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!
Lovely card Stef! That frame looks awesome and was well worth the effort! 🙂
Awesome card Stef! Love the frame and your inspiration is perfect!
More then anything, I like the photos in that challenge piece! So cute the way you used that and the Unscripted sketch together.
Very lovely Steph, makes an elegant Christmas card! Thanks for playing at the Play Date Cafe.
love how you incorporated the colours into this card Steff… very elegant and regal looking
Fantastic! Love the use of the colors. Beautiful card. Thanks for playing along with us at the PDCC.
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:)
Amazing card Stef!
Gorgeous Christmas card and what a beautiful way to use those colors from PlayDate! Awesome!
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! 😉
I CANNOT believe you cut that frame out!!! But the result is STUNNING! Such a wonderful card!
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!
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!
What a beautiful work of art! Love it! Congrats on FAB 4!!!