Frosty All Wrapped Up for Christmas

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 565 - Wrapping Up Christmas and for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 356 - Some people are worth melting for. Well my husband, daughters and grandkids certainly are worth melting for and Saturday they melted my heart with the joy on their faces as they opened their gifts. I spent less this year than I have in a long time but the faces still glowed with joy and excitement. Anyway, I love this darling snowman and have not had an opportunity to ink him up until today. I am still trying to work on my hills and snowbanks. Maybe one day I will get it rights. These turned out tooo dark to suit me. I added stickles to the base of the snowbanks and around the snowman for bling. I wrapped the ribbon around the pool party panel and tied a bow on the end. I colored the snowman with copics. On the front, inside and envelope I stamped in pool party. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Jolliest Time of the Year, Come to Bethlehem
Paper: white, pool party 
Ink: Pool Party, copics 
Techniques: copic coloring, bow, masking, snowbanks

Come To Bethlehem Feeling the Night Breeze

This is for Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 560 - Feeling the Night Breeze and gold for dessert. I was not exactly overly thrilled with my card for Tuesday and had this in mind after seeing Maura (aka beesmom)'s gorgeous creation and commenting that I saved it to favs for CASing rights. I CASEd her Silent Night card. I changed the orientation and used a scene rather than trees.
I stamped my image in night of navy then sponged above using a mask to simulate a snowbank, I used a small circle for the moon and sponged some baja breeze around the circle and then inked just the star and stamped it in the clear white area. I added stickles for bling. I dropped down and sponged with some baja breeze using a different mask. I stamped the Merry Christmas sentiment in night of navy on the front and envelope and the other sentiment on the inside in NON.

I stamped the image over the sentiment in baja breeze after stamping off once.  I took my daughter's advice and added some dimension to the navy background and I tied some gold cording and matted that on NON then on white cs base. I like this one much better and hope you do to. This is what happens at 1am when I can not sleep. I stamp. LOL.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Come to Bethlehem 
Paper: white, night of navy 
Ink: Baja Breeze, Night of Navy 
Accessories: stickles, cord cording, white jel pen 
Techniques: sponging, masking, reverse masking

Come To Bethlehem you Ombre'

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 550 - Punc-tu-a-tion, Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 559,  andTuesday'sCOLOR CHALLENGE # 549 - Whispering in the Silver Lagoon. Just could not resist another attempt at Ombre technique with this sketch and color challenge making a Christmas card. I stamped the image omitting the star in lost lagoon. I stamped the star in smoke slate a scrap of white, cut it out, popped it up then added some silver stickles.
I stamped the star on the envelope then on the inside over the sentiment that was stamped in lost lagoon without re-inking. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Come to Bethlehem 
Paper: white, lost lagoon, smokey slate gray 
Ink: Pool Party, Lost Lagoon, smokey slate 
Accessories: dimensionals, silver stickles, sponges 
Techniques: 3d, sponging, Ombre' 

Come To Bethlehem for Christmas

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 549 - Whispering in the Silver Lagoon with dessert of Christmas. My layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY'S SKETCH CHALLENGE # 416. I used my Maurvy Circle punches and adhered in pieces the nativity border scene. Stamped all sentiments in lost lagoon.

On the inside I stamped the image over the sentiment after stamping it on the envelope. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Come To Bethlemen
Paper: white, smokey slate gray, lost lagoon 
Ink: Lost Lagoon 
Accessories: Mauvry Circle Punches, Cottage Cutz Nativity Border 
Techniques: die cuts, stamping off

Come To Bethlehem with Embossed Edges

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 402 - Perfect White Night with glitter as a dessert. Easy Peasy. My glitter is around the edges for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 404 - Emboss the Edges.
My layout is from Saturday's WALTZING MOUSE SKETCH CHALLENGE # 124.
Can you tell I just got this gorgeous stamp set? I can not stop using it and avoided buying because I do NOT do well with silhouette images. I am determined to turn that around for the good. LOL. I embossed the edges of my focal white panel with some purple embossing powder. I added some glitter to the star. I doodled around the top left sentiment (no mistakes here just room for embellishments ;)
Now off to work with 1 more day to go.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Come To Bethlehem
Paper: white, night of navy, perfect plum
Ink: perfect plum, versa mark
Accessories: Nestability Oval, Purple EP, Glitter, dimensionals.
Techniques: 3D, heat embossed, dry embossed, embossed edges

Come to Bethlehem Embossed Edges

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 404 - Embossed Edges, for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 197 - Color Challenge. My layout is from today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 268. I used some perfect plum ink to stamp my image and sentiment. Pale Plum cs for the focal image cut with Fiskars circle template. Going Gray 1 in circle and crumb cake cs embossed with Cuttlebug Stars embossing folder. I used my perfect plum marker around all 4 edges of my white panel then embossed the edges using my versamark pen and glitter embossing powder.
Hope you like it and now I am off to work my 1st of only 3 days this week. Whoo Hoo.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Come To Bethlehem
Paper: white, perfect plum, pale plum, going gray, lavendar lace, crumb cake
Ink: pefect plum, versa mark
Accessories: fiskars circle template, circle punch, cuttlebug, Stars EF, glitter ep
Techniques: embossed edges

Bethlehem's Folded Christmas Tree

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 401 - Birds of a Feather, Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 411, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 401 - Tempting Green Pizzazz and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 403 - Folded Christmas Tree. I have had a blast with this weeks technique. I love these darling little "easy to make" trees.
I used some dp from my stash and the back side was white so I sprayed it with some copics to create a pear pizzazz colored background then stamped with gumball green the image from Background Basics that I dusted off, folded my tree then popped it up on vanilla cs and trimmed with some glitter on the edges (hope you can see it!). My treetopper is a dove punch from Martha Stewart. I stamped the sentiment from "Come to Bethlehem" in tempting turquoise. I used a piece of scrap for panels 2 and 3 and pear pizzazz for panel 4 all mounted on a vanilla base. Now off to work I go.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Come To Bethlehem, Background Basics - SU
Paper: vanilla, pear pizzazz, tempting turquoise
Ink: gumball green, tempting turquoise
Accessories: ribbon, Fiskar Circle template, glitter, Martha Stewart Dove punch, dimensionals, copic markers, copics ABS
Techniques: folded Christmas tree