Just Add......A Wreath! JAI

We have a day off work for a horse race today in Melbourne, not sure if that makes us the envy of
everyone or just the laughing stock. If  getting glammed up and spending the day at the race courseisn't your 'thing', perhaps hanging at home and getting inky will suit better. It sure made me happy today and I added another card to my stack of Christmas cards. I love the challenges at Just Add Ink and Tina's challenge to 'just add a W' is wide open to interpretation and lots of cheeky fun!

Peaceful Wreath is one of my favourites among the new Christmas stamps in the Stampin' Up!® Holiday Catalogue. Its so easy to stamp a wreath, cut it out with the dies and lightly colour with markers. I used mainly Rich Razzleberry, to match the ribbon,  for these berries with the odd Real Red one. The sentiment comes in two parts, and its photopolymer for super-easy placement, and i used two colours for added interest.

I took some inspiration from pictures in the Holiday catalogue, showing off the Woodland Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, and rubbed some ink to emphasise the lovely texture, before tying the piece of cotton ribbon with a casual knot right through the middle of the wreath.

Hope you're having a wonderful day too
Cheers
Rachel

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Lighthearted Birthday -CTC 48 - Holiday DSP

Here it is Friday again and this week at CASE-ing the Catty we are inspired by the Holiday DSP - that's the patterned paper to put it simply. You may have arrived here from Julia's Blog, didn't she have a lovely project? However, if you have started with me, just keep on clicking on the links at the end of each blog, and you'll see them all that way.

My first order from the catalogue consisted mainly of the must-have stamp sets, no Design Series  Paper at this stage, but I do love the colours of the Into The Woods DSP.  So for this Holiday DSP challenge, I decided to be inspired by the colours used in that range, there's quite a lot to choose from, so it was easy to pick a few to try with the Lighthearted Leaves stamp set from the Holiday Catalogue,

Something about this stamp set (and Dove Of Peace) remind me of the seventies and the gorgeous, colourful fabrics clothing was made from and I know that I am going to enjoy lots of colouring in with these two. Gold heat embossing was the starting point today, and onto the Stampin' Up! White Vellum Cardstock, because it has lots of body. Once the embossing had set, it was easy to colour the gaps with Stampin' Write Markers® and then adhere with mini glue dots. I chose a sentiment from Cottage Greetings, the mixed fonts appeal to me.

Could you see that I used the thick Whisper White card and dry embossed it with Woodland Textured Impressions Embossing Folder? It is rather subtle when you don't ink it up, but on this card I was aiming for a 'clean' look. The embossing folder was in my initial order from the Stampin' Up!® Holiday Catalogue too, and I know I will use it in many different ways, it complements leaf and tree stamps so perfectly, and there are some amazing Christmas stamps about, also using the Woodland folder.

Already in my stash were the Leaflets Framelits, which I bought at 15% off as a bundle with Vintage Leaves when the Annual Catalogue was released. I'm yet to share a card using that stamp, but it is great for masculine, sympathy and cards for gardeners - so I had to have it too!

If you need more information, or just want to tell me you like my card, leave a comment at the end, and I'll get back to you. There's a complete list of all the 'ingredients' used at the end of the blog, with a link back to each item in my 'Open All Hours' online store or this link will take you to the storefront. Now it's time to pop on over to Elizabeth's blog, Lilly Loves Paper.(I love that blog name!)

Cheers
Rachel

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