Sneak Peek Day 2: "Winter Wonderland" and "Snow Much Fun"

Welcome back to our second day of our previews! First off we have the new StampTV kit "Winter Wonderland". This card was inspired by the colored papers included in this kit: Pure Luxury Little Boy Blue, Wine with Everything, Cranberry Tart, Ocean Mist, Kraft, White, Ivory, Black, and Chocolate, a fun mix or traditional and nontraditional holiday colors with endless combinations! When I read that list a really beautiful four color combo popped out at me, so I grabbed my Pure Luxury papers and coordinating inks and stamped up my own snowflake background.

I started with a piece of WHITE Pure Luxury and stamped these 4 different snowflake images from the kit in brown, cranberry, aqua and blue. I love collage stamping with snowflakes, they are so handy and make the most dainty and beautiful patterns! Then I rubbed Antique Linen and Vintage Photo Distressing Inks around the edges and a few areas in the middle, blending them til the paper had this beautiful, glowing patina. I stamped the sides with "In Stitches" and matted onto Cranberry Tart. Love this mix of warm and cool, light and dark colors together! TIP: Starting with white mat instead of ivory will keep the colors of your stamped images looking true, and even after your sponging turns the majority of the paper yellow with these inks, the white is going to be brighter in places than the ivory would and give more contrast.
Well, I'm in a "more is more" mood today, in case you can't tell! Christmas is coming, bling it up, pile it on! I found a little scrap of Basic Grey with this beautiful aqua and cranberry paisley print on it to liven things up. The sentiment is stamped in brown and cranberry onto more white cardstock Cuttlebugged with Snowflakes and sponged with the same distressing inks.
I stamped the smaller snowflakes in Timber Brown Staz-On onto the Pure Luxury buttons to frame the mats and then added a few little adhesive rhinestones. Whew! Creating this card felt like trimming the tree a few weeks early! :) You will love this kit!

My next card uses Gina's " Snow Much Fun". When I saw all these adorable snowmen and houses and trees and this sentiment "The good thing about snow is that it makes you yard look as good as your neighbors" (hee!) I felt a shaped card coming on! It's a shaped trifold, and fits into an A2 envelope, check it out!
And here it is unfolded! Two snow covered lawns on the hill, two snowbuddies waving at each other, what could be cuter? (Wish I could have gotten better pics it was really difficult to get the whole card in the pic, as well as get both the images and the front AND back in focus!)

First cut a piece of white cs 5 1/2" x 11. Place on the Scor-Buddy and score on both sides at the arrow, like you are making a trifold brochure.

But instead of folding the ends over each other, you make a mountain and valley fold so it looks like a Z.

Cut the tops at curves so it will make its way up the hill as you open it.

Sponge the curves with aqua ink.

Stamp, color and cut out two snowmen, two houses and two trees.

Adhere one snowman and house to the front fold, one tree behind them, then the second house and snowman on the front of the third panel at the top that will be facing you with the second tree top behind. You won't see the bottoms of either of these trees when the card is open. Be sure the top tree is even with or just below the top right corner so it fits in your A2 envelope, this keep sit at 5 1/2" tall. The snowmen can stick out the sides slightly because when folded into thirds, the card base is only about 3 3/4" wide.

Just add snowflakes and that feisty little greeting to the middle panel and you're done! :)
Please see more samples of these two new sets from the rest of our fabulous team!
Gina K

Cathy Tidwell

Carolyn King

Emily Giovanni

Lee Murphy

Theresa Momber

See you back here tomorrow for our third and final day of previews, thanks for visiting!