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Happy New Year & welcome to 2020! I made this for the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club January Christmas Challenge. We have a brand new year of Christmas Challenges!  You’ll need to be Fan Club member but that’s easy…just click the blue link to find out how. Bet you’re wondering what the challenge theme is..I’d love to tell you but you’ll have to go see for yourself. 
For my card, I started w/ a die cut piece of tan c/s, then took a wide, flat paintbrush & dry brushed a combo of white, white glimmer & gold glimmer acrylic paints vertically down the panel. When it dried, I put it into my Misti & stamped the wood bg first w/ the desert sand ink then again using Brilliance lightning black.  The ivory circle has the greeting gold embossed on it & edged w/ a gold leaf pen. The dk green circle was stamped w/ the lovely wreath image (& yes..it was a little hard to see the black ink on the dk green bg!) & colored w/ Prismacolor Pencils. I love the gold Prisma pencil on the dk green! I cut around a few of the gold berries & lifted them on top of the greeting circle. A couple of die cut holly were added under the circles. I thought the white card front looked a little too bright so I sponged it w/ Distress antique linen before attaching everything.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Merry Christmas w/ Holly 1256-06	RN Wreath w/ Berries 1252	RN Wood Fence Bg 1123-03	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D
RN Holly #1 die 5162-08D	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Prismacolor Pencils	Memento Inks
RN Mirror Gold embossing powder	Brilliance Inks	Ultimate Metallic Ink	Distress Inks	Krylon Metallic Leafing pens
Decoart Acrylic paint	MISTI

Congrats to Susan, the newest Featured Stamper (FS673) on Splitcoast! She has a fab gallery & I chose THIS card as my inspiration. I kept the blues & oval but used different images & dies & turned the layout.

I thought a little winter card would be nice. I put thank you on the inside but it could just as well be a winter birthday card. Had to take the pictures flat because this navy bg is one of those colors that defy picture taking. I have a couple of colors that the camera just goes haywire trying to capture the color & this is one. Flat like this, it comes out fine & hopefully you can see the silver snowflakes & silver embossed greeting, too. The snowflakes were stamped w/ the silver ink, but I didn’t emboss them..just heat set them. For the ice skates,  I stamped them on the lighter blue/gray c/s & used Prismacolor Pencils on them. I have really enjoyed using the pencils on different colors of c/s lately & this color seemed to work out well for the skates. A few silver punched snowflakes were added to finish.

Here’s the inside:

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a Happy New Year!

Supplies:

 

Ice Skates 373H	Snowflakes & Winter Cheer 135G	Interlocking Snow 015H	Blizzard of Thanks 545F	MISTI
Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Ultimate Metallic Ink	RN Silver Dollar embossing powder	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D
RN Oval Stitch dies 5008D	Tonic Snowflake punch 2	Prismacolor Pencils	Memento Inks

Such lovely ribbons on the Inspiration Site, Renaissance Ribbons! I was inspired by THIS ribbon. 

I’ve been on a Prismacolor Pencil streak lately & since the Misti came out, I’ve been rediscovering how lovely the pencils are to use. For quite a while, I avoided them because the fine details sometimes were lost when using pencils. Now I can just stamp again after I’ve finished coloring, to bring them back. I really love how they look on different colors of card. This is a dark charcoal grey looks on the blue side here, but IRL, it looks much more grey to me. After coloring the flowers, I die cut using my out of the box technique. 

The horizontal band was stamped w/ a distressed circles bg using the Distress oxide ink. At first, I thought the spun sugar would be the color to match, but after trying it & several others, I discovered the Victorian velvet was perfect on this color c/s. That’s one of the reasons I always try to save a few scraps of c/s colors..so I can do test runs of colors on them. If I don’t have a scrap, then I’ll use the back side of the piece I’m going to use. Hey..no one will ever see the other side 😉 On the greeting circle, I used the Misti again, to stamp it first w/ the oxide ink then shifted it slightly, & stamped it again in black. It’s subtle, but gives it a nice shadow.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a Happy New Year!

Supplies:

 

RN Daisy Bouquet #3 1320-02	RN Distress Circles Strip 1311-02	RN Marvelous 1319-01	MISTI	Staples 110# White Card Stock
Memento Inks	Distress Oxide Inks	Prismacolor Pencils	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D
Sequins	AC color card stock </