With the new August-December Mini catalogue here I’m slowly starting to dip my toes into crafting for the upcoming holidays. I know for some people it can never come too early, but I’m still enjoying summer and so I’m not quite ready to start thinking about snow just yet. In the meantime I’ve got two team card swaps on the go using products from the new catalogue so that’s definitely helping me get into the spirit. This card is for my smaller team swap, so you’ll have to stay tuned to see what I have in store for my larger team card swap.
I’m absolutely loving the Poinsettia Petals stamp set from the new catalogue and so that was where I started for this card. Next I decided to add in some of the Feels Like Frost 6×6 Designer Series Paper that’s made a come back and that’s where the idea to heat emboss my cards came in. I loved the idea of the silver embossed poinsettias playing off of the DSP.
I also enjoy using less than conventional holiday colours with my projects, although blue I don’t think would be considered that unconventional. I picked Seaside Spray for the card base, ink colour for my phrase and of course the metallic ribbon (another of my favourites that Stampin’ Up! carried over).
The Seaside Spray and silver from the heat embossing and DSP look so great together! Metallics are a great way to add another colour to a project when you’re not sure what to use. Neutral colours are nice like that.
Here’s the full card…
Once I’ve got all my swaps I’ll be sure to share some of my favourites here. So make sure to keep checking back in!