A Jillian Vance Design: Silver and Blue Christmas...

Well... hello and happy Thursday everyone! Rosemary here and yes... usually I post on Wednesday, but for just this week I'm showing up on Thursday! I have a slimline card to share today that as you can see from my blog post title is done in silver and blue! I used one of the new Holiday Scripty Greetings and the poinsettia image from the Elegant Christmas stamp set.

A few weeks ago I posted a card on my blog (see it here) where I stamped, colored and die cut an image from the Dear Daisy stamp set and then used the images to frame up my sentiment. I really liked how that card turned out and was going to do the same thing with this card, but I sort of ran out of steam when it came to coloring the images. So I decided to use patterned paper instead. I stamped all the images on some patterned paper from American Crafts (I had previously used this paper on a cards with a similar look) with watermark ink and then heat embossed them in silver. I die cut all the images with a die that I have from a previously released set from AJVD that matches the poinsettia image perfectly. I used some silver textured cardstock to die cut the Slimline Stitched Plaid cover die and then adhered that to light blue cardstock. Then I got to work adding all my poinsettias to the card front. Some were adhered flush with Just Glue It adhesive and others were popped up with foam dots. I then trimmed off the overhanging parts. The Merry Christmas was die cut from the same textured silver cardstock several times, adhered together and then adhered to the shadow backing that I die cut from heavy weight vellum. That was then adhered in the center. I finished off the card with lots of little jewels in silver, light blue and dark blue. Going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of Christmas!

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