Thursday, October 25, 2012

Papertrey Ink October Blog Hop


This month’s Papertrey Ink Blog Hop challenge is all about non-traditional holiday color schemes. Since I don’t celebrate Christmas and therefore, don’t send out Christmas-specific cards during the holiday season, most of my holiday cards use a non-traditional color scheme and I always love trying out new ones.

For my project today, I went with the blue/green color combination—one of my favorites! I made this super simple snowflake card using 4 different inks and different sized snowflake stamps from the Rustic Snowflakes set. I stamped the images across the panel, mixing up the sizes and colors as I went along. The center of each flake is dotted with an iridescent crystal for a little sparkle.

The panel is edged with a strip of silver paper and a strip of dotted Aqua Mist paper, then adhered to an Aqua Mist card base. I went with Aqua Mist since it’s light enough to write on directly without adding a white or other light cardstock layer—important to consider when making holiday cards!

The “holiday cheer” sentiment from the Holiday Tree set is stamped in Simply Chartreuse ink on a piece of a Simply Chartreuse double-ended banner die strip. I fished out a scrap of Aqua Mist twill from my scrap pile to accent it, but I could easily switch this out for any of the other colors used to fit the supplies I have on hand. I might just keep this design in mind for my holiday cards this year . . .

Materials Used:
Rustic Snowflakes and Holiday Tree stamp sets, New Leaf, Simply Chartreuse, Hawaiian Shores, and Aqua Mist cardstock, Aqua Mist patterned paper, double-ended banner die, Aqua Mist twill (Papertrey Ink); silver paper, iridescent crystals (Michaels)

19 comments:

  1. Lori this is so pretty! I love the bling you added in there!

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  2. so simple & pretty! really like the sentiment on the banner flag...it really makes it "pop" :)

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  3. this is so pretty! I love the color combo for those snowflakes! :)

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  4. So pretty! I love the rhinestone accents!

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  5. Beautiful card Lori, loving the bling!

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  6. Love the bejewelled snowflakes! Pretty, pretty, pretty!

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  7. Beautiful card and pretty snowflakes, love the bling.

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  8. Lori, this is so pretty! You and I chose the same color combo. :)

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  9. Such a pretty card. Those snowflakes are really gorgeous, and all your finishing touches just add that much more.

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  10. Wow! Love this card, Lori! So pretty!

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  11. Perfectly placed show flakes. Sweet card.

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  12. Lori, LOVE the snowflakes in the various colors with the gems! Fab card!

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  13. Really pretty card. Love the colors you chose.

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  14. Lovely card. Very colorful snowflakes. Love the bitty ribbon too!

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  15. Love your design - the little ribbon bow is a lovely extra detail!

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  16. This looks so great! I love the simple design and the way you stamped your snowflakes in a variety of colours - it looks so pretty!!

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  17. love your coloured snowflakes with gem centres

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