Blue Christmas Peace

With the help of today's Featured Stamper Shellapoo, I made another dent in my 2008 holiday card stash. 

I was inspired by her Blue Cat Blues card.  As I spent time going through her wonderful gallery (she stamps tons of cards for children), I saw that she loves the emboss resist technique, so I used that for my background.  I stamped the SU Dotted background in Versamark and clear embossed on textured light blue cardstock.  I sponged over the embossing with ColorBox Chalk Azurite and Blue Lagoon blue inks.

The cardstock and strips of silver DP are both from a new mat stack by SEI called Poppy.  I had to use a circle punch on the corners (rather than my ticket corner punch) to accommodate my large silver brads.

The Stampendous Peace Window highlighted with a Sakura sparkle pen and I outlined the Giga Scallop oval with a silver paint pen for a bit more contrast.

Thanks Shellapoo for all you do ... and for the wonderful inspiration.

Comments

[Shelly]

I have to be feeling the Christmas spirit after the cards you have shared lately. By the way, I gave you a gold card award over at my Blog. Off to pick out a Michelle card to case now.

[Pearl]

I never thought of using that SEI Poppy paper for Christmas but now you've just reminded me ! thanks Stef ! lol great card too !