Inspired by {The Blue Peony}

 This week Denise has chosen the Blue Peony Site for inspiration They also have Pinterest boards here. and I came across this shot of Christmas items. I loved each piece of this pin from the colors to the textures. And I also received the Simon Says Stamp Tim Holtz Stamptember kit in the mail this week. I believe the kit has sold out but, they are selling the dies and stamps and such without the other things that come in the kit. There is a video seen here on YouTube that talks about what to expect from the class on the SSS YouTube channel. And there is no homework for this class but, they did mention that you could you know cut and stamp some of the pieces so you have bits and pieces ready for the class without using the coloring and other bits and pieces. So, I decided to start stamping and die cutting things from my stash with mine.

I used some Distress Oxide inks on Neenah environmental Kraft cardstock and I die cut those things.

Made a pretty good sized pile of "stuff" and I don't usually do foliage like this, I am more of a line art stamped image person so, I was trying to figure out the colors and or definition to the bits. 

 So I decided to add some definition to them with Daniel Smith watercolors. To the stems and berries and such. 

And then I did some of the sentiments. I did not do every sentiment in the set but, did do multiples of the words I did stamp. I picked ones that I think I may use and I started with some Black on Kraft but, then ventured out to heat embossing on scraps as well. and I thought OK this is a lot of words...

So, I decided to see what these would look like as a tag to start. The Detailing on the edges of the tag I love that detail. It did make me think this will play well with the labels dies Tim Holtz came out with a while back. ( I have not tried that yet but, I think it is coming) I put the Wishes up on foam pop dots and then added Christmas red stickles to all the berries that were peeking out around that big Poinsettia. The Merry Christmas here is a Sticker from one of the TH sticker books. ( I have a stack of them and I don't remember which one this came out of) The ribbons are unknown and I tied on some natural colored hemp string around them. I really like the subtle colors of this. And it will be interesting to see how the others play together. I am thinking about breaking out other SSS sets and seeing. but, so far, this is what I have done ahead of this class which happens at the end of the month and I think this is probably good enough. That's about it from me, If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.