LW Designs

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Cherry Vanilla Warmth & Wonder

In my last post I shared some cards almost exactly as I have today...only a different color scheme. Todays cards are probably considered more traditional Christmas colors compared to the Island Indigo used on the previous post.

As I told you in Tuesdays posting, I was inspired by a gorgeous card created by Sandy. The one above is closest to the inspiration card. I also did some with the deer embossed in gold, as shown in the middle card below.

Just to change things up and keep things super exciting (yes...I know, it doesn't take much to amuse me!) as I stamped a large batch of these babies, I also did some in Cherry Cobbler.

The only current DSP I had featuring predominately Crumb Cake was from the Season of Style Paper Stack, and I didn't feel it was elegant enough for this design, so I chose some from the Elegant Soirée DSP. Although it is now retired, you can still get it as a Digital Download.

Here's a close up of the two...

and a look at all twenty that I made.

I really cannot decide which one I like the most. Which color combo do you prefer?

Hope to be back soon...but I'm falling behind on Christmas shopping...still more to do, wrapping...not one gift wrapped yet! And to make matters worse...I'm still working on some gifts that I am making...and Christmas is less than a week away! Have a GREAT day!

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Warmth & Wonder With Some Winter Frost

We definitely have more winter frost this morning than we have warmth & wonder! We have super cold, single digit temps here and lots of snow! It sure does look beautiful though! Hopefully it will stay for Christmas (the snow not the single digit temps!) Today I would like to share one of the Christmas cards I sent out this year.

I was browsing on Pinterest one day and came across this gorgeous card created by Sandy. I didn't even own the Warmth & Wonder stamp set, but fell in love with the card and knew my dear Auntie would loan it to me...Thanks Aunt Roberta! I stamped the deer and embossed them in both silver & white. Here's a closer look...

I don't have the Chalk Talk set or framelits, which were used on the inspiration card, so I made due with what I had...the pretty swirl design from Happy Day embossed onto a Deco Label die cut. Here is another version with the deer embossed in white and sponged with Pool Party. (didn't photograph well)

I loved the pretty snowflake stamped back ground on the inspiration card, but since I was making several, I chose to emboss my background using the Beautifully Baroque EF to make it quicker. Here is a group of them before I mailed them out.