Merry, Happy, Wonderful Christmas! for As You See It Challenges!

Happy Friday, everyone! I hope my American friends enjoyed their Thanksgiving feast yesterday and their leftovers today!! It's time for another As You See It Challenge today and this week, Amanda has a wonderful colour swatch for us:

Don't you just love that inspiration photo? The colours look amazing together, but keep in mind that they are very intense colours, all three of them. When I have to make a card using really intense hues, I make sure to have lots of white in my design to offset the competition between the colours.

I decided to  dig out a stamp set from last Christmas that is still available in the the Annual Catalogue - Wondrous Wreath Stamp set. It has framelits to match as well and is available in a bundle for 15% off.

• The Wondrous Wreath stamp set is a three step stamped image with a little tab to help you match up the shapes each time, without using a Stamp-a-ma-jig. I did really well with matching them up but the Bermuda Bay didn't show up at all over the Mossy Meadow leaves, so I actually offset it on purpose to get a bit of the blue to show up.
• I love the sentiment that comes with the set, Happy Wonderful Christmas, but since we're being really effusive here, I decided to add one more adjective using the Christmas Greeting Thinlits and make it Merry, Happy, Wonderful Christmas! Let's go all out! The merry and the bow are die cut from Red Foil Sheets.

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Since this is my last blog post of the week, I wanted to remind you, once more of this amazing sale which is only on until Monday night! Please don't forget to get your order to me soon! Have you got the Magnetic Platform for the Big Shot yet?  It's 40% off! And Fast Fuse is the same price as Snail during the sale! There are lots of great bargains, some up to 50% off! A great opportunity to get yourself some Christmas presents!

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

Wondrous Wreath Photopolymer Stamp Set [135047]	Red Foil Sheets [139607]	Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102482]	Bermuda Bay 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131197]	Mossy Meadow 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133676]
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad [126949]	Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad [131171]	Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad [133645]	Wonderful Wreath Framelits Dies [135851]
Christmas Greetings Thinlits Dies [139659]	Big Shot [113439]	Banner Triple Punch [138292]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

Wondrous Wreath for The Paper Players

In all the excitement of the new Holiday Catalogue, the poor old Annual Catalogue often gets forgotten and left behind. But I wanted to show you that there are many great stamp sets and framelits in the Annual Catalogue that are perfect for this time of year as well as for the holiday season. The stamp set I wanted to highlight today is Wondrous Wreath and the coordinating Wondrous Wreath Framelits. It was meant to be a Christmas stamp set and is terrific for making classy Christmas cards, but it can also be used for the other seasons, simply by changing the colour palette. For this card, I gave it a fall theme in line with The Paper Players' Challenge 263:

As this is a Clean-and-Simple Challenge, I didn't want to have a lot of different images. Simply an image, and sentiment and the background.

• The Wondrous Wreath photopolymer stamp set is designed for a 3 step stamping experience, and the great thing is that Stampin' Up! has added a directional tab to each of the 3 stamps so you can line up the images by aligning the tap of each one with the others. The coordinating Wondrous Wreath framelits also have a tab to make aligning them with the images easy.
• I chose an autumn palette for my wreath with Pumpkin Pie ink for the first image, Versamark Ink with Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder for the second and Cherry Cobbler ink for the little berries and the bow. The touch of gold elegance on the card contrasts effectively with the rustic background.
• The background is the Hardwood stamp, stamped in Crumb Cake ink on a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock. This wreath needs a fairly non-busy background and the Hardwood filled the bill when Designer Series Paper and other background stamps just didn't work.

• The sentiment is from the For All Things stamp set and I inked up the two lines separately using Stampin' Write Markers in Pumpkin Pie and Cherry Cobbler, cleaning them thoroughly in between stamping them so as not to end up with ghost images of the other part on the sentiment from the residue on the Stampin' Scrub. The stamp has the two lines aligned left, but when I stamped each line separately, I could center each one. The label and it's backing pieces are die cut using the Tags & Labels Framelits.

This was a fun card to make! I hope you'll give it a try. The list of supplies is below.

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

Wondrous Wreath Photopolymer Stamp Set [135047]	For All Things Clear-Mount Stamp Set [135155]	For All Things Wood-Mount Stamp Set [135152]	Hardwood Wood-Mount Stamp Set [133032]	Hardwood Clear-Mount Stamp Set [133035]
Gold Foil Sheets [132622]	Pumpkin Pie 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [105117]	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953]	Cherry Cobbler 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119685]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]
Versamark Pad [102283]	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [126975]	Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [126945]	Brights Stampin' Write Markers [131259]	Regals Stampin' Write Markers [131262]
Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129]	Embossing Buddy [103083]	Heat Tool [129053]	Wonderful Wreath Framelits Dies [135851]	Tags & Labels Framelits Dies [138282]
Big Shot [113439]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

Ornamental Pine for Mojo Monday

I know, I know!  You're tired of Ornamental Pine. But it just worked so well with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge this week. That little ornament was exactly the right size for that image square!                  
We just put up our Christmas tree yesterday, so that I would have it up for my last Christmas Stamper's Dozen of the year last night. I like having an artificial tree so that I can put it up early and enjoy it for longer, but I miss the tradition of going out and choosing a real tree and bringing it home with the lovely evergreen scent filling the house.  My hubby thought that a car deodorizer with a pine scent would take care of that.  Uh, no!  It smelled like Pinesol or disinfectant or after shave, not  an evergreen! Oh well!  Maybe someday we'll get a real tree again.

 Here's the tree and my mantle decor with the Many Merry Stars playing a 'starring' role!

The Mojo Monday Challenge was a "Tall and Skinny" this week! I really like Julee Tilman's design with the diagonal element.  I made my card 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" so that it would fit in a regular envelope.

• I used the Cherry Cobbler 1" Sheer Linen Ribbon for the diagonal element, but add an extra touch of elegance by backing it with a 1-1/4" wide strip of Brushed Gold cardstock. Don't those two colours coordinate well?
• I used some of the Cherry Cobbler Designer Series Paper Stack for the long rectangular piece, also backing it, as I did everything with the Brushed Gold cardstock.
• I inked up the pine branch image in Always Artichoke ink and stamped around the edges of the square, stamping a couple of times before reinking to get the feeling of depth. The ornament was stamped in Cherry Cobbler ink and a Rhinestone Basic Jewel added to the middle. I edged the sides of the square in Always Artichoke for a little more definition.
• The sentiment is from Wondrous Wreath stamp set and fits just perfectly under the diagonal strip.

And it's Tuesday, so, in addition to the amazing Online Extravaganza Sale, there is a new set of weekly deals happening and on sale until Monday, Dec. 1.

And don't forget the OnLine Extravaganza on now until Tuesday, Dec. 2.  Click on the photo for the link to all the amazing details:

And here's your chance to get everything you want and make some money for doing it!  The Stampin' Up! Starter kit is 25% off until Dec. 2

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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

Ornamental Pine Wood-Mount Stamp Set [135104]	Ornamental Pine Clear-Mount Stamp Set [135107]	Wondrous Wreath Photopolymer Stamp Set [135047]	Regals Backgrounds Designer Series Paper Stack [130139]	Brushed Gold 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102935]
Cherry Cobbler 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119685]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]	Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad [126966]	Always Artichoke Classic Stampin' Pad [126972]	Cherry Cobbler 1" Sheer Linen Ribbon [135839]
Rhinestone Basic Jewels Embellishments [119246]