Hello friends! Since it’s still so very warm outside, I thought it would be fun to do a bit of coloring which I haven’t really done much of lately and create another Christmas card in July! Hope you are staying cool…or warm depending on where you live! LOL
A cup of cocoa with marshmallows, a candy cane and a chocolate cupcake with a gingerbread friend to share it with sounds wonderful to me! You may recognize the image from Digi Doodle Studios, which is where this retired image is from called “Jacks Ginger Cocoa Mug“. It was just nice to be able to spend time coloring up a cute image and enjoy more from my long-forgotten stash! I’ve used Copics to color the image and cut it out with my square dies to layer for my card design.
I thought the brown gingham papers went well with the cardstock that I’ve used from Stampin’ Up! called Baked Brown Sugar. I wanted to also bring in some red to the design because of the candy canes/peppermints in the image. I layered a piece of lace ribbon over it and then popped up the layered colored image on top. I used a photo corner punch for redder in the right top corner of the image.
The sentiment was white heat embossed over the Baked Brown Sugar cardstock and cut out with a stitched banner die. The sentiment is also from a retired Pink & Main stamp set I had in my stash. Lastly, I added some round peppermint clay accents to finish it off.
Hope you’ve enjoyed my Christmas card today or have been inspired for Christmas..or food! Thanks for stopping by!
Challenges I’d like to enter:
- Christmas Kickstart – Gingerbread Treats
- Rudolph Days Challenge – Anything Goes Christmas (June)
- Merry Little Christmas – Anything Goes Christmas
- Crafter’s Cafe – Christmas in July
- Double D – Christmas in July
- Creative Knockouts – Christmas in July
- Crafty Catz – Anything Goes with optional Christmas in July
Stamped Smiles 