We are in the midst of our second snow storm for the season so of course, I'm going back to some Christmas-related themes for my blog today! This batch of snow is a bit much, even for us hearty Montanans. I-90 is closed in both directions not to far from us so I'm hunkered down for the time being. It's a good thing I have nothing on my schedule this week except stamping!
Are you a fan of the "stitched" dies that Stampin'Up! has been making in the past couple of years? I sure am. They create a stitched line inside the cutting line that makes your paper look "stitched". It's a fun detail that adds some vintage to a project. For Christmas, the newest dies include the "Stitched Brightly dies". These are dies with a Christmas Tree, Star and evergreen bough motif, all with some stitched detail. The stamp set that coordinates with these dies is awesome. I want to share what I did with this set today:
For my first idea, I wanted a more rustic card so chose to heat emboss my sentiment with white embossing powder on a Soft Suede cardstock. The background was embossed with the Pinewood Plank 3D embossing folder. I used the evergreen bough die with some Mossy Meadow cardstock and adhered some red foil paper behind it for the berries in the boughs.
For this card, I knew I wanted to use silver as my metallic component. I cut out the stitched star background on a piece of Pool Party cardstock. I adhered silver glimmer paper behind it to make the stars shine a little more brightly. I used silver embossing powder and eat embossed the star stamp on some more Pool Party card stock and fussy cut the star out. Did you notice the embossing folder used on the silver foil paper? That is a new folder called "Hammered Metal" 3D folder. It is really lovely!
Since the silver was such a success, I decided to try some gold embossing. This card features heat embossing with gold embossing powder. The tree and sentiment are both part of the stamp set. I layered this on some gold/vellum stripe paper that is retired SU product. Black and gold are so elegant, aren't they?
My last card uses the Christmas Tree stitched die. This creates trees reminiscent of a punch art style of technique. I used Shaded Spruce cardstock and mounted that on Whisper White Thick cardstock after I had used the die. I added some white flax ribbon and a couple of sprigs using a punch. The sentiment is also from this same bundle.
If you are a fan of stitched style dies, these would be good ones to add to your collection. The trees, stars and boughs could also be used for non-Christmas ideas as well. I've listed all my products in the list below and a click on any of them will take you to the online store. Online shopping is easy and no matter where you live, your order comes to you! For the month of October, all online orders will receive a special gift in the mail from me. I would love to be your Stampin'Up! demonstrator. I offer great customer service with quick response time, advice and mentoring as well as timely emails with news of upcoming promotions and specials. You can contact me directly or place an order and I'll be in touch with you.
At some point today, I'm going to have to shovel but for now, I think I'll stamp! Until next time,
Happy Stampin'!
Sarah
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