Melted Heart

 There is an encore of the colors thrown down a week ago at SCS this week. (Navy, White & Silver) and I had seen that on the day the last watercolor challenge went live I think and I had a little pile of these things (papers) on the table and I started pushing them around thinking to do something "different" than the snowflake card I had done the week before. But, I didn't really get anywhere with it besides liking the papers I piled up. 

And then on Thursday the challenge for the "ways to use it" was do use something new or do something as a new beginning type of a theme. And so, I have all these dies, that are new that were calculated impulse buys and or things I shipped home to me from my mama studio. And these tag dies with the scalloped stitched edges are new ones from Unity Stamps that I bought when they had their pre black friday sale? something like that. The snowman tag is actually printed paper, and I have all these pads of papers with little word blocks or art on them and I did over the last couple of months take a few of those sheets out of the pads and cut them up thinking to use them the way they were printed as I like the art on them and I had the idea "easy project" type of a thought. So, it was in one of those shallow containers on the table and I could see the face of him peeking out and thought OK you could do a snowman card. And then with the reds and greens on him I figured that was too many other colors to squeak it by for a color challenge but, I do like how this turned out. The small sentiments on the silver tags are really old ones from Stampendous cut out with scissors and inked on the edges with some DOX scorched timber. The nail head in the tag hole of the snowman printed paper is actually pretty flat and the then two small brushed silver tags have actual mini brads in their centers. The largest printed paper tag has just a knot of sheer silver ribbon through it. I did dove tail cut the ends of the ribbons for drama but, its a fragile ribbon and it is already starting to shred from that. The domed piece is just a scrap of cheap watercolor paper that has a scrap of Navy linen cardstock wrapped around it for interest. And I thought when all the pieces were arranged that is a sort of "new" design for me, I tend to do a large image and fairly flat so, the whole lots of bits and pieces is interesting I guess. I am also thinking that this could go as either a "love" card or a Thank you card with the whole melted heart sentiment. ( that is a Spellbinders letterpress one that has a die that came with the stamps.) That's about it from me, I hope you're doing well & thanks for stopping by. 
 

Inspired by { Urban wear outsiders }

 This week Julie is sharing the Urban Wear Outsiders site and I came across this Gingerbread "Ugly" sweater and I knew I had some "gingerbread papers" from a recollections pad this season at Micheals and then I seen that I had this Tim Holtz sweater I had stamped and colored a bit a while back on the table in the container I have holding such things in hopes of seeing them means using them ha ha. So, I added some white gel pen to the sweater and some DOX scorched timber on the edges. 

I flipped over the gingerbread paper to pick up the sweater texture and cut it with a Scalloped die from the Ton and inked the edges of that with the same Scorched Timber, I stamped the sentiment ( Woodware Christmas Distressed Labels set) with Pinecone Versafine ink onto a scrap of green that picked up the colors in the sweater and inked its edges with same ink.

 I found a piece of Kraft colored cardstock to use as the base and ran the top half of it through the big shot with a Darice embossing folder with some scallops and framing that is kinda "Doodled" looking. And I decided this was enough, that doing it as CAS was interesting. That's about it from me, it made for Christmas card #2 created since the New Year yesterday afternoon and puts me at halfway through what I signed up for at SCS with a goal of doing 4 Christmas cards a month. I figure 1/4 of that goal will be used up on the Dirty Dozen Christmas card samples so, really I only need 3 different things, and I tend to lean towards Christmas card when doing challenges already so, I think it will be OK. and if not, there really are no stamping police. This is just a stash building thing. 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.