Icy Christmas Ornaments

This week I had read through all of the Christmas challenges to see what I should make and as I created, I eventually realized I had combined five challenges for a change. The Jingle Belles challenged us to emboss so I planned on using both dry and heat embossing. This lovely photo at Winter Wonderland was my inspiration for heat embossing some ornaments in shades of purple and silver.

After I embossed three ornaments and cut them out, I looked for an appropriate sketch. The best sketch was actually the one from 52 Christmas Card Throwdown this week, although I flipped it vertically.

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge was to use stripes, so I selected a remnant of some My Mind's Eye paper from several years ago that went well with the purple and snow theme. The last challenge was ABC Christmas Challenge - I for Icy. Besides embossing three of the papers with different Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folders, I stamped icy drips with Versamark and embossed with silver powder, cut them out, attached portions in three places the way icicles form, and covered them with glitter gel. My thanks goes out to all of the lovely ladies who inspired my card with their challenge ideas and artwork!

Challenges:
Jingle Belles - Embossing around the Christmas tree
Winter Wonderland - photo inspiration (used pruple colors, ornaments, overlapping, and silver)
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Sketch 5
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #71 - Stripes
ABC Christmas Challenge - I for Icy

6.5" x 5" Christmas Card Recipe:
Paper - My Mind's Eye; Close To My Heart Petal, Colonial White, Plum Mist, and Smoky Plum cardstocks
Stamps - Close To My Heart  Tannenbaum (sentiment), Holiday Trinkets, Adorn-able (ornaments), (wooden ornament stamp from LSS unknown)
Ink - Versamark,  Pansy Purple
Other - CTMH Pansy Purple and Silver embossing powders, Glitz glitter gel; Cuttlebug Snow Dots embossing folder and two others unknown, silver cord and ribbon from Michaels

Jingle Stickers for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown

Both the Jingle Belles Challenge and the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown this week requested the use of Stickers or Rub-ons. I was sick all day and couldn't do much searching, but I can't stand to go an entire day without making something. So simple Christmas it is.

Every year when Close To My Heart comes out with new Christmas stickers I use them all on scrapbook layouts, but I did manage to find a sheet of Level 1 Stickers I'd never used. Most of them seemed better for scrapbooking, but I managed to find a wonderful sentiment and a small border strip that matched some of the Jingle paper that I have in abundance.

My favorite thing to do with stickers in scrapbooking is to pop dot them for more dimension. I also like to add something, so in this case I added some Pearl white Lumiere dots for both dimension and shine. I added them where there were already circles in the design. I also cut a second set of red and white gifts and bows from a second piece of the paper and pop dotted them over their matching set in the background paper. I never cared much for that paper because it was too busy for my tastes, but by using a 4.5" square of it and adding dimension, even the red bow on top of the background bow, it gives the paper more interest.  Thank you ladies for the challenge to use stickers. (Now I need to find the rest of mine when I get better!)