Sweet Christmas

 For some time now finding one of these Penny Black Gingerbread basket rubber stamps (at a price not in pucker your lips range) has been a goal in the back of my mind... ( it tends to be offered up at close to 200.00 on eBay) crazy right? yeah, that is my thought as well but, a few months ago one went for in 30.00 range, and I thought and over thought and missed it... so, when a second one did it. Hubs bit the bullet and bought it for me. It arrived in the mail a couple of days ago and its such a really nice size. So, I decided I wanted to watercolor it and I stamped it on some Arches cold press with Versafine pinecone ink. and I stared adding layers of color in between other things yesterday.  

 Then late in the afternoon I seen that Keri had been chosen for this week's featured stamper at SCS. and She has a lot of pretty eye-candy in her gallery but, what stopped me in my tracks was this gorgeous card seen here. And I thought, that is beautiful. I had already found these papers the holly is from a hobby lobby pad and the plaid is from a recollections pad ( old ones ) but, the colors worked with my painting. So, seeing Keri's layered flowers, the glimmer of the gold and the big beautiful bow gave me ideas about how to layer up this one. I did use a circle die to cut the hole in the holly print and then used an Xacto knife to cut the tips of the holly leaves and pine sprigs as the bottom of the painting to peek through the opening. The ric rac is vintage and has a shimmer to it that did not photograph well so, its just wrapped around to the back of that print and then I used some foam tape because, that ric rac is also thick and not real flexible like something thinner would be. I tied on the vintage colored jingle bells with some natural hemp string in place of a bow and added stickles glitter glue to some spots for bling.

 The sentiment tag is from lotv and it was inked with some DOX a long time ago. The base here is textured Bazzill and it's 6" square in real life and probably a hand deliver card because of the jingle bells but, I was thinking this could be a proto-type of cards given with Christmas cookies. That's about it from me, Thanks for stopping by.