Christmas Rose for Sympathy

Starting tomorrow, you will be able to buy the products in the limited time promotion, Christmastime is Here! Although it's primarily a Christmas medley of products, I wanted to show you that it's versatile enough to use for other occasions as well. I had need of a Sympathy Card and this is a great image to use on a sympathy card around this time of year. I just used colours other than Christmas colours and I got a whole new look for this stamp set.

• Even though this suite is based on gold, I used silver to emboss the large image from the cling stamp in the second part of the stamp set. With the colours I was using for the rest of the card, silver was a better choice.
• I used Stampin' Blends markers to colour in the image: Petal Pink Combo for the roses, Soft Sea Foam Combo for the leaves, Soft Suede Combo for the pinecones and Crumb Cake Combo for the berries. 
• I used Silver Foil Sheets covered with the now retired, but hoarded by me, Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets on the back, for the die cut lattices behind the images. It makes it so easy to stick them on. You just need to peel and stick!. I used the largest Stitched Shape Oval twice to created the backing behind the die cut image of the roses.
• The sentiment is the Sympathy one from Flourishing Phrases, with a coordinating one in the center of the card.    
• The finishing touch is some pearls coloured with the Dark Petal Pink Stampin' Blends Marker.

                                                                                                                                                                    You will be able to order these products starting tomorrow, but remember it is limited to "While Supplies Last", so don't wait too long! Here's what you can choose from:

Contact me with your orders as soon as possible or place an order for yourself at my Online Store.

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.  

Product List

Christmas Rose Stamp Set (English) [152431] $52.00	Christmas Rose Bundle (English) [153944] $83.50	Silver Foil Sheets [132178] $6.75	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [120953] $12.00	Petal Pink 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146985] $12.00
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Versamark Pad [102283] $13.00	Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder [109131] $8.25	Petal Pink Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147272] $12.00	Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144601] $12.00
Soft Sea Foam Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [148059] $12.00	Soft Suede Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147273] $12.00	Petal Pink Classic Stampin' Pad [147108] $10.25	Pearl Basic Jewels [144219] $6.75	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $41.00
Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.25	Roses Dies [152144] $41.00	Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets [144106] $13.50	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50	Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

Christmas Rose for Thanksgiving?!!

Happy actual Thanksgiving Day if you are a Canadian! I don't know when you usually have your Thanksgiving meal. I've usually had mine on the Sunday, but this year, because it's just Ken and I, and we don't have to travel anywhere, we're having our turkey dinner today! Yum! 

But I wanted to share this beautiful promotion medley that I finally had a chance to play with this weekend. The whole medley is called *Christmastime is Here, but the stamp set is called *Christmas Rose. What a beautiful set it is! I played mostly with Part 2 of the set which consists of one cling stamp with all the detail you see below. I stamped it in Versamark, added Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder on Watercolour paper and heat set it with the Heat Tool. Then I set out to watercolour the image. Here's how it turnied out:


*Part of the Christmastime is Here Medley Promotion, not available to customers until Nov. 1. To get it sooner, join my team and order it in your starter kit!

• If you have some time and you find watercolouring soothing, you're going to love this *Christmas Rose stamp. Yes, it's floral, but with the pine boughs, holly berries, and pine cones, you definitely get a holiday feel to it.
• I used Cherry Cobbler ink on the large rose and the berries, Poppy Parade on the smaller one (who knew they would go together so well?), Mossy Meadow on the leaves and Early Espresso on the rose leaves. When you watercolour with ink, you get a real gradient of colour depending on how much water you use with the ink. You can also dry the watercolouring and add a new layer to get a darker shade.
• Aqua Painters are amazing tools. They carry the water in their wells inside them and are so easy to clean and use with a second colour. Simply swipe on scrap paper until you get a clean brush stroke with no colour.
• The sentiment is from the photopolymer stamp set that is part 1 of the set. I embossed it with Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder on regular Whisper White cardstock and then die cut it with one of the label dies in the coordinating die set, called *Roses Dies.
• Other products from the medley I used were the *Christmastime is Here Specialty Designer Series Paper in the background, the *Gold Shimmer Ribbon and the *Gold Glitter Enamel Dots. 
• The card base is Mossy Meadow and the watercoloured panel was die cut with the Stitched Rectangles Dies.

*Part of the Christmastime is Here Medley Promotion, not available to customers until Nov. 1. To get it sooner, join my team and order it in your starter kit!

This medley will be available for customers Nov. 1, but it will only be available while supplies last, so be sure to get your orders in promptly when it becomes available. Here are the details:

You can purchase the whole suite at once, or as a bundle of stamp set and dies, or buy pieces separately, which gives you lots of options!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

*Christmas Rose Stamp Set (English) [152431] $52.00	*Christmas Rose Bundle (English) [153944] $83.50	*Christmastime Is Here Specialty Designer Series Paper [152154] $20.00	Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper [149612] $12.25	Mossy Meadow 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133676] $12.00
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Versamark Pad [102283] $13.00	Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129] $8.25	Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad [147083] $10.25	Poppy Parade Classic Stampin' Pad [147050] $10.25
Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad [147111] $10.25	Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad [147114] $10.25	*Gold 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Shimmer Ribbon [152156] $9.50	*Gold Glitter Enamel Dots [152155] $11.00	Aqua Painters [103954] $23.00
Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.25	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $41.00	*Roses Dies [152144] $41.00	Stitched Rectangle Dies [148551] $48.00	Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

*Part of the Christmastime is Here Medley Promotion, not available to customers until Nov. 1. To get it sooner, join my team and order it in your starter kit!