52CCT26 Merry Christmas

 Happy Tuesday, all!  My card today features an unusual color palette, coming from the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge:

I really had to put on my thinking cap for this one!  I recently got some new Unity stamps called Winter Foliage, so I did some creative stamping and fussy-cutting and came up with this simple card:

I cut and embossed a panel of Basic White, using a Taylored Expressions Cross-Stitch die, then stamped my foliage in Perfect Pine at the top, adding a sentiment from SU's retired Seasonal Tags in the same color.  On a scrap piece of white, I stamped the foliage again in Crisp Cantaloupe and fussy-cut it out, gluing it over the first image.  Finally, stamped the pine cone on a scrap of Kraft in Pecan Pie and added it:

I added a few peach-colored sequins just to jazz it up a bit, then added a Crisp Cantaloupe mat and some piney paper from an old Kaiser Craft pad called Home for Christmas.  It all went on a Perfect Pine card.  Unusual, but it's good to get out of our comfort zone occasionally, right?  Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

"To whom can the holy God be compared?  Is there anyone else like him?  Look up at the sky!  Who created the stars you see?  The one who leads them out like an army, he knows how many there are and calls each one by name!  His power is so great - not one of them is ever missing!"  Isaiah 40:25-26

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Seasonal Tags (ret), Winter Foliage (Unity)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crisp Cantaloupe, Perfect Pine, Kraft (ret), Home for Christmas (Kaiser Craft)
Ink	Perfect Pine, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Sequins from my stash
Tools	Big Shot, Cross Stitched Stacked Dies (Taylored Expressions)

Christmas in Blue

Happy Wednesday, all! I've got a couple of Christmas cards to show you from a recent stamp camp, and they feature some new holiday products:

The above card features sentiments and greenery from Seasonal Tags and it uses Peaceful Garden DSP, Secret Sea cardstock, Peaceful Garden Glimmer paper, and Secret Sea and Cloud Cover inks.

This card uses the new Wishing You Joy and Winter Scenes, both stamped in Misty Moonlight.  The scene was stamped on a Perennial Postage diecut and sponged with some Memento London Fog ink using a rectangle stencil.  The blue paper is some retired Close to My Heart (I think it's Lagoon), and embossed with a retired Softly Falling embossing folder:

A wee piece of Cloud Cover ribbon and a sweet little pearl finished it off!  Thanks for popping in today!

On one of their forays in Minneapolis, the kids went past a home whose owner is a big Game of Thrones fan.  The guy created his own "throne" and allows visitors to have their pictures taken sitting on it!  Here's Wayne, complete with crown and sword:

I can honestly say I have never watched anything vaguely related to Game of Thrones, so I can't vouch for the authenticity of any of this, LOL!  But it looks pretty amazing to me!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Autumn Toile Trio

Happy Tuesday, peeps! I confess that when crafting or sewing, I tend to gravitate towards tiny prints and wee little designs! However, SU has some lovely larger designs in a fall DSP package called Autumn Toile, and I just love the prints they have designed!  I made some samples for my stamp clubs last week and thought I'd share three of my favorites!  Here we go:

I love pumpkins, so this may be my favorite pattern in the whole bunch! I created a tag using some CTMH Kraft paper and the Nested Essentials dies, adhering a Metallic Rub-on and some sequins, then stamping a sentiment using words from the new Seasonal Tags and Choose Happy:

This pattern is great for a masculine card:

I used a sentiment from Simply Said along with a diecut from the new Words for the Season;  Very Vanilla cardstock was adhered to a piece of Adhesive foam and diecut...it really pops against the tattersall pattern:

And finally, this little foxy print is just so fun as well:

I distressed the Early Espresso mat with the edge of an acrylic ruler, then cut a Crumb Cake partial arch with the Everyday Arches die, added a pine bough from Seasonal Tags, the Thanksgiving from Choose Happy, and the diecut greeting is from Words for the Season:

I hope you love all of these patterns as much as I do! Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!