Two Holiday Cards ...and a SALE!

Hi everyone! How are you this fine Monday morning??

I have something exciting to share.... Michelle Rodgers is having an awesome holiday sale at Stamper's Dream. Now through November 30th ALL holiday stamps are 15% off. All you have to do is enter coupon code HOLIDAYS on the checkout page!! How cool is that?!!

I have two cards to show you today. The first one is the Impression Obsession Ornament Chickadee stamp. This one is going to one of my fellow stamping pals...someone who is evidently BIG TIME into birds and always leaves me such sweet comments when I use this stamp. I hope she likes it. :)

The card base was embossed with my snowflakes cuttlebug folder. The chickadee was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with Copic markers (see recipe for numbers). I stamped a second image on the Fancy Pants Happy Holidays DP (basically just the side of the image with the ornament), cut out the ornament, and paper pieced it over the image. The edges of the main image were sponged with Pumpkin Pie ink. The gold metallic string (love this stuff!) and black velvet ribbon were glued down with sticky strip, and the velvet ribbon wraps all the way around the card. The sentiment was stamped onto white CS, cut with a circle Nestabilities die, sponged with Pumpkin Pie ink and then matted against a black scallop circle Nestabilities die. I punched four snowflakes using my Martha Stewart snowflake punch in the Fancy Pants DP, glued them to the back of the black scallop circle, and then glued down the whole layered sentiment with dimensionals. The layout is Beate's Weekend Sketch #67, and the inside of the card follows basically the same layout.

RECIPE (chickadee card) ~
Stamps: Impression Obsession Ornament Chickadee, SU Circle of Friendship (sentiment)
Paper: Riding Hood Red, Basic Black, PTI Select White, Fancy Pants Happy Holidays DP
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics: 0 Colorless Blender, C1 Cool Gray, C5 Cool Gray, E02 Fruit Pink, E33 Sand, E51 Milky White, E57 Light Walnut
Accessories: Gold Metallic String, Black Velvet Ribbon, Circle and Scallop Circle Nestabilities, Dimensionals, Snowflake Embossing Folder
Technique: Dry Embossing, Sponging


The second card is the Artful Stamper Cat Nap stamp. I just wanted to make another Christmas card with this adorable image. Love that cat's sweet face. My grandmom has an orange cat so I think this one will go to her this year.

I started with an 8" x 8" piece of Riding Hood Red CS and folded it in half. This size fits nicely into a regular #10 envelope. The Cat Nap image was stamped in Versafine Black Onyx and watercolored with a damp watercolor brush and inkpads/reinkers. The bell was colored with Golden Opal Twinkling H20's. The edges were sponged with Pumpkin Pie ink, mounted against Basic Black, and popped up on thick foam tape from Taylored Expressions. The red rhinestones were all glued down with a small dot of Crystal Effects.

RECIPE (cat nap card)~
Stamps: Artful Stamper Cat Nap, SU Snow Swirled (sentiments)
Paper: Riding Hood Red, Basic Black, PTI Select White, Fancy Pants Happy Holidays DP
Ink: Versafine Black Onyx, Pumpkin Pie, Riding Hood Red, Old Olive, Creamy Caramel, Pretty in Pink, Basic Black
Accessories: Red Rhinestones, Crystal Effects, Riding Hood Red Ribbon, Golden Opal Twinkling H20's, Thick Foam Tape
Technique: Watercoloring

Have an awesome day, and don't forget to check out the sale!