Wishing You Joy for GDP165

This week’s Global Design Project color challenge offers three colors that are GORGEOUS together – especially this time of year. Tranquil Tide, Merry Merlot and Crumb Cake are so sophisticated together and just melt with each other. Here’s my card for this week’s challenge:

And here’s the banner for the challenge that inspired my card (this challenge goes live at 7am EST):

Tips, Tricks and Reminders

• Three Treats. Aside from the cardstock and ink, I used three great Stampin’ Up! products on this card. Can you name them? Of course you can – you are a rockstar. The leafy pattern on the letters is stamped with the square wreath from Feathers & Frost – a sleeper set from Stampin’ Up!’s 2018 Holiday Catalog that I love very much. Here’s a look at this stamp set:The letters are cropped with the oh-so-versatile Large Letters Framelits Dies. These dies are an investment, but they are worth every penny – I’ve used them lots! Here’s a look at these Large Letter Framelits Dies:The words the precede “JOY” are stamped from the versatile and classic words in Merry Christmas to All. Here’s a look at that bundle:
• Cropping Joy. I stamped the square wreath twice with StazOn Jet Black Ink on Thick Very Vanilla cardstock. Here’s how I cropped the letters from the leafy wreath:The “O” was left with a little open space when it was cropped, so I just stamped the corner of the wreath onto the cropped “O” to add a little leaf or two. Simple!
• Coloring Joy. I colored each of the leaves on the cropped letters with Tranquil Tide ink and a Blender Pen. After the ink dried a bit, I added another layer of Tranquil Tide ink to each of the leaves. I colored the berries with a Merry Merlot Stampin’ Write Marker and added a little shine with my Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush. Here’s a closer look:

Stamp Sets: Feathers & Frost, Merry Christmas to All  Papers: Merry Merlot, Tranquil Tide, Crumb Cake, Thick Very Vanilla  Inks: Tranquil Tide, Regals Stampin’ Write Markers (Merry Merlot), StazOn Jet Black  Accessories: Large Letters Framelits Dies, Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush, Blender Pen, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Feather & Frost Photopolymer Stamp Set – 147771

Price: $21.00

Merry Christmas To All Photopolymer Stamp Set – 147702

Price: $27.00

Large Letters Framelits Dies – 141712

Price: $99.00

Blender Pens – 102845

Price: $12.00

Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush – 141897

Price: $8.00

Regals Stampin’ Write Markers – 147155

Price: $30.00

Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin’ Pad – 147146

Price: $7.50

Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad – 101406

Price: $10.00

Tranquil Tide 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 144246

Price: $8.50

Merry Merlot 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 146979

Price: $8.50

Crumb Cake 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 120953

Price: $8.50

Very Vanilla 8-1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock – 144237

Price: $7.75

Stampin’ Dimensionals – 104430

Price: $4.00

Supply List

What do you think? Don’t you love these colors? I hope you’ll pop over to the Global Design Project site to see the cards by the design team members and to play along with this week’s challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

Going, Going, Almost Gone

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