Santa's Suit

It's beginning to feel like fall!  Last night the temperature dropped down to 10 degrees C, and the daytime highs have not been much better.  What happened to our summer?
I suppose its good Christmas card making weather, but I'd rather be working out in the garden.
Here is another card I made using a stamp from the Holiday catalogue.  It is a photopolymer stamp and I'm quite enjoying using them.

Stamp: Get Your Santa On, Good Greetings
Inks: Black Memento, Blendabilities
Papers: Real Red, Whisper White, Silver Gimmmer, Nordic Noel DSP
Accessories: Lucky Star Embossing Folder, Deco Labels Framelits, Liquid Applique (non SU), Dimensionals

Today and Everyday - Happy Birthday

This 3rd card did have a sentiment on it "You Light up My Life" but I decided to make it a birthday card.  This image in this card is again coloured with blendabilities, then die cut and adhered to a card.

Stamps: Today and Everyday, Remembering Your Birthday
Inks: Black Memento, Blendabilities (Daffodil Delight, Pool Party, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Smoky slate)
Papers: Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Moonlight DSP Pack, Tempting Turquoise DSP
Accessories: Deco Labels Framelits, 1/4" Daffodil Delight cotton ribbon, rhinestones (coloured with blendabilities), Modern word label punch, dimensionals

Serene Silhouettes - The Friday Mashup 161

The challenge this week with The Friday Mashup here is to create a project with trees, or create a project with heat or dry embossing, or mash it up and create a project with Embossing and Trees. I decided to make a card that not only had a tree on it, but also had both heat and dry embossing.

The treee was embossed with a mixture of Gold and Wild Wasabi embossing powders.  You can see the sheen of the gold on the image on the bottom.  The Very Vanilla layer is embossed with the Stylish Stripesf embossing folder.

Stamps: Serene Silhouettes, Something to Say
Inks: Versa Mark
Papers: Gumball Green, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Fresh Prints DS Paper Stack
Accessories: Stylish Stripes folder, 3/8" Summer Starfruit stitched satin ribbon, Deco Labels framelits, 1 3/4 by 7/8" oval punch, Gold embossing powder, Wild Wasabi embossing powder, dimensionals, rhinestones.

I chose to use the Summer Starfruit ribbon, but considered using either the Gumball Green, or Midnight Muse.  The Gumball Green made the card look too "green"; the midnight muse stood out too much, so in the end I used the Summer Starfruit.  What do you think?  Was that the right choice?