Since the Unscripted Sketch Blog is celebrating Christmas in July (and since I'm waaaayyy too far behind on where I should be with my holiday card stash), I decided to see if I could combine their sketch with the very elegant Dublin-Style (but not so Christmasy) colors of Black, Grey, Kraft and Ivory from this week's Play Data Cafe Challenge to make another holiday card.
I started by detail cutting an ornate frame from a Hambly Frame Wallpaper Overlay (the sanity of this decision was questioned several times during the rather tedious process ... but the end result was exactly what I was hoping for). This also made the card work for The Res-Q Put Your Glasses on Challenge to use something that reminds you of glass.
Next, I stamped one of the holiday collage images from Tim Holtz Holiday Collections on Basic Grey Manilla paper and trimmed it slightly larger than the opening in the frame, so I could adhere without any adhesive showing.
Hero Arts Stunning Snowflakes background was stamped in Momento London Fog ink on a texty piece of Basic Grey Manilla Paper. Next, I added several Marah Johnson Black snowflake rub-ons to pull more of that dark black color of the frame into the design.
I finished with grey bracket punched borders, three Martha Stewart punched snowflakes (with sparkly half-circle centers) and a sentiment from CatsLife Press.
Ho Ho Ho ... Dublin-Style.
Fabulous Stef! Love the frame and the color combo is so elegant! Great card! Thanks for playing RESQ challenge this week!
Posted by: Denise | July 25, 2010 at 05:46 PM
Lovely card Stef! That frame looks awesome and was well worth the effort! :)
Posted by: Sarah Schwerin | July 25, 2010 at 06:06 PM
Awesome card Stef! Love the frame and your inspiration is perfect!
Posted by: Debbie Standard | July 25, 2010 at 06:10 PM
More then anything, I like the photos in that challenge piece! So cute the way you used that and the Unscripted sketch together.
Posted by: Linda Beeson | July 25, 2010 at 06:12 PM
Very lovely Steph, makes an elegant Christmas card! Thanks for playing at the Play Date Cafe.
Posted by: Lisa Somerville | July 25, 2010 at 10:26 PM
love how you incorporated the colours into this card Steff... very elegant and regal looking
Posted by: Dawn T | July 25, 2010 at 11:48 PM
Fantastic! Love the use of the colors. Beautiful card. Thanks for playing along with us at the PDCC.
Posted by: stampersuzz | July 26, 2010 at 02:01 PM
I love it! I love it! I LOVE IT!! This is amazing:) You really rocked this color combo--I love all the punches and that santa--the letters...LOVE IT:) Thanks for joining in the fun at the PDCC:)
Posted by: Sav O'Gwynn | July 26, 2010 at 03:17 PM
Amazing card Stef!
Posted by: de | July 26, 2010 at 07:14 PM
Gorgeous Christmas card and what a beautiful way to use those colors from PlayDate! Awesome!
Posted by: Shar B | July 27, 2010 at 06:56 AM
Bless your heart for cutting out that frame! It looks wonderful. Saw your card in a thumbnail on the PDCC this week, when I checked to see how many people I'm in competition with! ;)
Posted by: Colleen Dietrich | July 27, 2010 at 07:55 AM
I CANNOT believe you cut that frame out!!! But the result is STUNNING! Such a wonderful card!
Posted by: Sue Lelli | July 27, 2010 at 06:05 PM
Wow, I had to double read that you'd cut that frame out yourself! You must have a lot of patience!!! Lovely card, and I really like the different take of colours for a Christmas card! Thanks for playing along with us at the Play Date Cafe this week!
Posted by: Ruby 2 Shoes | July 28, 2010 at 02:59 AM
ooooh Stef!!! this is gorgeous!!! you have to make these... more of this and send them to your family and friends instead or regular red/green Christmas cards! They are going to LOOOOVE it!
Posted by: E.T | July 29, 2010 at 10:04 AM
What a beautiful work of art! Love it! Congrats on FAB 4!!!
Posted by: ~Tammy~ | July 29, 2010 at 12:24 PM