Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Merry Christmas

Today's card was created for the latest Jingle Belles card challenge. To create my card I started by layering some basic black cardstock from Stampin' UP onto my standard white card base. I then layered a piece of red patterned paper from the American Crafts Very Merry 6x6 paper pad on top and added some white dashed lines around the outer edge for some fun contrast. I then die cut the snow globe images from the Papertrey Ink Winter Snow Globe stamp and die collection. I prepped the die cut images with my EK Success powder tool and stamped the base of the snow globe onto the cardstock using Versamark ink and heat set it using Recollections detail embossing powder in silver. I then stamped the snowflakes using more Versamark ink and heat set them twice, once using Ranger's holographic embossing powder for a fun sparkle and again with Recollections detail embossing powder in snow. I love the little extra glimmer and shine stamping it twice gave the images. I then die cut and stamped the Santa, snowman, and tree images onto some white Copic-friendly cardstock and colored them using my alcohol markers. I then stamped the sentiment onto more of the same black cardstock using the Amy R Stamps Big Christmas Wishes stamp set and heat embossed it using more of the Recollections detail embossing powder in snow. I trimmed the sentiment down to create a fishtail banner. I then mounted the snow globes directly to the card base using the sketch as my guide and popped the focal images up off of them using Stampin' UP's foam dimensionals and the fishtail banner using some 3M foam tape. I love how adorably this card turned out. I hope you like it too!


7 comments:

Yoonsun Hur said...

Hi Celeste!!

Congratulations!! You are a winner from my Altenew Watercolor Release Blog Hop post. Celeste, to claim your prize($30 Altenew gift card), please email Altenew at winner@altenew.com

Congrats again and have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs,
Yoonsun

Lisa Elton said...

Love that you turned the circles into snow globes, this is adorable!

lauren bergold said...

ohhhhhhhh that is clever, to use snowglobes as the three shapes, and the black snowy paper really makes them pop! awesome take on the sketch, so happy you could hang out with us at JINGLE BELLES! ♥

Viv said...

Great Xmas card and love the sweet little images you used too ;) Viv xx

SmilynStef said...

Cute Cute Cute ... love how you used snow globes for the sketch element ... so very glad you got SKETCHY with us at Jingle Belles.

Sybrina K said...

Celeste, This is absolutely adorable! I love your interpretation of that sketch, and the colors are fabulous!!!

Aimeslee Winans said...

Celeste, just toooo darn cute!!! xoxo