December 15th Weekly Post

 Happy Sunday!

Hope all is well in your world.

The ceiling work went very well and I did some things to my desktop to make it work better.

So the week turned out great for me!

The new theme at SPA is Reindeer, hosted by Anne.

I wanted to use the Artistic Outpost Midwinter stamp set because it has a reindeer I've never inked up. I started with a 4x6 white card. I stamped and heat-embossed the reindeer using Versafine Clair ink and clear ep. Then I cut a mask for the reindeer, applied it and a mask for the hill/ground, then ink-blended the sky with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. I placed a Memory Box Flurry Frame snowflake stencil over the card and stenciled using Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink. After that dried, I trimmed it down to layer onto a piece of 4x6 brown card. Then I added phrase stickers from Tim's Christmas Sticker Book, outlined them with a brown pencil and done!

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And I have the final Christmas cards I haven't yet shared.

First one: some glitter foam tree and star stickers, 3 Gecko Galz collage sheet images, some yellow paper scraps and DCWV patterned paper on a white card base, plus a little outlining with Stickles and metallic gel pen. I've had those foam trees at least 10 years and I was shocked they are still good!

And the Splitcoaststampers sketch I used.

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And second card: I used a print of the little Art Impressions stamped and colored scene I created last year and placed it behind a Sizzix /Tim window frame cut out of kraft card. The designer paper is from my stash scraps and the poinsettia bouquet is an Echo Park sticker. I added a Papertrey Ink sentiment stamped on a tan paper scrap and cut it to fit the window box. This card was an unexpected last-minute one and everything I used was in my scraps box of leftovers from previous projects. So I thought it turned out pretty well, considering. 

And the Splitcoaststampers sketch I used.

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Well, that is all from me today.

Thanks for the visit and have a wonderful final week before Christmas week.

Please don't stress, it'll be what it'll be, right?

Just breathe and enjoy.

XOX