Winter Wishes

It's my turn to share my Pick of the Week on The House That Stamp Built blog today.  While I am scrolling around on Pinterest, I am always looking for card designs that catch my eye, and if I can recreate that look with Repeat Impressions stamps, even better.  The card that inspired me today is this one:

I just love the composition of the branches and pinecones and the sentiment on the tag.  So, I set about to recreate it using what I had in my stamp arsenal.

I began by stamping the "Pine Needle Sil." in a similar arrangement to my inspiration card.  Since my image is actually quite large, I ended up using a marker to color only half of the image and then stamped it on my panel.  I did second generation stamping in some places to get the softer feel.   Once I had that complete, I hand drew some berry stems.  As I was typing this, I realized it would have been a good idea to use nuvo drops for the berries as they then would have had dimension and shine.  But I also would have had to wait for them to dry . . .   This is what the panel looks like:

It looks like a hot mess right now, but don't worry, it will look awesome when I'm finished.  My youngest daughter was not really impressed with it at this point either, but once I put it all together she thought it looked a whole lot better!  LOL!!  I stamped my "Pinecone" image 3 times on scrap paper, colored them and fussy cut them out.  I die cut a sizzix label to use as my tag and stamped the "Christmas" sentiment on it using some masking to get it placed how I wanted.  Before adhering everything together, I brushed some brown ink around the edges of my stamped panel and the tag to tag away some of the whiteness.  I adhered a strip of scraps strips to the left hand edge of my card and layered on a copper glitter strip before adding my finished stamped panel.

I finished everything off with a little red button tied with brown and white striped twine.  So, take a look at your inspiration cards (you know you have them) and think about how you can recreate them using what you already have on hand (or maybe some Repeat Impressions stamps you have had your eye on!)

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Pine Needle sil.", "Christmas" and "Pinecone"

Dies: Sizzix freebie label

Challenges:

Cardz TV #129--anything goes

We Love Chocolate Baroque--anything goes

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #29--anything goes

Winter Wonderland--anything goes

Paper Funday #24--anything goes: Christmas/holiday

Crafty Creations #416--anything goes

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #392--anything goes with snippets (my striped panel was made from little leftover scraps, my pinecones were all stamped and cut from scraps as was the tag.  And the bit of gold glitter paper was trimmed from a scrap.)

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #147--anything goes

Incy Wincy--Christmas or Red/Green

Make My Monday #137--Christmas

Use Your Stuff #412--winter/snow/Christmas

Double Trouble #73--Die-lirious Holiday Season (Thing #1: favorite cutting tool--definitely my sizzix Big Shot; Thing #3: patterned paper and/or tie it up)

Penny's #486--anything goes

Creative Moment's #204--anything goes

Cute Card Thursday #664--anything goes

Krafty Chicks #537--Christmas

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #520--anything goes with the optional twist: use the word "Merry"