A very good morning to you all! I have some exciting news to share with you today. I will be a guest designer on Create with Connie and Mary for the months of October and November!! I’m so happy to be a part of such a talented team for the next two months! I have been a fan of theirs since I started with Stampin’ Up! last year. What an honor! For my first week with the talented ladies we have a sketch…
I love the simplicity of it and I’m a big fan of flags! I wanted to keep the card clean and simple so I thought the best stamp to showcase would be the Heart of Christmas. The base of my card is Early Espresso Card Stock. I embossed a piece of Primrose Petals with the Lacy Brocade Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. The flags are created from strips of Candlelight Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper. I stamped the Heart of Christmas Stamp in Lucky Limeade and again in Early Espresso. I cut out the center of the sentiment on the Early Espresso piece and mounted it to the Lucky Limeade piece with Stampin’ Dimensionals. It’s backed by a piece of Real Red and a piece of Early Espresso before being adhered to the card with more Stampin’ Dimensionals. The Heart of Christmas stamp is definitely one of my favorites out of the new Holiday Catalog. I hope that you enjoyed my Guest Designer card this week. Head on over to Create with Connie and Mary and post your card for this week’s challenge, I look forward to seeing what you do with the sketch! Thank you so much for visiting and have a wonderful day!
Stampin’ Up! products used:
Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Primrose Petals and Real Red
Ink: Lucky Limeade and Early Espresso Classic Stampin’ Ink
Stamp: Heart of Christmas Wood Mount
Designer Series Paper: Candlelight Christmas Specialty
Tools: Big Shot, Lacy Brocade Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Paper Snips, Stampin’ Dimensionals and SNAIL
All images 2012 Stampin’ Up!
Great CAS card and congratulations on being Guest Designer
Thank you Carolyn! Have a great day!
I am so excited to hear you are a Guest Designer! I am really looking forward to your creations! You are such an inspiration :O)
The soft Primrose embossed background really makes the bolder colors of the sentiment and banners “pop” on the card! Just beautiful!
Thank you very much Melissa! You are definitely an inspiration to me too! So happy you enjoyed the card!
Have a great day!
Congratulations on being a guest designer with Connie and Mary! Can’t wait to see what you come up with each week.
Thank you Sandy! Can’t wait to see your cards in the gallery!
Love your simple design! This stamp just works so perfectly with the sketch! And I love how you made the made the image more interesting by giving it more dimension! So glad to be working with you on the the Create team!!
Thank you Deb! It really is one of my favorite stamps! Im so happy to be on the Create team!
Congrats! And once again a lovely card. Never visited Connie and Mary but I definitely will now.
Thanks Debi! Enjoy your visit, they are a talented bunch!
Great take on this sketch. Congratulations as being chosen as a guest designer.
Thank you very much Wendie!
Great having you as guest designer, Justin! Love your work! This is another fantastic card with all the right stuff! Love your DSP choices and love how you cut out part of your greeting and popped it up!
Thanks Lisa! So happy to be with you guys!
Congrats to be a Guest Designer! You deserve it! Your card is superb!!! Your card give me a good idea to use up my Christmas pattern scraps to make banners like this!!
Thanks Sandra! Have a nice day!
That’s wonderful!! Congratulations! I’m sure the number of visitors to their site will rise now that you’ll be on there!!
Thank you so very much Margarita! You are too kind! Have a great day!
Congratulations Justin–so happy for you–& well deserved!
Thank you very much Donna!
Wow Justin, another stunner! I just love how you stamp and layer these sentiments. And the texture from the embossing folder is delish! Welcome to the CCMC team!!
Thanks Jen! Glad to be in such good company!
Love how you used the Heart of Christmas as the focal image and the background texture! Just a wonderful Christmas card! Welcome to Create with Connie and Mary Challenge Team!
Thanks Connie, it’s my favorite in the Holiday Catalog!
I’m so honored to be with you guys!
So great to see you as one of our designers this month. I just received this stamp set in the mail yesterday, can’t wait to ink it up. Super color combo!
Thanks Debbie, it’s great to be with you guys! I love the Heart of Christmas! Can’t wait to see what you create with it!
Wonderful card! Its so nice to have you join us as a guest designer. You always have nice cards and I enjoying seeing what you create each week.
Monika
Thank you Monika! I’m so excited to be with all of you! Such a talented bunch!