Welcome to Day Two of the Waltzingmouse Stamps October release! Today, we are sharing sneak peeks of the new Nordic Winter stamp set. It is a great stamp set filled with great Nordic background images. My card today is also for this week's CASE Study challenge.
I'm also sneaking in a peek at the new 2011 Holiday Ornament set, too, which the rest of the team will share sneak peeks of tomorrow. (It was just perfect for this card so I had to use it!) I stamped the background on my kraft cardstock using new england ivy ink from CTMH. Then, I stamped come cream cardstock using another background image from Nordic Winter and tulip ctmh ink. I embossed the piece to give it the feel of fabric like on my card for this week's CASE Study challenge and then, distressed the edges and stitched it to a piece of red cardstock. I stamped the ornament and sentiment from 2011 Holiday Ornaments on cream cardstock and die cut it with a nestability die. Then, I hand cut a mat, added some string and button, and adhered it to my card using foam adhesive. (This card didn't quite turn out like the vision in my head, but that's the way it goes some times.)
Here's a closer look at the embossing. It reminds me of fabric like that used in my card Chupa chose for this week's CASE Study challenge (below).
For the CASE Study challenge, I was inspired to use a similar sketch and to create a similar look of the fabric on my stamped piece by distressing the edges and embossing it. You can find my original post here with all the details of this card. Hop over to the CASE Study challenge blog to play along and to see what the design team created.
Also be sure to hop around to the rest of the Waltzingmouse Stamps Designers' blogs to see what they created with the new Nordic Winter set:
Anya Schrier
Becca Feeken
Belinda Chang Langner
Julia Aston
Jennifer Holmes
Kate Whelan
Kelly Schirmer
Laurie Schmidlin
Lynn Mercurio
Mona Pendleton
Sandie Dunne
Tosha Leyendekker
Claire Brennan (Owner).
Have a great day!
Niki
