Wrapped in the Warmth of Christmas

I like sweaters, and in my high school year book I was once called the "sweater girl".

All of my sweaters, when I was growing up, were nice ones because there was no money to buy "ugly" ones.  For years there was no money for Christmas presents let alone sweaters that one couldn't wear on a day to day basis.

To this day I don't have an "ugly" Christmas sweater and I don't intend to get one. 

I don't find any of the sweaters in the stamp set "Christmas Sweaters" that ugly! My son said that I made these sweaters look too nice!!  I guess I don't do ugly very well.

For this card I stamped a selection of sweaters and added them to a panel on the card front.

After colouring each of the sweaters with the new Stampin' Blendabilities, they were cut out and added (some with dimensionals) to a 1 3/4 by 5" panel of Whisper White card stock. I added some Dazzling Diamonds to some aspect of each sweater.

Some Silver Glimmer card stock, die cut with the scallop die from the Seasonal Layer Thinlet die, was adhered  at both the top and bottom of this strip.

The card base is Old Olive card stock which I layered with Whisper White and then Merry Wishes DSP.

Supplies Used:
Stamp:  Christmas Sweaters, Snowflake Sentiment
Inks:  Black Memento, Stampin' Blendabilities
Papers:  Old Olive, Whisper White, Be Merry DSP, Silver Glimmer, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories:  Seasonal Layers Thinlets, Dazzling Diamonds, Dimensionals

Noel Pop & Twist card

All the talk today is about the solar eclipse tomorrow.  I hope to be able to see part of it, but Peterborough is not in its direct path, so maybe not.  Special glasses to watch the eclipse safely are pretty well sold out, so I hope you my followers take care in watching this phenomenon.

Today I'm still in Christmas mode, making a Pop & Twist card using the Snowflake Sentiments stamp set and the coordinating Swirly Snowflakes Thinlet Dies.

The card base is Night of Navy card stock.  This is the front of the card, held closed by a decorated belly band.

On the left side is an edge of dazzling diamond die cut snowflakes.  On the rest of the card front I white embossed some snowflakes and stars.

Remove the belly band and the rest of the card front is revealed.

The sentiment "Noel" is embossed with White Embossing powder, with Dazzling Diamond swirls added above and below it.

Rhinestones are added to the center of each snowflake.

The inside card base is layered first with Dazzling Diamond glimmer paper and then Oh So Eclectic DSP.  The sentiment is stamped onto a piece of Whisper White card stock die cut using the Lots of Labels framelits.  It is matted with a Night of Navy label.

Two snowflakes were  punched with a retired snowflake punch - one in Night of Navy, and one in Dazzling Diamond paper.  They were layered  and added to the bottom of this

The same unit is at the bottom of the card.

These are the panels on the inside.







Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Snowflake Sentiments
Inks:  Night of Navy,  Versa Mark
Papers:  Night of Navy, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper, Whisper White,
Accessories:  White embossing powder, Clear Embossing Powder, Swirly Snowflakes Thinlet Dies, Lots of  Labels Framelits, Snowflake punch (retired), rhinestones