Spotlighting...

Tonight I decided to try my hand at the spotlight technique. Picking of course my new set from the holiday min from Stampin Up Holy Triptych.
Supplies for this card can be found here.

I wanted to spotlight baby Jesus in this card. So I stamped the image twice and colored one with my watercolor crayons and my aquapainter. Then I took my 1.25 circle punch and punched out the baby Jesus out then took my 1 3/8 circle punch to punch out a circle from a piece of scrap brushed silver cardstock. Then I lined the circles up to the uncolored image.



I am happy with it but it was hard to find the perfect sentiment to fit the card. I took the sentiment from a retired stamp set called Peace Be unto You. I am still not quite happy but i know I will find the perfect sentiment for this here soon. I think this would make a perfect Christmas card for someone this year. Well off to bed I go so I can get the kids off to school in the morning have a great night.

New stuff....

Well back a few weeks ago I got a Sizzix die cutter... well last week sizzix.com was having a thanksgiving sale. Everything they had in stock was 50% off. Well when you buy from them your order is a minimum of $25. I did the minimum and got four new die cuts and two embossing folders. I love the embossing folders. One of them I got was a set of deer running... I took this one out tonight to make a cute Christmas card. I used shimmery white card stock, brushed gold card stock, and black card stock. I used my A Merry Little Christmas stamp set from Stampin Up's holiday mini and watercolored the image with my Watercolor crayons and my aquapen. The deer look perfect blow the image.

I found the bow and bell at walmart and thought it was such a cute charm. After playing with the embossing folders I want more of them.... dry embossing has never been so easy.