Merry and Bright

Here’s a clean and simple holiday design for the current sketch at Retro Sketches. I used stamps from three different Papertrey Ink stamp sets to put this one together.

The snowflakes on the light blue panel come from the Snowfall and Snowfall Additions stamp sets. They’re stamped randomly over the panel in shimmery silver ink. I stamped the “merry and bright” from the Grand Ampersand set in navy ink on a piece of shimmery white cardstock and added that to the snowflake stamped panel, using a navy mat to set it off from the light blue.

The stamped panel is adhered to a navy panel along with a wide strip of shimmery silver paper. For more sparkle, I ran a narrow strip of double sided adhesive along the edge of the silver paper and covered it with glitter.  I matted the panel with the same silver paper, then adhered it to a navy card base.  I finished the design by adding clear crystals to the center of each snowflake, varying the sizes of the crystals to match the sizes of the snowflakes.

Materials Used:
Snowfall, Snowfall Additions, and Grand Ampersand stamp sets (Papertrey Ink); Night of Navy, Soft Sky, and Shimmery White cardstock, Dazzling Diamonds (Stampin’ Up!); Encore Silver ink (Tsukineko); silver paper (Target); clear crystals (Michaels)