ColourQ and Praying for You

I chose to use a turquoise color with black and white for a sympathy card. ColorQ Challenge #117 is to use Black, White and one other color. I used Lagoon and an older paper from Scenic Route. The design is from Clean and Simple Stamping. This truly was a simple card with clean lines and lots of "white space."

The card is 5" x 5." Black mat is 4" x 4" and the two rectangles are 3 7/8" x 1 7/8." The sentiment circle is 1 3/4" and it's mat is 2." The leaf stamp is 3rd generation lagoon ink. The black flower has a tiny pearl in the center.

Materials:
Paper - CTMH Colonial White and Black, Scenic Route "Sumner Parker Road"
Stamps - CTMH "Treasure Life" (leaves), sentiment retired
Ink - CTMH Lagoon, Black
Accessories - CTMH black ribbon collection, opaque pearl, Sizzix embossing folder

More Vintage Christmas

At Christmas, I prefer giving cards that keep the focus on Christ. These two cards came together so quickly. After finding free vintage Christmas cards/clipart earlier this week, I just had to make one more card using vintage clipart for the challenge at Little Red Wagon. The rules at Vintage Holiday Crafts say that you can't use more than five on a blog, so I'm still safe. 

I took Freshly Made Sketch 14 and lengthened it vertically to accomodate a rectangular picture instead of a square one. I used 4 rectangles from Basic Grey's "Curio."  The papers are heavily "inked" on the edges already so I cut the pieces from two corners for each design. I used some long-hoarded gold cardstock that CTMH used to sell to mat the vintage print. A simple poinsettia that has a gold-rimmed pearl brad in the center provided the one embellishment. Easy and simple!!

The next card was also easy. I saw Kaboodle Doodles Challenge today to use Christmas colors: red, green, gold, and white. I had a pad of the Paper Studio paper at hand with those colors and knew that the Clean and Simple Stamping Sketch would be great with those colors and 3 stars.

I tried to combine a rustic look of Kraft cardstock signifying Christ's humble birth with elegant gold embossing to show his glory. The inside verse is simple: Wise men still seek him. Merry Christmas.

I used stylus to emboss a line .25" from all four edges on front. I had made the middle star a little bigger on white paper embossed with gold, like the sentiment. I cut the stars on the Cricut with the Art Philosophy cartridge. The two side ones were 1.5" with a one inch star stacked on top. The middle star was cut at 1.75" to match the star in the stamp set "Love Life." It's too bad the design doesn't show up as well in the photo.The embossed sentiment comes from CTMH "Everlasting Life." I think I'll make more of these!!