Hiya friends! It's another week at The Paper Players and I'm writing to you from Door County, Wisconsin where we are visiting family. Lovely weather up here and so nice to get out of the steamy South! This week our fabulous friend, Sandy has a theme challenge for us:
Just right for the cooler weather I'm experiencing right now. I'd like to pretend that this will give me a jump on starting Christmas cards early but....who am I kidding? I've only just moved onto summer, lol!
The Wonderful Wreath stamp set and coordinating framelits didn't see nearly enough love in my stamp room last year so I decided to fix that with today's card. I was also inspired by the card layout on page 33 of the new SU catalog.
I started with a Crumb Cake base on which I stamped a sentiment from the set in the same color ink. Looking at it, I think next time I would choose a slightly darker ink just to make the pattern of the repeated sentiment show up more.
For the main panel, I embossed a piece of Whisper White cardstock with the Woodgrain folder. Lovely on it's own but if you look close, you will see that I brushed Wink of Stella all over. Oh what sparkle and shine...just like new fallen snow!
The wreath was heat embossed twice--the first stamp with white embossing powder and the second time with silver embossing powder. I love the look of the white & silver emossing on Crumb Cake. I cut two layers of the Christmas Greetings Thinlits from thick Whisper White cardstock and Silver Foil paper. I layered the two for a drop shadow effect and adhered them together with the fine tip glue pen.
I hope you like my card today....be sure to pop over to The Paper Players and check out the rest of the Design Team inspiration. We're delighted to announce today that all three of our Guest Designers have agreed to stay on for the rest of the year! YAY, thank you ladies--you and your work are fabulous. Thanks for stopping by!
The Paper Players Design Team
