What do snowflakes and cake have in common? Hint: it's PaperTrey release day again! This month Nichole has released two stamp sets, Snowflake Serenade and Piece of Cake, and both are great fun to play with. My first Snowflake Serenade card above uses Pat Huntoon's double pocket fold, the October Technique Junkies online bonus technique. I used Cosmo Cricket's fabulous new Christmas line, Be Good, for my pocket and for the card mats. The "joy and wonder" sentiment is from one of last month's sets, Holiday Wishes. I used my new Spellbinder's Classic and Petite Scalloped Nestability circles to make the front medallion--I adore those tiny little scallops that barely peek out from behind an image! I used Sage Shadow and Cranberry Crisp inks, as well as Antique Linen distress ink on the Neenah Classic Cream card stock. Hardware is We R Memory Keepers Coppered Out hardware, which my buddy Trudee made me buy. . . I left space on the larger card to put a picture of our little boy or write a short note on. Ribbons and twill are both SU. This card made me happy because it makes me think of an old fashioned Christmas--back when the tree lights were big and ugly, and my grandmother's tree was silver. . . Ahhhh!
My second Snowflake Serenade card uses no patterned paper--just stamping. Card stock is Shimmery White and SU"s Soft Sky. Ink Colors are Soft Sky and Blue Bayou. I made a pattern with the medium and small snowflakes for backgrounds and used a bit of glue pad with Dazzling Diamonds glitter on the word "Peace" as well as on the main snowflake. The only other embellishments are the tiny blue pearls on the main snowflake, which is cut and matted with my Spellbinder's Classic and Petite Scalloped Nestability circles. (I couldn't believe how close the match was on the Soft Sky CS and the blue pearls!)
After all of that snow, we could use some cake. I love how Nichole made the flowers to drape effortlessly over the wedding cake! I also used that same flower stamp with the four groups of flowers to stamp my background; it's a great stamp for a quick and easy random look. I used SU's dog tag punch for my card front sentiment, and my Spellbinder's Classic and Petite Scalloped Nestability circles again for both the main image and the gift tag. The gift tag was a scrap that I was playing with stamping off the flowers on. When I started to throw it away, it occurred to me that I might be able to use it for something! Ribbon is SU's white taffeta, and flower centers are Ranger's perfect pearls. Inks are Clearsnap's Rouge and Versamagic's Thatched Straw and Tea Leaves. I used SU's Barely Banana on the Barely Banana background.
Finally, how about a bright, kid-appropriate cake card? Inks on this card are Versamagic Chalk inks: Turquoise Gem, Red Magic, Mango Madness, and Thatched Straw. Card stock colors are Rubber Soul's Marina and Tomato, as well as PaperTrey's Stamper's Select White. Tools used were the following: Spellbinder's Nestability Classic and Scalloped Square dies, Copic Airbrush System and C-1 marker, Spica lemon glitter pen, SU large oval punch, and Eclipse paper for masking the shadow for airbrushing. I struggled a bit with making this card work, but after I added that simple shadow, I was pleased with it. (Card size: 4-1/4" x 4-1/4")
I hope that you will go see the PaperTrey InkPad Gallery; you won't be disappointed!
