Color Me Christmas

At Stampin' Up! Conventions each attendee receives a colored wristband, and you win a prize if your color is announced. My first two Conventions, nothing. but this year, in celebration of the 25th anniversary, every color was a winner! I won three products from the Holiday Catalog: the Color Me Christmas stamp set, Season of Style Designer Series Paper (DSP) and Frosted Finishes embellishments. Here are my first few projects with the stamp set and DSP.

Supplies (all Stampin' Up!):
Stamps: Color Me Christmas
Paper: Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler cardstock; Season of Style DSP; red glimmer paper
Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Baked Brown Sugar, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive
Accessories: Northern Flurry embossing folder, Ovals Collection Framelits dies, Cupcake Builder punch, Cherry Cobbler baker's twine, rhinestones, Glue Dots, Dimensionals

I love just about any reindeer stamps, so this little guy was the first image I used from my new set. Just basic stamping and coloring for the focal image, but I did have to give him a shiny red nose -- the little circles on the Cupcake Builder punch and red glimmer paper were the perfect combo. I used the Oval Collection Framelits dies to cut out the focal image and a mat and adhered both pieces over a strip of chevron DSP on an embossed background. I used two pieces of Cherry Cobbler baker's twine to tie a bow and adhered it to the bottom of the focal image with a Glue Dot.

Supplies (all Stampin' Up!):
Stamps: Color Me Christmas
Paper: Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake cardstock; Season of Style DSP
Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive
Accessories: Perfect Pennants die, paper-piercing tool, Cherry Cobbler baker's twine, Dimensionals, Mono Multi liquid glue

These 3" x 3" cards would be perfect to tuck into a gift bag or to use as a tag on a present. On the left card, the present is paper-pieced; I stamped the image on two different DSP patterns, cut apart the appropriate parts of each image and glued them together. On the right card I colored the image with markers and then cut it out. With Dimensionals I adhered both presents to scalloped circles cut out with the Perfect Pennants die (for the left card I used a paper piercer to add the holes in the scallops) and then adhered the circles to the card bases.

Supplies (all Stampin' Up!):
Stamps: Color Me Christmas
Paper: Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake cardstock; Season of Style DSP
Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Ovals Collection Framelits dies, Occasions Paper-Piercing pack, paper-piercing tool and mat, Cherry Cobbler seam binding ribbon, rhinestones, Dazzling Details, Dimensionals

The middle piece of DSP on this card is 3" wide, and each side piece is 1" wide. I die cut an oval from the middle of the large piece and pierced a border around the oval. (I was disappointed that the paper piercing isn't more noticeable, but the pattern on the DSP camouflages it.) I stamped, colored and cut out the focal image, added Dazzling Details to the ornaments and star, and adhered the tree in the cut-out oval. I like the layout of this card, but something seems off to me; I may have to make another version with different DSP patterns.

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