Sing Unto the Lord . . .from The Sweet Stop

CR84FN Color Challenge #49 this week is a beautiful combination. I decided to use a digital stamp from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and their sketch at The Sweet Stop to make this simple card. I absolutely love the font they used to showcase this beautiful verse.

5" x 5" card recipe:

Paper - CTMH Buttercup, Gray Wool, Gray Flannel, Kraft cardstock

Digital Stamp - Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps "Sing Unto the Lord" set

Cuttlebug "Allegra" embossing folder

Marvy Uchida pink and purple scalloped oval punches

Cricut "Hannah Montana" music symbols

Sweet n Sassy Sketch 146 - Singing Cardinal

I discovered that you can buy digital stamps, including Scripture sentiments, at Sweet n Sassy Stamps. Here's a card I made using one of their beautifully scripted sentiments.  I immediately thought of birds when I read this verse. I used their sketch for this week at their blog, The Sweet Stop, and the lovely color palette from Cards And Things Challenge #108.

The Sweet Stop challenge includes using punches or dies. I used a 2" scalloped circle punch for the sentiment, a 3" circle punch for the pink ladybug paper, and a Martha Stewart border punch. I didn't have the colors of paper with the same names as they used at Cards & Things, but I used what I thought they looked like on my computer screen. The green I used has three different tints of that color on the patterned paper, from the dark green to almost yellow. I hope that's OK.

6.5" x 5" Card Recipe:

Paper - Basic Grey "Lemonade;" Close To My Heart Baby Pink, White Daisy, Hollyhock Cardstock

Stamp - CTMH "Harmony" (cardinal); Sweet n Sassy Stamps "Sing unto the Lord" (digital)

Ink - CTMH Hollyhock

Other - Cuttlebug "Swiss Dots" and "Allegro" embossing folders; CTMH black and yellow watercolor pencils; Offray ribbon, pop dots

Oh, Tannenbaum

The snow we were supposed to get last night and this morning didn't make it this far south. It missed us by about 15 miles, but I know the day will soon be here. I wanted to make this card snowy for Christmas, so I used a Cuttlebug folder that has a snowy swirl and some white pigment ink to highlight it. This particular folder has a design that's raised more than some of my other folders, so it's easy to just rub the stamp pad directely across the raised portion. Because it's a pigment ink it takes longer to dry, so I used a heat gun so I wouldn't smear it. I also used Swiss Dots embossing folder on the white square to look like snow.

 I wondered what I could do with my polar bear that was obviously standing upright. This CTMH "Tannenbaum" stamp was just right since it was a little whimsical. I used papers from the Believe paper pack along with some Breeze and Kraft cardstock.

I used the color combination from the colourQ challenge for this week, cQc114 and the sketch from The Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge Blog,  #137. Great combination for a wintery Christmas card.