Festive Words – Noel

It’s been a busy, busy week. While Louise is visiting from Australia, our evenings have been filled with fun events, giving me less time to craft and create for my blog. We’ve enjoyed dinners out and a Braves game. On Tuesday night, we had some friends over for a Thanksgiving dinner to introduce Louise to cornbread dressing and pecan pie. Louise came to the office with me on Wednesday and sat quietly with her Water Painters. Louise painted this hat from the Festive Words stamp set (I love it!), and I built this card around her water colored hat:

Here’s a look at the Festive Words stamp set, which includes four festive images with imbedded words:

The 4-1/4″ square base fits perfectly in a standard envelope (no additional postage needed!). I added a square of the gingham pattern from the A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper to the Misty Moonlight base (the square is a [just under] 4″ square cut with the pattern in the paper). Here’s a look at the colors and patterns in this festive pack of papers:

Festive Words and A Little Bit Festive – what a festive combination! Here’s a closer look at the hat on my card:

Louise stamped the hat with StazOn Jet Black ink on Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper and then colored the image with Misty Moonlight and a Water Painter. With a Stampin’ Write Marker, she added a little Real Red to the band on the hat. She stamped the image again, colored the holly leaves with Old Olive and snipped them out AND stamped the image again with Real Red. She snipped out the trio of berries and added them to the snipped holly. So smart!

I really, really wanted to add a Real Red band on the card front, but the red band made the card look more like a patriotic card. A Misty Moonlight band was too much blue. The Old Olive band gave me the right balance of color and still a little bit of Christmas. So happy with how it turned out. If you like this mix of Real Red, Old Olive and Misty Moonlight as much as I do, I hope you’ll save this for future reference:

Stamps: Festive Words  Papers: A Little Bit Festive Specialty Designer Series Paper, Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper, Misty Moonlight, Old Olive  Inks: StazOn Jet Black, Misty Moonlight, Real Red, Old Olive  Accessories: Water Painters, Paper Snips, Tinsel Gems Three-Pack, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Festive Words Cling Stamp Set (English) – 164230

Price: $26.00

A Little Bit Festive 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Mix & Match Specialty Designer Series Paper – 164107

Price: $10.00

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper – 149612

Price: $9.00

Water Painters – 151298

Price: $13.00

Tinsel Gems Three-Pack – 161624

Price: $7.50

Misty Moonlight 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 153081

Price: $11.50

Old Olive 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 100702

Price: $11.50

Jet Black Stazon Pad – 101406

Price: $10.50

Misty Moonlight Classic Stampin’ Pad – 153118

Price: $9.00

Real Red Classic Stampin’ Pad – 147084

Price: $9.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin’ Pad – 147090

Price: $9.00

Paper Snips Scissors – 103579

Price: $12.00

Stampin’ Dimensionals – 104430

Price: $4.25

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Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

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