Holly Jolly Noel

Christmas is fast approaching and we're seeing more and more Christmas cards all over Blogland!  I love making Christmas cards all year, but I've got to admit that I get even more excited about them as we get closer to Christmas.

I had some leftover pieces left from my last Christmas card class and put them together to make this....

Challenges:

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge this week is Traditional Colors Sort of...  Use Red and Green but add gold or silver.  The door is about to close on this party so I'd better get moving over there.

And I used snippets for the bauble/ornament top, ornament, greenery and the embossed piece was also a snippet.  So over to Pixie's Snippet Playground for a visit and a chance to play on the swings.

The Featured Stamper today at SCS is Marion Rivas, another new stamper to me. One thing I love about these challenges is that I see the work of stampers that I might not otherwise come across.  I chose this holiday card as inspiration.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Ornament Keepsakes, Many Merry Messages (retired)

Ink:  Read Red, Garden Green, VersaMark, Encore Silver

Paper:  Garden Green, Whisper White

Other:  Snow Burst EF (retired), Clear EP, Silver EP, Silver Ribbon (Holiday Catalog), Pine Needle Border (Memory Box), Red Rhinestones, Silver cord (Michaels)

I stamped the ornament onto Whisper White with Real Red ink. When the ink was dry, I smacked the image with the VersaMark pad and clear embossed it. I could have used the Framelits to cut it out, but I chose to fussy cut to get closer to the ink.  The top was stamped on a scrap with Encore Silver ink and embossed with Silver Embossing Powder. (I take a strip of scrap and stamp multiple times so I have a supply of both silver and gold ornament tops.  Very handy.)

The Pine Needle Border die is a NBUS and I love the way it cut out so easily.

Thanks for stopping by again.

Enjoy!