Reason for the Season triple stamping

A while back I saw a demonstration on triple stamping so I thought I'd give it a go! Of course, I had a Christmas card in mind and I wanted to use the Reason for the Season stamp set that I got towards the end of 2015. It also comes with a Festive Flower Builder punch that you can use to punch out the poinsettia in any color you like. I was concentrating more on that, I made a wreath which I will post a little later, but I must say the punch makes the most beautiful flowers! But today, I finally got the stamp set out, and here is my card

On the smallest (the top) whisper white layer, after creating a mask for the sentiment, I embossed it in Gold. After layering the three white mats (using a little bit of snail on the back of each of the top two pieces to hold them together), I covered the sentiment with the mask and embossed the poinsettias using gold embossing powder. The stamp set is a triple stamp, so I stamped the second part of the flower (the petals) in Cherry Cobbler and the leaves in Garden Green. Now, when you've finished stamping, there are white spaces left within the flower and petals themselves and I didn't particularly like the look. I wanted the flower to be totally 'red'. So I took my Real Red Stampin' Write marker and filled in those white spaces and similarly using my Garden Green marker to fill in the leaves. I also used Crushed Curry to paint the middle of each flower. I was happy with the result, so now it was time to actually 'layer' the layers so to speak! The card base is Real Red and the Whisper White layers are matted with Gold foil. And for the final touch, I used my Wink of Stella pen to brush the flowers and petals! The picture doesn't do it justice, but then pictures rarely do! In person, I think it is a beautiful card! It does take a little while to make, but I think the end result was worth it, plus I really enjoyed 'painting' the flowers!

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Snow Place like the woods!

Well, I can't seem to stop making Christmas cards! It's such a beautiful season of the year, it makes my heart smile! The inspiration for this card came from a card that Tina Zinck created with the Merry Mice stamp set (one which hasn't reached my mailbox just yet!), it is so cute, take a hop over to her blog The Serene Stamper and take a peek! So anyway, I thought I'd put a snowman in the woods instead! Here's my card

The base of my card is Whisper White with a Pool Party Mat. The top layer began with Whisper White, I took the Woodland embossing folder and sponged Pool Party, Island Indigo and Marina Mist onto it and then stamped the Christmas tree from Lovely as a Tree onto the embossing folder over the blue inks. Once this was done I ran it through the Big Shot. I took a little Crumb Cake ink on a sponge and lightly brushed it over the birch trees to add a small amount of color to them. I then sponged the entire mat with Versamark and sprinkled Iridescent Ice embossing powder (retired from Stampin' Up) on top and heat set it, not sure if the picture is picking that up too well but it's a beautiful sparkly winter effect. I stamped the snowman from the Snow Place set, colored him with stamp 'n write markers and then fussy cut him. I used some burlap ribbon, frayed the edges and placed it along the bottom of the mat with a little vintage wooden snowflake and a snowflake sequin on top. The sentiment is a non-stampin' up image, but it was the one that I thought went best with this card. I really enjoyed making it and loved the way the Christmas trees appear to be behind the birch trees, so many things can be achieved using this embossing folder, images and ink! I hope you like my card, should you need any of the items I have listed, you can order them from my site which is listed at the top right of this post. I would really appreciate your business. Also, if you need a holiday or annual catalog, just drop me an email and I would be glad to send them to you.

Christmas Pines 'Tis the Season

Oh Boy, do I really really love this set - Christmas Pines! I made another card today using this stamp set and the framelits. For the first time I'm going to enter into a sketch contest! Each week Freshly Made Sketches has a new sketch (this week it's number 254) for you to enter if you choose, so I figured, why not, let's give it a go! This is the sketch

and this is my card

The card base is Cherry Cobbler with a Whisper White mat that has been embossed with the Softly Falling embossing folder. I stamped the pine leaves first in Garden Green and Old Olive and then cut some out using the framelits and attached them around the stamped images. I used the framelits again to cut out the three pine cones using the copper foil and Chocolate Chip paper. Under the pine cones I wrapped some copper metallic thread around the pine leaves to give it some added interest and then finished it off with a triple bow of linen thread. The sentiment is also from the same stamp set, Christmas Pines. I had fun making this card, I hope you like it! 

All of the items I used are from Stampin' Up, so if there are any items you would like to purchase, a link to my online store is at the top right of this post. I would truly appreciate your business!