'Tis the Season to be Sparkly for Freshly Made Sketches

I'm never happy unless I can get some sparkle into the holiday season so I was glad to finally order some products in the Fancy Frost Suite from the Holiday Catalogue. I think they were intended for New Years, but I can see them being used in a variety of celebrations year round so I didn't mind investing in them. I used one of the Suite's colours - Sweet Sugarplum and matched it with a festive silver to get all the sparkle I could out of this one. I used the It's a Celebration stamp set, the Fancy Frost Specialty Designer Series Paper and the 3/8" Glitter Ribbon Combo Pack. Woohoo!

The sketch from Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #259 worked perfectly with what I had in mind:

So let's get our glitter on:

• I've always wanted a fireworks stamp set and the It's a Celebration set is just that, with different sized starbursts. Alternatively, it has a sparkler handle and could also be a sparkler on a cake or just on its own. For this card, I embossed several starbursts in Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder and then stamped some starbursts over them in Sweet Sugarplum and Pink Pirouette.
• I used the Layering Circles Framelits to die cut the sized circle I wanted to properly fit the card, with a backing of Sweet Sugarplum to frame it.
• The background DSP is the Fancy Frost Specialty Designer Series Paper. It is dry embossed already in 6 different designs and you can add any colour you like in many different ways. I used a very light touch with a brayer, and I do mean light! I used Pink Pirouette Ink and got the best results when I fastened the paper with temporary adhesive to my work surface and then lightly rolled the brayed over it evenly. By not having to press at all to keep the paper in place, I was able to avoid places where I got too much ink on the page trying to get the traction to start without the paper moving.
• Silver Glimmer Paper and the Sweet Sugarplum Glitter Ribbon form the background for the main image. A few sequins in Sweet Sugarplum and Silver add a finishing touch.

Have a great weekend!

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Product List

It's A Celebration Wood-Mount Stamp Set [142192]	It's A Celebration Clear-Mount Stamp Set [142880]	Silver Glimmer Paper [135314]	Fancy Frost Specialty Designer Series Paper [142014]	Sweet Sugarplum 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [141418]
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Sweet Sugarplum Classic Stampin' Pad [141395]	Pink Pirouette Classic Stampin' Pad [126956]	3/8" (1 Cm) Glitter Ribbon Combo Pack [142015]
Fancy Frost Sequins [142519]	Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder [109131]	Heat Tool [129053]	Embossing Buddy [103083]	Layering Circle Framelits Dies [141705]
Big Shot [143263]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

Fancy Frost Fresh Fruit for The Paper Players

Woohoo! It's Friday! What a busy week it's been, and when I say busy, I mean busy in the Craft Cave creating! I was trying to get ahead a little and I don't know if I accomplished that, but over the last week I've designed quite a few cards...and this was the last of them. I wanted to enter The Paper Player's Challenge this week:

It was supposed to be a clean and simple card, which, of course, I did not quite achieve. But we were to also include fall taste treats such as apples and pumpkins on our card. What sprang to my mind was my mom so many years ago, all through the summer and into the early fall, busy in the kitchen canning everything she could get her hands on. And we looked forward to eating all that wonderful canned produce every winter. I'm sure it got us through a few lean years! She worked so hard on it. And I know that all her love went into every Mason jar of peaches, pears and cherries that she put up.

I wanted my card to reflect that love, and I'm so glad that we have the Jar of Love stamp set and Everyday Jars Framelits with which I could recreate the scene.

• This was the first time that I have used the Fancy Frost Specialty Designer Series Paper for the fall background. I sponged the embossed paper to get that warm effect.
• The Fresh Fruit Stamp set helped me to create the peach, apple and pear for the foreground. The sentiment is from the Flourishing Phrases stamp set, but it was just the right sentiment for the feeling of love I wanted to convey.

I don't want to reveal any more of the process here as this card will be my free photo tutorial for my October newsletter. If you are on the email list to receive my free monthly newsletter, you will also receive the tutorial, which is a step-by-step photo tutorial including a list of supplies needed and all measurements. If you would like to receive my newsletter you can sign up below, with the understanding that you can cancel at any time without any difficulty.

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