A Christmas Greeting!

I was inspired to make this Christmas card using this beautiful sleigh from the Flourishes Sleigh Ride set.  I love this gorgeous set!  It also comes with a regal looking reindeer and some lovely sentiments.  A few other Christmas sets have caught my eye too from Flourishes! Hmm, If only money fell from the sky like snowflakes…I would own them all!!

I am so pleased with how this turned out.  I love making long, tall cards! This one will fit in a business size envelope.  I made this card with the Stamp Simply Challenge in mind which was to make a flat card, with no lumps or bumps for NO EXTRA Postage…well, the card is flat, there are no bows, brads, eyelets or primas etc, (layers are o.k. ) BUT, I realized after I had made it, that the long/tall aspect of the card might just require extra postage!! OOPS! I’m actually not sure, do any of you know?  If you do can you tell me, because I find the whole postage issue quite confusing! I wish I could just have prepaid envelopes, of all sizes…wouldn’t that make things easier?  🙂

Here’s a close up of the sleigh. I stamped it with gold pigment ink, then embossed it with red tinsel embossing powder.  What a wonderful sparkle this gave it! And I love how you can still see some of the gold in between the red tinsel.

Stamps: Flourishes Sleigh Ride,
Paper: Whisper White, Bazzil Red, green
Ink: gold pigment ink
Accessories: Red Tinsel ep, heat tool, Twinkling H2O’s, cuttlebug, snowflakes folder, Martha Stewart border punch, Scor-Pal
Techniques: dry embossing, heat embossing, watercoloring, scoring

I’ve also entered this into the Flourishes Featured Stamper challenge for the week.  I hope you all like it!

Thanks for stopping by!  It’s a cold rainy day here, a great kind of day to grab a cup of your favourite hot drink and take some time to look around.  I hope you find something that inspires your creativity.