Holiday Greetings and Sale Information

Here's my final holiday card of the season with wishes to you and your family for a joyous holiday season and a wonderful new year. Since I don't celebrate Christmas, I love finding fun non-traditional color combinations for holiday season cards. This patterned paper is so fun with its pretty shades of pink and a touch of green , too. It's been sitting on my stamp table waiting to use since I rescued it from Cosmo's mouth--he found it in a bag in the hallway and chomped off a corner. I guess I deserved that for not putting my stuff away. Fortunately, most of the paper was still intact and free of teeth marks, so I was able to put it to use.

The snowflake and sentiment images are from the Snow Flurry stamp set, available at Kitchen Sink Stamps. I stamped the large snowflake and sentiment with Regal Rose craft ink. The snowflake is heat embossed with Iridescent Ice embossing powder (which I managed to spill all over the ink pad--I guess I'll be trying to figure out how to salvage the pad after I finish this post . . .) and embellished with some Dew Drops (also from Kitchen Sink Stamps). I used one of my holiday gifts to myself--my new Nestabilities dies--to cut out the snowflake. These are so much fun to use and so easy, too.

Now that all the Christmas presents are opened, the post-Christmas sales are about to begin. If you're ready to do some shopping (asI always am!), I want to give you a heads-up about a one day special that will be going on at Kitchen Sink Stamps tomorrow (December 26). Maria will be offering a 15% discount on all purchases in the Kitchen Sink Store. To get the discount, enter the promotion code BOWS when prompted at the shopping cart. Happy shopping!

Materials Used:

Snow Flurry stamp set and Dew Drops (Kitchen Sink Stamps); patterned paper (Joyful Twinkle by KI Memories); Regal Rose Craft ink, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, and Whisper White cardstock, Iridescent Ice embossing powder, mat pack and paper piercing tool, silver cord, dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); rose grosgrain ribbon (Michaels dollar bin); circle and scalloped circle dies (Nestabilities)