Stamp Off Rainbow Builder with Beautiful You

Welcome, welcome, to our final Stamp Off Challenge

of 2017.  Buffy, Susan and I totally appreciate the fact

that you check in on our efforts to inspire each other.

This week, we are enjoying a sparkly challenge.  Now I 

did not go with the "expected" New Years option,

and we will see if I am the only one.

I continue to need sympathy or "get better" cards, so

decided that this would be a good place to put my sparkle.

The sentiment from Beautiful You on page 141 works well

for a variety of difficult life events, which makes it

extremely useful.  

For the sparkle, I used Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer

paper (p 194), to create clouds with the Rainbow Builder

Framelits Dies on page 33 of the Occasions 2018

catalog that will be released next week.  

I hope that you enjoyed this bit of Friday sparkle.
Now please check out what Susan and Buffy
did to shine in the final days of 2017!

Santa's Sleigh Reindeer with Embossing Paste

Even tho this is a Christmas card, it could also

be reinvented as a winter or Christmas thank you card.

The gray panel features Embossing Paste (p 201) and the

Pattern Party Decorative Masks.  The deer comes from the 

Santa's Sleigh set on page 119 with coordinating 

Santa's Sleigh Thinlits Dies on page 214.  

Of course I used my go-to favorite paper stack, 

Wood Textures, on page 187.  I think that this Designer 

 Series Paper looks good with anything and everything!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Night in Bethlehem

As Christmas approaches, I am drawn to the authentic

message, captured in images of the star and a young

couple.  For me, the Night in Bethlehem set on page 26,

with coordinating Bethlehem Edgelits dies, captures

the feeling of Joy and Expectation.  The shiny sparkles,

paired with dark, human figures say it all.

We bring our humanity down the road that we travel,

keeping our eye on a bright star ahead.

Colorful Seasons with Christmas Pines

Sorry, but I really do need to find a better way to

take pictures of cards that I blog.  Maybe that will

be my New Year's resolution!

This card also signals that fact that although I have

readily embraced metalics on my Christmas cards, 

I continue to have an issue with using Black

on these cards.  I do, however, like other nontraditional

color combinations.  In this example, Blushing Bride

and Sweet Sugarplum.  I used the snowflakes and 

thinlits from the Colorful Seasons set (p 147) and

Seasonal Layers Thinlits.  What a lovely combination!

The sentiment comes from Christmas Pines, on page 120.

Add a bit of 1/4 inch Copper Ribbon and I'm good to go!

Seasonal Chums Deer on Ovals

Seasonal Chums, with the coordinating Seasonal Tags

Framelits Dies, on page 47 of the Holiday catalog, is an

incredibly sweet collection of product.  They are designed

to be used as tags, but you can also separate the images and

mount the front or back of the images individually.

In this example, I used the Layering Ovals Framelits and

Stitched Shapes Framelits (p 214) as backdrops for the

deer image.  These ovals were placed on a layer of 

Color Theory Designer Series Paper stack on page 187.

I added a bit of linen thread to pull the card together.