Hello there! Glad to see you again. Or for the first time! The Artisan Design Team is doing another blog hop featuring the Carols of Christmas bundle, cuz you need more ideas for this amazing duo of products, right! 😉 Seriously, this bundle is packed with versatility! This set is in the 2017 Holiday Mini, but has been released a month early for customers. (As a perk of being a demonstrator, we could get them in July!) I know how hard it is to wait for the new stuff to come, so it is a special treat when Stampin' Up! does an early release of a bundle like this.
What is the Artisan Design Team? We are a group of 20 Stampin' Up! demonstrators from around the globe,
handpicked by Stampin' Up! to bring you inspiration and projects with
the latest and greatest supplies.
If you are hopping along in order, then you just arrived from Germany, and the delightful
Sylwia Schreck's blog. Sigh, so pretty!
For this hop, I am focusing on the Deck the Halls sentiment. And here I add the Sheet Music background stamp and the Cable Knit embossing folder. I snuck some pine bough die cuts from Pretty Pines famelits in too. They perfectly with this stamp set 😊
The sentiment is inked up in Lemon Lime Twist, then Old olive is sponged onto the stamp before the stamp is put to paper. This creates a nice gradient effect without a lot of work.
I brought the Sheet Music to the inside also, partially stamping in stamped off Smoky Slate. I wanted it to be very subtle.
Next I needed to play with the Sponge and Spritz technique that I have been enjoying so much lately. Again with Old Olive and Lemon Lime Twist, and the Sheet Music background stamp.
Last up, I stamped the ornaments on a strip of the ombre Old Olive DSP from the Color Theory stack. There are several generations of Old Olive stamping here as I did not reink the stamps as I went down the paper. The embossing folder I used is the Holly folder. The sentiment is again inked in Lemon Lime Twist, Old Olive is sponged on the bottom word, then a Basic Black marker is used to ink the center word and graphics before stamping. Then the detail stamps were added in Basic Black also.
All three together! Don't they look wonderful together? I think this would make a great class for intermediate stampers.
That's it for me. Started with Allison? Then I am the last stop! Hope you found tons of great ideas you can use with this bundle, or other stamps in your stash. Didn't start with Allison? Well, keep clicking, my friend!
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