Celebrate

***Scroll down to the post below for my card for this week's Color Throwdown.***

Here's my card for this week's SCS sketch challenge. It's a quick one with the patterned paper doing most of the work.

I flipped the sketch to a vertical orientation and used a die cut tag for my focal image panel instead of a regular rectangle. The tag shape is cut from kraft cardstock. I stamped the snowflake image from the Icons I set from Clear and Simple Stamps on a kraft scrap and cut it out, then set it on the tag with foam tape, dotting the center with a pearl. One of the "celebrate" sentiments from the Limited Edition Let's Celebrate set is stamped under the flake in brown ink.

After knotting a piece of cream satin ribbon through the tag, I set it on the cardfront. The panels are made from two different papers from Echo Park's Season's Greetings line, plus a coordinating solid red cardstock strip. The red snowflake paper was the inspiration for the red snowflake icon on the tag layer. They're layered on kraft mats and set on a cream cardfront so it will be easy to write a message inside.

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Materials Used:
Icons I, Tag Lines and Let's Celebrate stamp sets, Haute Red Couture, On the Catwalk Cream, and Dish All the Dirt Brown inks, Dare to Be a Diva Red, Kraft Like a Rockstar, and On the Catwalk Cream cardstock, On the Catwalk Cream satin ribbon, Tags 1 die (Clear and Simple Stamps); Season's Greetings collection (Echo Park); pearl (Recollections); foam tape