Can you believe that in only 3 weeks, we will be preparing for the best day of the year!!  Can’t wait!!  (Although I have so much to do between now and then!!)

This week, we are casing a colour combo from either the 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue or the 2017 Holiday Catalogue.

I’m still needing Christmas cards, so I turned to the 2017 Holiday catalogue.  I decided to go with a non-traditional combination which I found on page 35.

Isn’t silver and Pool Party amazing!

I don’t usually start with the end in mind (well, except for the fact that it will be a card! lol!) and today was no exception!  I decided to use the embossing paste and coloured it with a few drops of Pool Party ink.  I also added in a bit of dazzling diamonds glitter.   I then remembered that I got some Silver embossing paste in my pre-order of the 2018 Occasions catalogue, so I decided to give it a go as well.  As I’m needing a few more cards, I made two of each base.

The silver is a slightly different texture to the regular embossing paste and it took a bit longer to dry.

Whilst I was waiting for the bases to dry, I had a look through my Christmas framelits.  I decided to go with the retiring Quilt Builder framelits.  I haven’t actually used the framelit which embossing quilting lines so I decided to make that my feature.  And it looks amazing on silver foil!! The flower is also from the same set of framelits.

To create the banner at the bottom, I used the dotty thinlit from the Swirly Snowflakes thinlits and added a strip of white cardstock down the middle, which I stamped with the sentiment from the Merry Patterns stamp set.

Here’s all the cards that I made.

Next up is the talented Peta.

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Happy Christmas Stamping

 

 

 

 

Stampin’ Up! Product List

Merry Patterns Photopolymer Stamp Set [144973] $0.00	Quilt Builder Framelits Dies [144673] $52.00	Layering Squares Framelits Dies [141708] $58.00	Swirly Snowflakes Thinlits Dies [144678] $52.00
Pool Party A4 Card Stock [124391] $14.00	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] $15.75	Silver Foil Sheets [132178] $7.00	Pool Party Classic Stampin’ Ink Refill [122933] $6.50
Pool Party Classic Stampin’ Pad [126982] $11.50	Embossing Paste [141979] $11.50	Dazzling Diamonds Stampin’ Glitter [133751] $8.75