Wednesday 6 December 2017

Happiest of Holidays

I am back with yet another Christmas card, even though I have created enough Christmas cards to send out this year. What can I say? I just love creating Christmas cards.


Today's card was inspired by the colours of Heather's November colour challenge at the Winnie and Walter blog (see the image at the end of this post) and the layout of Lydia's card for last month's W&W Rerun challenge.

I used the image stamps from In bloom: Hollie's Festive Florals (W&W), while the sentiment is from Happiest of Holidays (W&W). The inks are by Altenew (Warm grays: Morning frost, Evening gray, Lava rock; Glacier caves: Arctic, Caribbean sky, Sapphire).

I used my MISTI to stamp my sentiment in my lightest grey so that I could stamp my images around it, thinking I might want to heat emboss the sentiment later on. I changed my mind after I had stamped all of my images and restamped the sentiment in Lava Rock instead. After I had rounded the corners of my panel and adhered it to my card base, I decided I wanted to add some splatters. To do so, I smooshed my Sapphire ink cube onto an acrylic block and used a wet paint brush to create my splatters. I do love how this turned out, even if it's not my usual style (or maybe because of that lol).

Places I'm playing:



Muse: ChristmasVisions - #90 Any Christmas or winter-themed card

Stamping Sensations - Winter trees and flowers

HLS Christmas - Anything goes (optional: stencil)




10 comments:

  1. Deze kaart is echt prachtig geworden, Mar. Door geen zwart, maar grijs/zilver kleuren te gebruiken met blauw,geeft het zachtheid. Met de toevoeging van ook al een prachtig sierlijk lettertype heb je heel veel expressie in deze kaart gelegd. Het past wel bij je hoor. Xx Ineke😘

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  2. A great card - the use of the different sets in the background stamping blend together so well. Thanks for sharing with us at Stamping Sensations

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  3. Beautiful use of non-traditional colours for this festive card! Thanks for joining us at MCV!

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  4. Many thanks for joining us at Stamping Sensations and sharing your lovely creation.

    B x

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  5. So very pretty, Marianne ... fabulous background stamping with those tiny images ... there's a lovely fresh frostiness about that delicious colour combo! Hugs, Anita :)

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  6. Love how this turned out and the use of wintry colours, not the traditional red and green. It's beautiful and flowery. Am so impressed with all the Christmas cards you've been creating! xx

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  7. Super simple card Marianne. Love non traditional colours on Christmas cards. Thanks for sharing with us for our HLS Christmas Challenge.

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  8. I love the colors, Marianne! It turned out beautifully! I will be creating cards for next year, too, because the challenges are still going on and still sparking little hamster whiskers!! Happy Holiday hugs, Darnell

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  9. What a fantastic color palate and you did a beautiful job with it. Thanks for linking up and playing with us at Happy Little Stampers December Christmas Challenge.

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  10. A lovely creation for our winter trees and flowers theme! Thanks for joining us at Stamping Sensations and good luck!

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