Peace on Earth

Happy Wednesday!  It's time for another challenge from the House That Stamps Built!  This week we have a beautiful inspiration photo to inspire you:

I've been in a Christmas card making mood lately (or rather, feeling like I need to get some Christmas cards made!), and I love Christmas, so I decided to use mostly the color combo but also a little bit of the scene to create this Christmas card:

I started out by stamping the ornament on a piece of scrap white card stock, then I heat embossed the star with white embossing powder.  I masked the ornament topper and sponged on some inks to create the scene.  I added the rays and little stars with a white gel pen and colored the topper with a silver sharpie, then fussy cut out the entire ornament.  For the card base, I actually started out with a piece of light blue patterned paper as I didn't want to have to sponge the entire panel.  Then I sponged on some teal ink and a little bit of navy.  I decided I wanted to have my ornament hanging from a tree, so I stamped the pine bow image several times in the corner, placed my ornament and added a little hanger and bow out of DMC floss. (As an aside, my girls and I have been working on making friendship bracelets, so several of my boxes of floss were already out, which is what made me think of using it.)  I finished everything off by stamping my sentiment and adding the silver star and a few silver sequins.  It's quite simple, but I am very pleased with how it turned out.
Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the House blog to see the rest of the DT's creations and then get inky and play along with us.  And if you need any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your ENTIRE order coupon code over in my left sidebar.

Supplies:
Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Ornament Frame", "Shepherd Boy" I used only the star, "PEACE", and "Pine Branch"
Dies: MFT "Blueprints 13" small star

Challenges:
The Merry Christmas Challenge--anything goes
Christmas at Sweet Stampin'--anything goes
Love To Craft Challenge Blog #25--anything goes
Sheep Ski Designs #17--your favorite things (Christmas and blue!!)
Dare 2B Artzy--anything goes
ABC Christmas--P is for plain
Creative Inspirations--holidays
Penny Black--I spy something beginning with "B" (I have a Bow and pine Boughs)
CAS Christmas--tree (I have the branches of a tree, hope that counts)
Creates and Makes #23--anything goes
Merry Little Christmas--anything goes
Crimbo-Crackers #169--anything goes
Word Art Wednesday #347--anything goes with uplifting sentiment
C.R.A.F.T. #479--Christmas
CAS(E) This Sketch #284--sketch

Fussy and Fancy #218--CAS
Cardz TV #60--anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #398--anything goes with the optional twist: for a lady or girl (I did not use the twist)
Sweet Stampin--Christmas
Crafty Friends--anything goes