Peace & Joy for Sunday Stamps

Happy Sunday!  It's time for a new sketch challenge over at Sunday Stamps.  Check it out:

Here is my project for the Design Team:

Christmas card featuring the Flurry of Wishes stamp set with sentiment from the Good Greetings (retired) set.

I just can't get enough of the gorgeous Holidays Fancy Foil Designer Vellum!  It sooooo pretty!  I used it here as the background for my design. I layered it on a piece of Whisper White card stock so that the beautiful silver foil snowflakes would show. In the lower right corner I used some silver foil sheets that I embossed using the Softly Falling TIEF. Because I hate seeing seams on my projects, I added a piece of  white 3/8" glitter ribbon...I love the bit of sparkle it adds.

The stamped snowflakes are from the Flurry of Wishes stamp set. I heat embossed the largest one in silver and punched it using the Flower Medallion punch. The medium one is stamped in silver on silver foil sheet and punched using the Snow Flurry punch. The smallest snowflake is stamped in Night of Navy ink and also punched with the Snow Flurry punch. I added a Winter Wonderland embellishment in the centre for some sparkle.  The sentiment is from the Good Greeting set which is, sadly, retired. The entire card is built on a Night of Navy card base.

On the inside I added a Whisper White panel that I stamped with the snowflake images in Night of Navy, as well as a sentiment that is also from the Flurry of Wishes set.

This sketch is super-versatile, as is evidenced by the amazing ideas showcased by my fellow Design Team members. I'll have another project to show you later in the week that also uses this sketch.  In the meantime, why not try your hand at it and share it with us over at Sunday Stamps? We'd love to see what you come up with!

Here are the products used to create this project:

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Flurry of Wishes Sneak Peek

I'm still up north enjoying some time by the lake with my parents, but I thought I'd show you another project I created using some new products from the upcoming 2015 Holiday Catalogue.

Christmas card featuring the Flurry of Wishes stamp set and coordinating Snow Flurry punch, both available September 1st in the 2015 Holiday Catalogue

I love snowflakes...not the kind that actually fall from the sky, but the kind that create pretty Christmas cards.  The snowflake images in the new Flurry of Wishes set are so pretty and look stunning when heat embossed.  For this project I began with a watercolour wash background which I created using an aquapainter on Watercolour Paper and Pool Party, Island Indigo and Night of Navy inks. Then I stamped several of the snowflake images in Versamark and heat embossed them in silver.

The white snowflakes are heat embossed in silver on Whisper White card stock and then punched.  The smaller ones are done using the new Snow Flurry punch, which will be available in a discounted bundle that includes the stamp set.  The larger one is punched using the Flower Medallion punch from the Annual Catalogue...the image is designed to fit the punch perfectly...love it! The sentiment, which is also from the Flurry of Wishes set, is also heat embossed in silver and then die-cut using the Lots of Labels Framelits. That little silver snowflake embellishment is one of the new Winter Wonderland embellishments...so pretty!

On the inside I stamped more snowflakes in Pool Party, Island Indigo and Night of Navy inks and added a sentiment from the Flurry of Wishes set in Night of Navy. This is such a pretty set...you'll want to add it to your Holiday Catty wishlist for sure. If this project hasn't convinced you, be sure to stop by on Friday when I'll post more projects using this set, along with a new tutorial video ;)

Here are the new Holiday Catalogue products I used on this project, along with where you can find them in the catalogue:

Flurry of Wishes Stamp Set (139732) pg. 25
Snow Flurry punch (140868) pg. 25
Winter Wonderland Embellishments (139621) pg. 23

The rest of the products I used are listed below.  Clicking any one of them will take you directly to my online store for easy ordering :)

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