Hello! I hope you’re having a great weekend so far.
This week at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown we are celebrating Christmas with a snow people themed challenge! The design team has made some great cards with various snowman and snowwoman images. You can go to the 52CCT site to see what they’ve created, and if you love what you see, feel welcome to comment on their work – I know they’d really appreciate it!
I don’t have any stamps showing multiple snow people, but I remembered I’d bought a brass embossing stencil many years ago that featured several snowmen. I dug it out and put it to use for today’s card. I used some washi tape to hold the stencil in place on a piece of white cardstock, and then held it up to a window to trace the stencil with an embossing stylus. (I don’t have a lightbox.) I looked through the archived sketches at Operation Write Home and found one that my embossed panel fit into. I used some snowman print paper to further tie in with the theme of the challenge. The vertical strip of paper was originally intended to be a Christmas tree design, but I thought that turned on its side, the trees looked like pennant banners. I debated whether or not to try to color the embossing, but decided it would be difficult to match colors with my designer papers. Unfortunately, it wasn’t easy capturing the all the details of the embossed image when I was photographing the card.
I’m going to throw this into the ring at Shopping Our Stash, where they are looking for projects that don’t use stamping.
And now it’s your turn to show us what you can create! We’d love it if you joined our challenge this week. You have until 7:00 pm Eastern time Friday, September 23 to link your card at the 52CCT site. Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you’ll come back again soon.
Supplies:
Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White (Stampin’ Up); designer paper from Winter Wonderland paper pack (Lizzie Anne Designs)
Other: snowmen brass embossing stencil (Lasting Impressions)
4 Responses to “52 Christmas Card Throwdown – September theme challenge”
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Very inventive Patricia. I love the embossed snowmen – I bet they look even better in real life. I love the colourful dsp too. How clever to use the trees as pennants! Love it. Hugs, Gill xx
Very clever! I do like the design paper you’ve used and the embossed snowmen are just fab. Great take on the theme. xxx
Ce que c’est joli Patricia, l’embossage est vraiment réussi, biz
Wow, cool detail here! Lots going on and you tied it together so well… without even using stamps!!! Thank you forsharing your talent at SOS this week!