Kitchen Sink Monday: With Bells On

Earlier this month, I bought a bunch of small silver bells, thinking they'd make a cute embellishment for a card or something like that. And, they've sat on my table since then, waiting for a project to come along. I decided I'd use them to embellish my project for this week's installment of Kitchen Sink Stamps Monday.

I started my card with a piece of patterned paper from a Memory Box pack. I don't usually do holiday cards in traditional colors and I really liked the soft sage/teal tones in this paper. For an elegant look, I embossed the word "joy" in silver, using the letters from the Snow Flurry stamp set.

I wrapped a piece of the wide teal satin ribbon from the Kitchen Sink Stamps store around the patterned paper, under the embossed letters. I must admit that one of the reasons I chose the patterned paper that I did was so that I could use this pretty ribbon on my project! I threaded a piece of silver ribbon through the knot, then threaded a piece of silver cord through, too. I tied a silver bell at each end of the cord.

The panel at the bottom of the card was created by gluing a bunch of different width scraps of cardstock in teal, sage, and cocoa to a white panel. The panel is layered on a silver panel just a bit larger than the patterned paper panel, then on a teal card base.

For more inspiration from the Kitchen, check out the rest of the Kitchen Sink Crew:

Angela Knopf
Dee Jackson
Julie Masse
Lynn McAuley
Maria Colosimo
Nicole Cooke
Tammy Hershberger

Materials Used:

Snow Flurry stamp set, teal satin ribbon (Kitchen Sink Stamps); Versamark, Taken with Teal, Close to Cocoa, and Sage Shadow cardstock, silver embossing powder, silver cord (Stampin' Up!); silver ribbon, silver bells (Michaels); patterned paper (Memory Box-Frost collection)