masking off the happy and the s from Happy Holidays and adding cheer below.  Then I used the stamps to mask off my stamped images and splattered some Well Blue Me Down and some Snow Storm splatters around the edges.


A black mat sets it off and helps ground the sentiment a bit.  I embellished with some holeless sequins, a few pearls and a bit of sheer ribbon to finish things off.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Hope this fun little card has inspired you to get going on your Christmas projects! Seems like the year is flying by! For more eye candy and inspiration, head on over to the next stop on the hop... Kim Heggins!

Hope this fun little card has inspired you to get going on your Christmas projects! For more eye candy and inspiration, head on over to the next stop on the hop... Kim Heggins!

Hope this fun little card has inspired you to get going on your Christmas projects! For more eye candy and inspiration, head on over to the next stop on the hop... Kim Heggins!

The purpose of this little hop is to share Christmas inspiration and get a jump start on our 2019 Christmas projects so we're not slammed come December! Hard to believe we're already half way through the year!



As I was pondering what to create this month, I came across a loose sheet of designer paper from the Lost & Found Christmas collection from many moons ago in my Christmas bin and fell in love with the bird and wreath design in the paper. So I decided to start with that as my inspiration and create a vintage style Christmas card (my favorite kind to create).


As I sorted through stamp sets, the O Holy Night set from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps caught my eye, and I just had to use these lyrics as the focal point of my card.  I embossed the stamp onto a die cut tag of designer paper, then sponged with antique linen and ground espresso distress oxides.



I wanted something more for the card, so decided to stamp and color one of the beautiful flowers from the Christmas Botanicals set. I colored with Copic markers and then added some sparkle to the image with Emerald City Inklingz and Christmas Cheer Shimmerz. Love that sparkle! Another coordinating strip of paper down the side, accented with a string of rhinestones finished things off.

Hope this fun little card has inspired you! For more eye candy and inspiration, head on over to the next stop on the hop... Kim Heggins!

The purpose of this little hop is to share Christmas inspiration and get a jump start on our 2019 Christmas projects so we're not slammed come December! Sounds good to me! 👍



I was wanting to play with some of the new ink colors Clearsnap released in their Dyestress line, so I pulled out the new to me O Holy Night set from Sweet 'n Sassy, since it has a silhouette image I thought would be perfect for an emboss resist technique.


I started by embossing the silhouette on Smooth Bristol paper and then embossing with White Satin Pearl embossing powder.  I then die cut a circle similar in shape from a post it note, using the negative of the cut to mask off the surrounding area, then blended Capri ink in the center of the silhouette circle.  Next I used the die cut circle to mask off the area and then blended with Tahiti ink.  I love this color! I purposely didn't go all the way to the edges so I could take a baby wipe and move some of the color around. I love the fun striations this gives. I finished this panel off with some water spritzes, blotted with a paper towel, then embossed the sentiment.  In hindsight, I should have added the sentiment first or used white embossing powder, since the white satin pearl picked up a bit of the Tahiti ink behind it and isn't as easy to read as I would like.



I tied a seam binding bow around this panel, adding a teeny rose to the bow center and painting with Angel Wings Shimmerz for a bit of sparkle.  I added some foam to the back of this panel and finished off with an A2 card base.

Hope this fun little card has inspired you! For more eye candy and inspiration, head on over to the next stop on the hop... Kim Heggins!

I love the postage stamp dies in the Four Seasons set and thought the snowflake duo would make an elegant Christmas card. I started by cutting it from shiny gold paper three times. Then I cut just the outer postage stamp die three times for the backing. Next I sponged the backing rectangles with antique linen and vintage photo distress ink and then layered the gold and cream pieces together with liquid adhesive. For a little accent, I added a couple of flatback pearls to the center of each snowflake and then set these aside to dry.


For the background, I pulled out the beautiful Vintage Holiday set and embossed the Dec. 25 in the corner in gold. I selected a scrap of some old BasicGrey paper for the horizontal piece, then positioned the Season's Greetings oval where it would show below this panel and embossed it in gold as well.  Then I randomly stamped the poinsettia image all over the panel in sand ink, and  sponged the edges with distress inks. Then it was just a matter of matting each panel in gold and arranging on my card base.