Sep 25 2007
I must be in a Christmas Mood… & a sketch design for you…
This is my second holiday themed post of the day! I’ll tell you what got me started on this one. Some more new Lizzie Anne Designs stamps arrived in the mail this morning! Yay! When I saw the Bashful Blue, Old Olive and More Mustard color combo, I just had to try and work it into a card design with these darling little snowmen.
Snowmen … A Color Challenge
It has been busy and I’m trying to catch up here so I just had time for a simple card…well, really, I didn’t but I took the time anyway! 
So….. for a quick design it is always great to start with a challenge…takes some of the thinking out. I knew to make this design work I needed to focus on the bashful blue, completment with the Olive and add just a tad of the Mustard for accent. Designs always work best this way…that old gallon, quart, pint rule.
My snowmen were stamped onto a scrap of whisper white cardstock and then colored in with my Copic Markers. So quick and easy. After matting the image with all three colors, I punched a 1 3/8″ circle from Old Olive and inserted a Karen Foster snowflake brad. A little scrap of blue striped ribbon was tied to the stem of the brad and knotted for a little flair.
For my background I quickly stamped it with the snow flurry stamp in Bashful Blue. The design still needed a little somethign to make it stand out. I trimmed a scrap of whisper white cardstock and ran it through my Cuttlebug with the snowflake embossing folder. I think this is my favorite embossing folder…just love it on white! Then I did something I rarely do…I turned my layer on an angle. I usually line things up very vertical and horizontal but I thought with this design, it would be fun to give it a little twist! Now you all know how much I love to add stitching to almost every design so I tried stitching the embossed panel…worked great! And yay! I’m ahead of the game this year with another Christmas card done! 
Sketch Challenge: Want to try out this sketch? You can enlarge it by clicking on it and are welcome to print it off. If you decide to try it out…add a comment below so I can check it out!
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Very cute design, Julia!! Love the stitched snowflake panel!!
Just LOVED this when I saw it on SCS. It’s so stinkin’ CUTE!
So cute…. Love the Cuttlebugged tilted background piece. Awesome card!
Cute card but I am like you-rarely angle a piece on a card-I will try your sketch and see how it turns out for me-always a first time. (grin)
Just adorable, J!!! Love that patch of white and the stitching! Such cute little snowmen! I love that image!
FUN fun FUN!!! -Anna.
Just love the snowflake embossing and snowflake w/ribbon! Those snowmen are too cute!
Oh, how cute! See, that’s why you’re adhesive :D. But I thank you for being one.
another adhesive
Aaack!! Totally adorable Julia!! And I LOVE this layout!!
What a cute card! I love this sketch!
Don’t snowflakes always fall at an angle? Thanks for the paint tip!
I love this!! Those snowmen are so cute! I love your different snowflake backgrounds, and the colors as well. (I just ordered this stamp from Lindsey…yay!)
This is just so darling!! LOVE the layout and sewing, LOVE IT!
What a GREAT card! Love it!
Cute, cute little snowmen, J!
Too CUTE!!
I love this
I can’t wait til I have my own Cuttlebug, just seeing everything people have created with a little help from that Cuttlebug makes me go all green! LOL But green in a very nice way of course! That little snowman stamp is just the sweetest!