Stained Glass-esque Delicate Ornament

There are many beautiful products in the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue, but the one thing I absolutely knew I would be top of my list was the Delicate Ornaments framelit dies. The coordinating Embellished Ornaments stamp set is of course lovely as well and available in a bundle with the dies for a 15% saving (which is what I bought!), but I was itching to get my hands on the dies in particular so I could play jigsaw with the little pieces, like I have in the past with the Lace Ribbon Punch and Butterfly Thinlets.

 I'll be popping this card in to go on the display boards at OnStage Local today, and will have a bit of a tutorial up in a few days showing my process for creating things like this. For now, I am off to enjoy my day of Stampin' Up! activities - including some sneaky peeks at the upcoming Occasions catalogue!

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Jolly Jumping Reindeer

I haven't got very far with making Christmas cards this year, but got back into the swing of it with the Jolly Christmas set.

As is often the case, the idea that came to mind was multiple colours on an image, so out came the markers for some direct to rubber technique. I did cheat a little bit in using the Blushing Bride inkpad to ink up the top and bottom lines. As I was working on this my brain was ticking over how I would do the rest of the card, and initially I thought I would have the reindeer leaping more to the right hand side of the card, but when I started spacing things I found there wasn't a lot of room at the side... but plenty at the top.  The idea to shape the top of the reindeer layer came not long after, and I have to say I am really pleased with how it came out. I trimmed the Sahara Sand cardstock to the width I wanted, then positioned it so it was half in/half out of the Deco Labels framelit so just the top edge would be cut.

Almost traditional Christmas colours used today:

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Inklings Cyberstamp

It's been some time since the Inklings team had a cyberstamp, but we had our first one in a while on Friday night. I didn't get a whole lot done as I just wasn't in the right headspace, but I did make one card that combined two challenges. It's become a common thing to make a Christmas card using non-Christmas stamps, but Jayne flipped that on it's head and asked us to make a non-Christmas card using Christmas stamps. I combined that with the second challenge of the night, which was a colour combination from Kerry Willard Bray.

I didn't see a lot of options among the Christmas sets I have, and maybe not the most imaginative of cards, but sometimes super simple is what you need.

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