Rustic Retreat - Try Stampin on Tuesday #432

Today I was at a Craft show in Lindsay where a team mate had a booth and I was surrounded with Christmas crafts, some traditional, some more rustic.  Christmas is coming closer every day, a fact the weather this week reminded me of rather briskly.  Heavy rain, intermixed with freezing rain made for somewhat difficult driving conditions.  But the trip was worth it.

Some of the Christmas decor reminded me of the card I made for the sketch challenge with Try Stampin' on Tuesday #432  which also had an optional theme of mixing patterns.

The patterns I used were from the Wrapped in laid DSP

In a 2" punched circle, I stamped the image of a rustic cabin which was coloured with Stampin' Blends and watercolour pencils with snow and glitter added to make it look wintery. BRRR!

This was adhered to a background of 3 different patterns of  Wrapped in Plaid DSP.

Three different colours of Stampin' markers were used to stamp the sentiment, which was punched with the Everyday Label Punch.

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Rustic Retreat, Merry Moose
Inks:  Black Memento, Stampin' Blends (Shaded Spruce, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Smokey Slate, Whisper White, Seaside Spray) Stampin; Markers (Real Red, Shaded Spruce, Soft Suede)
Papers:  Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White,   Wrapped in Plaid DSP
Accessories:  2" Circle Punch, Every Day Label Punch, Puff Paint, SU Glitter

Keep Dreaming - Freshly Made Sketches #393

The Perennial Essence DSP, with its Mone -like patterns, is one of my favourite DSPs in the new Annual catalogue - at least for today.  Not that I'm fickle.....

I have used this paper in many ways, including framing each design see post here and using it to make a shadow box see post here

Today I am using this DSP to make a card to submit to the challenge at Freshly Made Sketches #393 here.  I worked hard at keeping the design of this card simple as that is an area I have a great deal of difficulty with.

The card base is Whisper White card stock, layered with another piece of Whisper White which has been embossed with the Subtle Texture Embossing Folder.

On top of that I add a piece of Perennial Essence DSP matted with Old Olive card stock - the Old Olive only showing above and below the DSP. 

At the top and bottom edges of the DSP I add a 1/4" metallic Pink Petal ribbon (retired) and then adhere this to the card front.

I couldn't resist making a small punch art Magnolia flower and adding it to the DSP panel.  

Here's how the flower was made:

• With the Perennial Flower punch- punch 2 flowers in Whisper White;
• With the Magnolia die- die cut two sizes of stamens in Basic Black
•  Use the Petal punch to punch 2 leaves in Mossy Meadow.  
• Sponge the Whisper White flowers were lightly with Flirty Flamingo and Mango Melody inks, spritze with water, dry and gently shape them.  
• Adhere together alternating petals.  Shape the Basic Black stamens, adhere together, and glue to the inside of the flower.
• Sponge the edges of the leaves with Mossy Meadow ink, shape them and adhered to the underside of the flower.  
• Add a pink rhinestones from the Noble Peacock rhinestone collection to the center of the flower.

The sentiment, from "Silhouette Scenes", stamped on Whisper white with Black Memento, is punched at one end with the Everyday Label punch.  After  matting  with some Old Olive card stock which has the end punched with the same punch, it is adhered to the card using dimensionals.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Silhouette Scenes 

Inks:  Black Memento, Flirty Flamingo, Mango Melody, Mossy Meadow

Papers:  Whisper White, Perennial Essence DSP, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, Basic Black

Accessories:  Subltle Texture DSP, 1/4" Metallic Petal Pink ribbon, Everyday Label Punch, Leaf Punch, Perennial Flower punch, Magnolia dies, Dimensionals, Noble Peacock rhinestone.

Detailed Gate Christmas Card

If the Detailed Gate Thinlet die were in another section of the catalogue rather than the Halloween section would you look at it differently?
I took a hard look at this die and decide that it had a lot of possibilities, one of which was that it would make a beautiful Christmas card.

I die cut the gate is Dazzling Diamond glimmer paper, then cut the gate in the middle.
I also scored and burnished each end of the outer edges of the gate so that I could wrap the edge of the gate around the edge of the DSP.

Hint:  When die cutting the detailed gate, run it through the Big Shot using the Precision Plate multiple times, each time changing the position of the die, rotating it from left to right etc.  Look at the back of the piece you are cutting to make sure everything has been die cut.
After it has been cut to your satisfaction, using the brush and foam pad poking only the stubborn remaining bits.

Tear and tape adhesive was used on the burnished edges to adhere them to the back of the Christmas Around the World DSP. The gate and DSP were then adhered to a Whisper white card stock base.
A piece of 1/8" silver ribbon was attached to the left gate,  slit made in the fold of the card base, and the ribbon inserted through that , wrapped around the back and brought to the front where it was tied into a bow.
The sentiment was White embossed on Soft Sky card stock, punched with the Every Day Label Punch and matted with Dazzling Diamond Glimmer Paper. It was added to the gate front with glue dots, and to prevent this from sticking to the card front, I added a punched Whisper white piece and adhered it to the backside of the gate. An identical size label punch was adhered to the DSP right
 behind the front sentiment.

Two snowflakes die cut with the Layering Seasonal Framelits were added to the side of the sentiment and the top of the DSP









Supplies Used:
Stamp:  Snowflake Sentiments
Inks:  Versa Mark
Papers:  Thick Whisper White, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper, Christmas Around the World DSP
Accessories:  Detailed Gate Thinlet Die, Seasonal Layers Thinlet Dies, 1/8" silver taffeta ribbon, Every Day Label Punch