Season's Greetings - PDCC91

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Yes, I know that it's July.  But, since is seems to take me so long to make a card...I have to begin creating my Christmas cards now.  Last year I made a total of 55.  Anyway, you'll be seeing a lot of holiday cards on this blog for the next few months!

This card is going into the following challenge:

The Play Date Cafe Challenge #91

And our instructions are to use black & white with just one color, of our choice...and just a splash!
I was so happy to see this weeks challenge, because I love PDCC's color splash challenges!  This is always fun!
This is what I created.  I chose red as my "splash" ~

This is one of my favorite Christmas sets from Stampin' Up!  It's so elegant.  I think this set is just perfect for embossing.  I heat embossed the trees and sentiment in white.  See that tiny little red bird?  After tapping my stamp onto the Versamark pad, I wiped him off...then stamped onto my cardstock.  I embossed with white powder.  I applied Versamark (the marker) to the tiny bird, next.  Then I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig (love that tool!) to align him perfectly, stamped him, poured on a little bit of red EP...and embossed him.  Fun!
Some matting and a few gems completed this card.
Thank you for taking the time to stop by.  I appreciate it!

Supplies:

cardstock: basic black, real red (Stampin' Up!), stampers select white (Papertrey Ink)

stamp: senic season (SU)

emb. powder: really red, winter white (SU)

other: versamark pad and marker, stamp-a-ma-jig tool, red gems