Saturday, October 20, 2007

Red and Green are great, but...




Christmas cards already?!? I know it's a little early but have you been shopping lately? The Christmas trees are up and decorated! I got my Hallmark brochure in the mail yesterday with all the ornaments on it along with about 8 toy catalogs. Christmas is 2 months away!

I'm trying out all my Christmas stamps and papers looking for the perfect design for my homemade cards this year.


I had to show you this card I made with my new TAC stamp set "Christmas Season" and my favorite paper "Hemingway". I love the colors! I wanted to challenge you to use different colors for your Christmas cards. Red and green are beautiful but don't limit yourself to only using them. Experiment using blues, pinks, purples, etc. and see what you can come up with. Use your imagination and have fun!

I used the Hemingway coordinating cardstock and ribbon, Prismacolor H20 Pencils, a Dove blender and Gold Stickles to make the card above. The Stickles really add a special touch although you can't really see them in the photo. Stickles are a lot of fun!
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I'm having a special from now until the end of November. With any $20 order, when you buy 2 Stickles of any color, you will get another one FREE!
There are 14 different colors to choose from.
Just email me or call with your order to be eligible for this special.
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Here's another card using our "Holiday Greetings" stamp set. For this card I started with cream cardstock and added the pink ink with a wedge shaped makeup sponge. I embossed the tree with Gold embossing powder and used a Gold Leafing Pen around the edges. The presents are stamped with a Burnt Umber Palette pad. Very simple and chic.

I hope you take me up on the challenge and try some unusual color combinations for Christmas. Let me know how it goes.

In the next week, I will post my classes for the upcoming months so keep checking back here. Thanks for visiting!

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