The Color Hues DT is also excited to announce an addition to our team! The very talented Bonnie Klass has agreed to join us and I know she will inspire you with her beautiful creations.
I'm also sharing my card over at the Tic Tac Toe challenge, which works for both the left column (ink blending, CAS, Die Cut) and bottom row (Die Cut, Metallic Element, Festive Sentiment).
I used three hues of pink along with aqua to create two modern style Christmas cards with these non-traditional colors.
The Snowflake Stripes stencil set has 3 stencils, two that create the stripes and the snowflake image and a third that could be used to color in the snowflake. I opted to just use the first two and after completing my ink blending, I sprayed both panels with a shimmer spray for some subtle sparkle.
Next I used two different sentiments from the Simon Says Stamp Elegantly Modern Christmas sentiment set that were gold heat embossed then cut out with the matching dies. When the panels dried, I trimmed one down for the landscape version, matting on some gold cardstock, then adhered to the white card base. I kept the other panel A2 sized, adhered to a card base, then added a gold strip down the side. After adding the sentiments to the cards, I used some gold glitter gems from my stash to finish things off. These were really fast and fun to make - I know I will be making more with a variety of colors.
I hope these colors inspire you, whether for the holidays or beyond. Whatever you're inspired to make I sure hope you'll join us! The challenge remains open until 9 a.m. EST, Friday November 29th. In the meantime, be sure to visit the challenge blog (linked above) to check out all the beautiful cards my super talented teammates and our guest designer Teresa created!
Thanks for visiting! Take care and if you're celebrating Thanksgiving later this month, I hope you have a lovely time with family and/or friends.
Take care!
Stef
- SSS Snowflake Stripes Stencils
- SSS Elegantly Modern Christmas Stamps & Dies
- Altenew Baby Pink, Fuchsia, Magenta and Aqualicious inks
- Hero Arts White Iridescent Shimmer Spray
8 comments:
Both cards are so striking with your bold pink and aqua stripes. I wouldn't have guessed it was a stencil--such great designs. I love those beautiful gold sentiments--such fun holiday cards!
I love this stencil with the background stripes and big, beautiful snowflake, Stef! What a festive and fun Christmas card! Thanks for the warm welcome and I look forward to getting to know all of you better.
Love the bold stripes in non traditional colours Stef, they really do set of the snowflake well. :)
Such a great post, so many lovely cards!! Your bright pink and blue snowflake is awesome! You are doing a great job with your Chrtismas cards! I'm still plugging away! Lol
FABULOUS cards Stef and I had no idea they were stenciled till I read your post! I just assumed the snowflake was a die cut against the addition of the pink and aqua strips of paper you added for the background! How clever and FUN! Thanks so much for making my color choices SHINE my friend...LOVE it!! Hugs. :0)
Super creative and fun cards! I'm not huge on non-traditional colors for Christmas, but these worked perfectly! Happy Christmas cards for sure and I do love those sentiments!
Your cards are so bright and festive, Stef! Love that you incorporated so many hues of colors in your backgrounds. You tied in tied in the touches of gold perfectly on both! Wonderful job with these colors. Hugs!
This just says Fa-la-la-la-la!!! Such pretty hues and love the subtle sparkle.
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