The stamp of the month for October will get you in the holiday spirit! Get your creative juices flowing with ideas for cards, gift accents, and gift tags. This set of 18 stamps is only $17.95, or you can get yours for the bargain price of $5.00 when you purchase other products to total $50.
The items created in the following artwork were made from the Elemental Level 2 Paper Packet ($9.95, X7141B, p. 28). They were fun, whimsical, and some were very elegant. This assignment really made me rethink some of my other paper packs; could they be "Christmas" material too? How about you? Are you a traditional-color card maker or are you willing to adventure with some new colors?
Colors used in the Elemental paper packet: Desert Sand, Olive, Pacifica, Sorbet, Cranberry.
My daugher, Mary, created this card. Using the darker colors and sanding the cardstock gave the card a soft "country" feel. She stamped the tree image with sorbet ink on sorbet cardstock, olive ink on olive cardstock, and cranberry ink on cranberry cardstock. Then she cut each tree into 3 pieces, putting them back together with a piece from each color. Fun idea, Mary! The zigzag border is cut with the new Cricut Art Philosphy Collection (Z1686, $99.00, p. 13).
Circle cards are fun to make, and even more fun to receive! Georgia Hauglid created this one. You can't see it in the photo very well, but there are tiny sparkles in the center of each snowflake. These are fun to add to your projects (Bitty sparkles, Z1263, $2.95, p. 126).
This beautiful 5x7 card was created by Brigetta Giles. I love how she used stamp rolling to give the sleigh more dimension. You ink the sleigh with cranberry ink, stamp once on scrap paper, then roll the stamp into the cranberry ink again to make the edges darker than the center. It really makes the image stand out! The little olive accent ribbon and button brad are from the Olive mini-medley accents collection (Z1489, $4.95, p. 127).
Enjoy this elegant card created by Joanne Coleman. The satin ribbon (Colonial White Collection , Z1126, $7.95, p. 124) and pearls (Opaques Adhesive Gems, pearl, Z1336, $2.95, p. 127) make this card very special! Joanne raised the tree and accent squares with foam to tape to create even more layers of dimension. The stamped images are lightly sponged with desert sand ink. Gorgeous!
More ideas tomorrow!
