Winter Post Christmas Card Variations

Felt like playing a little tonight after a stressful week. I inked up this skating couple image from Stampin Up with Staz On Timber Brown ink and stamped a half sheet of kraft cardstock. I played around with them and made a couple cards. First I colored them with my SU Pastel chalks. I liked the chalk for this because it showed up nicely on the Kraft cardstock and had a very soft appearance I was looking for. I was initially thinking going vintage. So to accomplish that on the red card, I wanted to make one of those paper flowers. I punched out some of the sheet music paper and used my own "glimmer mist" concoction (a travel-sized bottle of Dove liquid hairspray and Pearl Ex powder. It is an oldie technique but a goodie). The background on the red card was made with the Petals-a-Plenty embossing folder from the SU catalog. I rubbed the Timber Brown Staz On pad over the embossed areas and then sprayed the Pearl Ex mixture over it. The sheet music is a vintage download from The Vintage Workshop that I just printed on plan printer paper and distressed and sprayed, The flower is made with the "sheet music" that used a 5-petal flower paper punch and crumpled and sprayed with the Pearl Ex mixture.

On the second card, I went with a little more clean lines. I used Bashful Blue and Chocolate Chip cardstock. I only embossed the corner of the blue cardstock with teh Petals-a-Plenty folder and added some pearl stickers. The image is adhered with foam layering dots. The sentiment is from the SU Heard from the Heart set inked with StazOn Timber Brown ink. I added the ribbon and the scallop lace punched border to soften the edges a little.