Our sketch challenge this week at Hand Stamped Sentiments #SC329 could be quite a classic CAS card but I chose to do a Christmas card - no surprise there then! And so wanted to add a bit more bling to it.
I have some gorgeous gold and brown papers that I bought from a local craft shop called Merry Christmas from Craft Sensations. I used these for the background and the strip of paper. The snowflake is from Kaiser Craft Winter Wonderland and it was embossed in white embossing powder layered on to a stitched circle of gold glitter paper. I added a gold snowflake. The sentiment is from a very old set from Inkadinkadoo. I embossed it in gold embossing powder and added the gold strips that I edged the backing paper with.
I also actually stamped inside this card. The sentiment is from Kaiser Craft too and the deer and the trees are from an old stamp set from Hero Arts.
It was my choice this month for our theme for June's challenge over at Sparkles Christmas Challenge and I chose Reindeer. I do love cards with Reindeer on them so it was my obvious choice.
The stamp set I've used is an old Hero Arts once called Winter Wonderland. I started off by stamping the trees in Versamark and using some Silver Embossing powder on them. I actually stamped them on to the same Designer Series Paper as the background - which is an old SU one - I loved the soft blues and the little stars. I then stamped the reindeer in Early Espresso by SU. I used some stitched framelits to cut out both the stamped image and the circle behind in some silver paper. The background paper has also been silver embossed using some stars from SU I think. The sentiment is from the same set and I've just added some ribbons in blue and silver and white.
I look forward to seeing all your lovely Reindeer cards.
