Thursday, July 31, 2014

Christmas in July

It's the last day of July and I was feeling like it would be fun to make a Christmas card. Maybe it's the cool temps we've been having. Or maybe it's this cute stamp set and die: Phrase Play #6 from Papertrey Ink. There are sentiments stamps in the set covering a wide range of occasions - two of them being for the holiday season.
I played around with the set as is and then decided it might be interesting to fill that center area with another stamp- an image or a sentiment of some kind. I looked through my stamp sets and came up with Winter Hills. It took a little masking and adding a line here and there but I like the way it turned out. The sentiment is also from Winter Hills.  I used some reinker to color in the sky and highlight the snow. The house was colored with Prismacolor pencils. I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the background. Those 3 snowflakes were cut using a Quickutz die I've had for years. I used some Versamark and Holographic embossing powder on them - I think you can see a little bit of the sparkle. And I finished off with some baker's twine.
That's all for me today. Have a good one!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very sharp, the way that you've used this set to "broaden your horizons". This collection is one of my faves, and may just have to do a bit of CASE-ing.

Little Mabel

Leigh Penner said...

Oh, this is fantastic! So pretty! I love how you paired the die with that stamp set!

June Houck said...

Ah, this is a sweet little scene! Love it :)

Marybeth said...

This is wonderful!!!!! I love it...you are so smart to pair these two set together. What an adorable card......