This is my submission for Midnight Madness sketch challenge 21.
I had just purchased this stamp set from Rubber Stamp Tapestry. I followed their example on how to stamp the "noel". I struggled with the background of this card as the handsome hunter and the bravo burgandy seemed so dark. As I was riffling through my dp I came across a scrap of this gold glitter paper that I made for an anniversary card (somewhere in my older posts) and thought, aha! this is it. Hmm, then I had some difficulty with the 4 squares in the background. Everything I tried was too busy. Then I thought about the reindeer stamp I got as a freebee from Rubber Stamp Tapestry and that worked great for the upper two panels. The bottom half came together when I found this little background stamp. I then took the scraps of the gold glitter paper I just cut and used that in each corner. For the final embellishment I punched out three snowflakes in the colors of the card.
Unfortunately the picture doesn't do the card justice. It looks much more elegant IRL.
Stamps: "Noel" and "Reindeer" by Rubber Stamp Tapestry, scenery stamp by ??
Paper: gold glitter paper from Ace Hardware, bravo burgandy, handsome hunter, whisper white
coloring medium: none
ink: bravo burgandy, handsome hunter, old olive, mellow moss
embellishments and accessories: snowflake punch
Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009 GMT Views: 824
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Registered: March 4, 2004 Location: Southern IL Posts: 477
Mon, Dec 07, 2009 @ 1:31 PM
Fabulous card! One would never know you struggled to make this. The colors, design and papers work wonderful together. I didn't realize that you had used scraps of the glitter paper in the corners, I thought it was matching ribbon!