Hello friends and welcome to this week’s Christmas card! It’s another using Clarity’s winter build a wreath stamps – it was still on the top of my stamp pile, waiting to be put away after the Open Days at the end of last month! I hope you’re not bored with it yet…
I managed to work three current challenges into this one, starting with the sketch at Sunday Stamps. I thought the tones at Color Hues would work nicely with a festive theme and, as always, it’s ‘anything goes’ at The Holly and Ivy.
I started by cutting a piece of card to fit on an A6 card, drew myself pencil guidelines to reflect the sketch using an oval embedder and stamped the fir branch along them using ‘iced spruce’ Distress Oxide. Having realised there was a little bauble stamp in the set when I was using it at the Open Days, I decided to put it to good use by repeat stamping it along the branches. Even though it’s very dainty, I managed to ink it up in two colours by mounting it on one of Clarity’s stamp pens and then using the edges of the ink pads to catch the string in ‘iced spruce’ and the bauble in ‘carved pumpkin’.
I decided to sit the robin from the set on one of the branches and again managed to ink him in two colours with him mounted on a stamp pen, using the corner of a ‘ripe persimmon’ pad to catch his tummy, then rotating the stamp along the edge of a ‘walnut stain’ pad for his head, body & legs. It’s really quite easy once you’ve worked out the process!
I then simply added a gold Christmas Rub-on sentiment, a mount of Shenandoah companion paper and attached it to an A6 card blank.
The sunshine has finally returned after very mixed weather over the last week, so I’ll be back with more of a summery feel tomorrow!
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How sweet. I love the colours and the little robin is adorable.
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Thanks – this is rapidly becoming a favourite stamp set
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What a sweet card Deborah! I love the 3 branches with the ornaments and then that adorable little robin perched on the middle branch…CAS perfection! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Color Hues!! Marcia (DT) :0)
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Love it xx
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Thanks Lynda x
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And thank you for joining our gallery at The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge xx
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Love those Christmas branches!! Thanks for joining the fun and playing along with our “take sides” sketch challenge over at Sunday Stamps!! You showcased our sketch perfectly with your Christmas card!! Deb Horst, DT #SSC362
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Thanks so much Deb x
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This is pretty! Love that sweet lil robin!
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thanks! there’s lots of cute little stamps in this set x
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What a wonderfully creative way to use coral and green! Your Christmas version is delightful! Thank you for sharing in the Colour Hues gallery.
~carol
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Such a cute scene and again another clever way to interpret the sketch
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thank you x
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oh my goodness is this every so cute! Love the scene you created for your cute little bird. Thanks for playing along with this weeks challenge at Sunday Stamps!
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