It took me a while to figure out what to do with this week’s sketch challenge at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown. I couldn’t decide what to do for the small diamond shapes. Finally I remembered these small snowman stamps that I’d bought myself for Christmas several years ago. (You know how that goes… your husband says something like “I don’t know what to get you for Christmas, so just go buy yourself something you like and pretend it’s from me.” LOL) They turned out to be just the perfect size! I embellished the sentiment panel with some snowflakes from the same stamp set, but stamped those off once to get the lighter shade of purple. I wanted them lighter so they wouldn’t compete with the sentiment. The color scheme comes from this week’s CAS – Colours and Sketches challenge. It’s weird – as hard a time I had using purple and silver a few weeks ago for a challenge, I had no problems using these colors and for snowmen, at that! The snowflake eyelets are old; I bought them off of eBay years ago when eyelets were really popular. They started out white, but I colored them with a Copic marker in an attempt to make them match the ivory cardstock better. Oddly, they ended up with a bit of a purplish tint that goes along with the rest of the color scheme.
I’ll concede that where the CAS – Colours and Sketches challenge is concerned, my card is probably more like “clean and layered” than “clean and simple”. But the important two things are that I had fun creating it, and that now I have another Christmas card for the stash I’m building up for Operation Write Home.
Supplies:
Stamps: Snowmen & Snowflakes (Hero Arts); Holiday Baubles (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs); Perfect Plum, Kraft (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Perfect Plum (SU)
Other: Snowflakes embossing folder (Sizzix); square punches (EK Success); snowflake eyelets (source unknown)
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Great job on making those colours work so well for a Christmas card Patricia and those snowman stamps were perfect for the diamond shapes! I love the embossed panel and the snowflakes on the sentiment strip too!
Thanks so much for sharing your lovely card with us at 52 {C}CT & I hope you join us again very soon! Ruth x
Great card! I love those adorable snowmen (especially the one with the tie). The colors work really well for a non-traditional Christmas card and the embossed background is fabulous! Thanks so much for joining my sketch challenge this week at 52CCT!
Those little snowmen are perfect and I love all the snowflakes, embossed and stamps. Great that you’ve used these colours for a Christmas card. Thanks for playing along with us at CAS Colours and Sketches.
Louise xx
Love those three little snowmen -they are perfect, and I like all the snowflakes, both embossed and stamped. Great that you used these colours for a Christmas card so thanks for joining in with us at 52 CCT!
Louise xx
LOVE these fabulous colors–just beautiful! Your snowmen are darling and your dry embossing is amazing! Thanks for joining us at 52CCT! 🙂
I LOVE that you used these colours for your Christmas card. I am very partial to purple for my Chrissy cards too. Great use of our colours. Thanks so much for playing along at CAS – Colours and Sketches! xx
Fun is what is all about! I love those cute snowmen and that embossing folder is perfect. Thanks for joining us at CAS-Colour and Sketches
What a fab combination – both the colours and the sketch, thanks for joining in at CAS – Colours and Sketches – Jacqueline xx
Patricia this is adorable! That sketch is perfect for little images (I always struggle with those). Thanks for joining us at CAS Colours & Sketches!