Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Freshly Made Sketches 512

I'm excited to share our newest challenge at Freshly Made Sketches with you!  Our hostess this week is Kim and her design gave me the perfect opportunity to challenge myself with an unusual color combo for a Christmas card.



The color challenge at The Paper Players is so pretty so I challenged myself to create a Christmas card with it.  It would have been easy to incorporate the black with the sentiment but I wanted to see if I could pull it off using some sparkly black paper.  So I used said sparkly paper for the stripes, stamped a tiny sentiment in between them, and added a layered snowflake which I die cut in silver sparkly paper and white.  To finish off the snowflakes I put a little bit of white Nuvo drops in the center.  I love how it turned out!



Thanks for stopping by!  My fellow Freshly Made Sketches teammates have made some fabulous card with this sketch so be sure to check them out!

Supplies
Stamps:  Pure Florals Poinsettia (Uniko)
Paper:  Soft Stone (Papertrey Ink); Solar White (Neenah); black glimmer, silver glimmer (Recollections)
Ink:  Onyx Black (Versafine)
Accessories:  Rylynn Snowflake die (Simon Says Stamp); Let it Snowflake Too die (My Favorite Things); Gloss White Nuvo Drops

12 comments:

Lisa Elton said...

Love the simplicity of this, Jen! That layered snowflake speaks volumes!

Linda Callahan said...

Very elegant for the holidays!

Joanne James - The Crafty Owl said...

Keen this is fabulous! So simple yet so beautiful. I love that you challenged yourself with that sparkly black glimmer paper too- it adds a real wow to your CAS card. Thanks for playing along with my colour challenge over at The Paper Players this week!

Joanne James - The Crafty Owl said...

Sorry that last comment should have started with 'Jen' - I didn't catch the auto correct in time, apologies!

Amanda Mertz said...

You rocked these colors! I love the CAS design with all the sparkle and the snowflake just pops! Thanks for sharing at The Paper Players!

LeAnne said...

You are the QUEEN of CAS, Jen, and this is perfectly done! LOVE the way you incorporated that sweet little sentiment and the snowflake is beautiful! Thanks for playing with the Players this week!

Jacquie Southas said...

Perfect CAS elegance, Jen!

Ann Schach said...

Clean and simple perfection, Jen! Your card is so elegant and classy, and shows off the challenge so well. Thank you for playing with The Paper Players this week!

Nora Noll said...

This is so pretty!! I love the snowflake you used!!

Jen Brum said...

Oh this is such a gorgeous card Jen! That snowflake is gorgeous and I love the black glimmer paper! It's so elegant and perfect for Christmas!

Karren said...

This is totally gorgeous! So very elegant and snowflakes for the win with this week's sketch :)

Kim S said...

It's so beautifully elegant!! I love the two subtle tones on the snowflake with the sparkle behind it!