I thought a little Gold and Vanilla might be pretty.  Ooooh, I think it is!

 

 

I attached a piece of the Winter Wonderland Designer Vellum Stack to a piece of Very Vanilla card stock of the same size so the gold color would pop.  I then attached this to a mat of Gold Foil Paper and blinged it up with some of the Gold Glitter Ribbon which is sold in a package with the super pretty White Glitter Ribbon.  The final touch was the Gold heat embossed “Joy” from the stamp set called Your Presents.  This was cut out with the Lots of Labels Framelits.

 

 

Oh how I love the Winter Wishes stamp set.  It was a set that really spoke to me when I first looked through the Holiday Catalog.

 

 

For the pair of skates I stamped the skate on the left first on Whisper White.  I also stamped it on a piece of sticky note and carefully cut around the entire image and attached the sticky skate directly on top of my first stamped skate image.  This is called masking.  I inked up the skate again and stamped it next to and a bit higher that the first image.  One I removed the sticky note skate(mask) I revealed two skates sitting side by side, one slightly covered up with the other.  The rest of the card was quick and easy.  The stripped paper is actually the Winter Wonderland Designer Vellum Stack.  The beautiful snow flakes are from Flurry of Wishes and punched out with the coordinating (and money saving) Snow Flurry Punch.

 

 

Today is a cold chilly day in Wisconsin, so I thought a little warmth from the fireplace would be good.

 

 

The Festive Fireplace stamp set and the coordinating Festive Fireside Framelits Dies (which are sold as a bundle to save you 15%) make easy work of this detailed card.  All images were heat embossed with White Embossing Powder on Whisper White card stock.  For the fireplace and logs Crumb Cake ink was rubbed over the bricks with a sponge dauber, while the stockings and flames were colored in with Stampin’ Write Markers.  Notice how the mantle is attached with Dimensionals to give the illusion of depth?