Good Tuesday morning.......

and welcome to day 2 of ISC's Christmas Card Extravaganza/Blog Hop. Today I will show you another Christmas card I made with one of the gorgeous new sets that were released yesterday and it is called "Festive Season". When I think festive, well the good old silver/white color combo comes to mind. So, I've got out some gorgeous silver paper I've got last year at Target of all places (love that place ;D) but since it is a little on the flimsy side I matted it on some True Black cs from PTI in combination with a white PTI cs base. But before I matted the silver paper I ran it through my Bug, my Cuttlebug that is, and used one of my new folders "Victoria" I've ordered back in August I believe and it finally arrived the end of September. Anyhow, I loved how crisp it came out and immediately I thought, hmmm lets combine it with the flourish of the Festive Season set. I tell ya, sometimes things work themselves out ;D. Since I had planned to use the gorgeous ornament included in this set to begin with it kind of was nice to give my card that little extra umph..... I stamped the flourish on a True Black cut Labels 4 piece in white. I planned on using a silver ink pad, but it was all tried out :C. For my ornament I stamped it on white PTI cs in VersaMark and embossed it with Filigree silver embossing powder and it looked just wonderful. As you can see the ornament has these flourishes on it so my mind went into overdrive and I remembered that I bought some cool glitter a long time ago (and never used it) and it would give those flourishes some more interest. So I added some Quicky Glue pen and applied the glitter. Have a look and see for yourself


Elegant Merry Christmas






Recipe:


Paper: PTI White, True Black, silver paper I bought at Target during Christmas last year.




Stamps: Festive Season ISC



Ink: VersaMark, white opaque ink pad



Accessories: Cuttlebug Victoria embossing folder, Nesties Labels 4, white glitter, Recollections silver half pearls, narrow white satin ribbon, foam tape, 3D foam dots, double sided tape






What do you think? I think this is the card I will be making for Christmas for my Mom and family back in Germany ;D.

Since I forgot yesterday to give you all the the links to all of the newly released set I will do it today

Fruitful ( that was the card I showed you all on Friday ;D)

Joyful Christmas

Festive Season (which is used for the card I am showing you today)

Eclectic Christmas

Country Views (this is ideal for magnets, Tim Holtz fragments, Inchies!!!) (Hint, you'll be getting some free samples of the fragments if you purchase this set ;D;D)

Remember that ISC is still offering you

so all you have to do is enter the code isc1009 and you are in business for a great discount!!!

Since this is a Blog Hop I will remind you that if you have not done so, please go to the ISC blog and start there and work yourself through as all of the wonderful Architect have used the same stamps sheets but their creations are oh so different. I love it when I get to see the same set used by someone with a different style. It is pretty amazing!!! So here is the list

Innovative Stamps Creations Blog

Kathy aka KAT

Sabrina (that is ME :D:D)

Julie

Joanne

Connie

Wendy

and back to ISC Blog

remember you have until tomorrow Wednesday 14.October to leave a comment on the ISC Blog what Christmas means to you and your family to win 3 FREE Christmas stamps sets Joyful Christmas, Festive Season and Eclectic Christmas).

So, if you are on your track and you cam from Kathy all you have to do is click on the blinkie below and it will take you directly to Julie so you can admire her version of one of these wonderful sets

Wow, this was a long post, sorry, but I wanted to make sure I don't forget anything.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope that you enjoyed your visit.

Hugs,