MIM #121; MM #67; NBUS #9 ~ Colored Vellum Christmas

Surprise!

 

I had a little extra time to make a card which I can schedule for a Saturday delivery! 

 

On Make It Monday (MIM), hosted by the talented Nichole Heady, we were treated to a wonderful video by Betsy Veldman on creating colored vellum flowers.  You will love this video and the stunning card Betsy created with an open lattice front.  WOW!  I love the look of vellum and the fun of coloring on vellum, so I was anxious to play along.

 

The thing was, I also wanted to play in the Merry Monday challenge this week, where the extraordinary Lesley presented one of the coolest sketches ever!

The movement on this sketch is sOoOo fun!

This is my first year making Christmas cards this early in the year and participating in Merry Monday and even at that, I'm still starting six months later than I had hoped.  I used to think, nah, can't do it, can't make Christmas cards in the summer.  But then at the end of last year, after making nothing but Christmas cards for weeks on end, I decided to change it up this year.  Making them all during the year, when it's not "expected" is heckamaze fun actually!  There's no pressure.

 

I checked my Christmas stamps and was surprised that I don't have a pointed setia plant stamp.  That would have made a perfect colored vellum Christmas flower, ahem, but since I don't have one, I chose to make a colored vellum holly wreath.  It's not prezactly a flower, but it is a plant ...

I heat embossed the image in white on vellum and die-cut the circle.  I colored it with markers and added MS red glitter to the bow.  I die-cut the red circle and glued the vellum to it, just around the edge, and then gluing that, just around the edge, I attached it to the card front.  Then out popped the weasel. 

We are sposed to use at least one Papertrey Ink product in the MIM challenges and today only one is what I used ~ the "pinefeather" ink.  The sediment placement differs from the sketch, but it fit just perfectly in the slope of the sparkly red snow-covered hill.

This card is so Christmas bright!  If I had nothing but time, I would make one for everyone because IRL, children, this card is a love song to the world!!

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Our newest friend to join our cray-azy journey is Ms. Julie Ann Lee of Magpie Heaven.  Julie Ann is very new to Blogstown and she would love it so much if you would pop over for a visit.  Thank you, Julie Ann, and welcome to this fun, addicting, and warm community!!

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Paper:  Unknown heather gray;

  SU! sparkly paper; white vellum

Stamp:  Technique Tuesday, NBUS "Joy to the

  World" from "Jingle All The Way"

Ink:  PTI pinefeather: Imprintz EP; SU! markers;

  Martha Stewart glitter glue

Die:  Spellbinders Classic Circle

Bling from stash

Corner Chomper

 

P.S.  I'll be tallying the results from my printer survey (end of that post) the first part of next week, so if you haven't joined in, please leave me a comment this weekend!  Thank you!  Mwah!