A Rocking Horse with Gifts, Red and Green, and a Metallic Ornament

Lots of inspiration from some challenges today.  Shopping our Stash "Forever Young" wants to see a card for a child so my rocking horse image seemed perfect.  And the image has gift-wrapped presents in it so it works for the Paper Players "Gifting" challenge and the Double D "Christmas Wrappings" challenge.

Stamped, coloured with coloured pencils, and bordered with a multi-patterned dps.

Then for the challenges out there asking for red and green: We Love Stamping, Simply CAS, and Colorful Options, and for Festive Friday where I chose red, green, white, and a Christmas sentiment from their list of options.

I stamped the focal image / sentiment in green on rustic cs.  I trimmed it with a stitched rectangle die and rubbed the green ink pad along the cut edges of the rectangle, then layered it on a larger rectangle of rustic cs.  I added it to a red card base and embellished the image with red gemstones for the berries.  It needed something more so I die cut some holly leaves; to colour them and give them texture, I pressed some of the green ink onto my craft mat and mixed Nuvo glimmer paste into it, and then spread that onto the holly leaves.  When dry, I added them to the card.

A third card today and it's for Addicted to CAS "Metallic".

I sponged Cosmic Shimmer glue through a ornament stencil, removed the stencil (and washed it immediately), and put the stencil back down and carefully applied different metallic colours of foil to the glue.  Trimmed the panel with a label die and added it to a copper shimmer card base.

    

    

    

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Impression Obsession rocking horse, Rubber Soul joy
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, SU Real Red
Paper - white cs, dps
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Great Impressions
Ink - Distress Rustic Wilderness
Paper - red and rustic white cs
Size - 6x4.25"
Accessories - red gemstones, Nuvo glimmer paste, stitched rectangle die

Supplies for card 3:
Paper - white cs, copper shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Cosmic Shimmer glue, metallic foil sheets, ornament stencil, Sizzix label die