Do you like stamps that are multipurpose? Stamps you can use for the holidays but still get good mileage from them the rest of the year? I think you're going to really like Wishing You Well(#147868/wood #147864/clear), from the Holiday Catalog.
Let's start with some Christmas projects:
I took my color inspiration for this little ensemble from the Under the Mistletoe DSP (#146921), which is in the Annual Catalog.
- I was able to use both the Old Olive and Shaded Spruce Greens in my bouquet.
- I stamped it in Shaded Spruce and used the dark Old Olive Blends to add more color to the uncolored portion of each little leaf. The bullet tip works best for this.
- Then I added little Real Red dots in the general area of the little florets. You don't necessarily want to go directly over the little dots because you will want to get a nice true red color.
- I was just about giddy when I came up with this layout - I think I'm into some sort of non-symmetrical kick. Any way this kind of a sketch is really easy to assemble because you are just lining edges up with your card base.
- I love the diagonal plaid with just a tiny bit of a Shaded Spruce pattern.
- Originally I had a shorter greeting band which I had placed further into the lower left corner. It didn't look connected enough to the bouquet so I re-stamped the top layer so that I could use a longer diagonal.
Same papers but just on one edge. I stamped the wreath once in Old Olive and once in Shaded Spruce. You want to turn your wreath before you stamp the second color so that both colors are distinct.
Add some red berries with your dark Real Red Blends. The greeting is embossed with White embossing powder. I little white baker's twine polished off the wreath layer. I used the Corrugated Dynamic textured Impressions embossing folder (#148026) for my background layer.
The Takeout Thinlets work great with this set. The Season's Greetings stamp fits perfectly in the die cut banner. You will want to do your stamping before you diecut out the box or you won't get solid images near the edges. I used a copy paper template so that I knew where to stamp and could get the direction of the bows right. It looks dark in this picture but it is Shaded Spruce bows stamped on Old Olive cardstock.
One more of this cards for today. I used this week's color challenge on Splitcoaststampers, So Saffron, Garden Green and Real Red.
I used Lovely Lipstick ink for the flowers and bow so that I would end up with something close to Real Red once it was stamped on So Saffron. I thought it would end up looking a little orange-ish if I used Real Red on Yellow. It is subtle and partially covered by the lace ribbon but the So Saffron background layer is stamped with Buffalo Check(#147797/wood or #147794/clear). I just couldn't resist!
I'm looking forward to checking out the St. Paul Art Crawl tomorrow. It's right in my backyard. Who knows what ideas I'll find...
Enjoy your weekend and I'll see you back here on Monday.
