Christmas Trio!!!

I have been making a few cards the last few days. I decided to go with my SC147 first. I used Night Of Navy for matting and Bordering Blue for the image stamping.
I decided I definately was not going to use the cuttlebug tonight. I Embossed alot the base and secondary layer I embossed with clear embossing powder the top i embossed with SIlver embossing powder, because I wanted a few more silver embellishments. I followed the SC147 sketch pretty closely. I used my Paisley, Print pattern and Cross hatch backgrounds. Paisley & Print Pattern were embossed using versa mark. I stamped Night of navy over the embossed image and then wiped the excess ink off the embossing. I then added a little shimmer using my Sakura clear stardust pen. Have I said, "I love that pen"! I Do! I used my marvy scalloped corner rounder on two of the bordering blue layers, and my EK small corner rounder on the Night of Navy layers. I like the look. I used my double circle punch to punch half circles in the NoN edge to hold the navy and silver cording in place. I used silver button brads on the sentiment and the corners. I silver embossed an astrik snowflake from "Snow Flurries". I stamped "sparkle" from "Warm Words" on the bordering blue small layer with NoN ink. I like how it turned out.

My next card is only possible because of a RAK I recieved. The Blue and Red snowflakes(spoked circles) layered on the card were made with "Accent Essentials" on a Cricut Expression. I want the cart but it only comes with the E-bug. I want it so bad, so my friend sent me some diffent cuts form it in the mail. The background is some left over card stock I had stamped for a Christmas Swap I am in, so I used it here. The inks are bordering blue stamped three times before reinking, Night of Navy and Real Red, and Brilliacne Paltnium Planet. The gemstone stars are some I picked up on clearance at my local scrapbook store(LSS). I thought they added to the center of the large cut spoke circles, that I am using as snowflakes. The small snowflake stamps come from "Snow Flurries" and "Cold Play". I matted the sentiment with NoN and the base image with pieces of Real read left over from my swap card. I used a ticket corner punch on both. The "be Merry" is from "Warm Words". the white it is stamped on was sponged with Platnium Planet also. The ribbons were scraps and the brads MM silver for a finishing touch.

My last card is a second card I made for my Christmas Swap I signed up for on SCS. I used "Cold Play" and "Snow Flurries" stamp sets. The previously mentioned Cardstock and Ink colors.

I used the markers of Bordering Blue, Night of Navy and Real red to color the Scarf stamp and fill in the hat band and flower after stamping it with Versamagic "Midnight Black".

The Snowman was stamped with "Basic Gray", the arms with "Close to Cocoa" and the carrot nose with Pumkin Pie". I masked the circle of the snowman as I stamped them using Post its, starting with the small circle. I sponged the Night of Navy background with Brilliance Moonlight White after embossing it with my D'vine Swirl Folder. The hat is mounted on Dimensionals, and the red strips are pierced. The three White brads are the finishing touch. I am happy with how it turned out.

Until Later ... Happy Stamping!