Green Christmas

 Happy St. Patrick's Day. I'm celebrating by making a green Christmas card.

For the big focal sentiment, I stamped the shadow area with a sheet music stamp before adding the green letters. I added some white holly leaves with a few red micro beads as holly berries. Just to switch it up a little, there's a contrasting strip of paper along the bottom of this mini slimline size card.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Jingle Belles -- Primarily Green (sorry, no grinch)

ABC Christmas -- F is for Focal Sentiment

Simon Says Wednesday -- Bit of Green

Word Art Wednesday #691 -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2511 -- anything goes

 

You're the best!

 I saw a technique that's new to me and tried it out in this card. In a nutshell, stamp an image, then use a stencil to add color over select parts of the image. (this is not about having a matching stencil to color the image, you're just adding color without worrying about keeping in the lines or anything like that.) I saw this in a stamp company newsletter, and they were using organic shapes to add color. I have a stencil with a variety of geometric shapes, so that's what I went with. It was fund to match geometric shapes with bits of the image.

First, the image was black-embossed. Then I used a small circle stencil to colors some flowers pink, a triangle stencil to add some green to the bouquet, and a long, thin diamond shape to color the vase. I die thin circles in blue and pink and used them to frame the main image. The sentiment as also black-embossed, with a  pink stenciled circle emphasizing the "Best!" A few blue circles were sprinkled on as a sort of muted embellishment.

This card is entered in these challenges:

The Flower Challenge #100 -- add circles

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2510 -- anything goes

A Cut Above -- anything with dies

Word Art Wednesday #689 -- anything goes

 

Snippets strips

 I'm always on the lookout for interesting ways to use leftover bits of paper, so I had to try this technique I found on Splitcoast. It takes a couple of one-inch wide strips and two one-inch squares of snippets to create an interesting design with a pinwheel at the center. You could use a different width of strip, just adjust the size of the squares accordingly.  (I also used a white snippet for the main panel and a light blue snippet for the matting.)

Embossing the panel added some texture, with a flower and gem embellishment.  

This card is entered in these challenges:

Snippets Playground #501 -- use snippets

Word Art Wednesday #689 -- anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore #113 -- anything goes

The Paper Funday #74 -- anything goes

Digi Choosday -- anything goes

Creative Inspirations -- Anything goes 

Simon Says Stamp Monday -- your favorite technique (dry embossing)