Swap card#1 for Hamilton Regionals |
Monday, September 20, 2010
Hamilton Regionals Coming soon!!
I am SOOOO excited about the Hamilton Regional Seminar for Stampin' Up! It is my first SU event and I am really pumped to meet other demonstrators who share my love of papercrafting in general and Stampin' Up! in particular! One of the things I am most looking forward to is swapping cards with other demos. I've been working on my swap cards and today's post is one of them!
This card uses the Candy Cane Christmas DSP from the Holiday Mini. I wasn't too sure about this paper when I first saw it. I am more of a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas, so the colour scheme didn't appeal to me at first. Then the paper came and lo and behold, I LOVE it! The striped paper on the bottom half of the card has lots of sparkle with the glittery red stripes. I especially like the two shades of green: Garden Green and Wild Wasabi. I used both those colours in the matting for this card. I also used the Merry Little Christmas builder wheel and teamed it with the Striped builder wheel from the main catalogue. I inked it using Whisper White craft ink on Real Red cardstock. I like the way the stripes look like peppermint candy! The focal image is from the Christmas Classics set and is stamped in Wild Wasabi and Real Red. I coloured the stamp with my markers to get the two-tone effect. I punched the image out with a 2" non-SU circle punch and then matted it on a 2 3/8" scalloped circle in Wild Wasabi. I mounted it using dimensionals. The only embellishments on this card are the 3/8" Whisper White taffeta ribbon and a single basic rhinestone jewel...just enough to add a little sparkle to the sentiment. I hope my fellow swappers like it!
Labels:
christmas,
Christmas Classics stamp set
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