Season of Love

Hello sweet friends!  November is a season of love and thankfulness.  It is also time for a fabulous release by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps as well as another birthday!  That's right...SNSS is celebrating its 12th birthday, so get ready for a whole month of special sales and activities.  To kick things off, I have a couple of cards using one of the adorable new stamp sets designed by Jen Nilsson, Cheerful Snowmen.  Who doesn't love a cute snowmen stamp set? 

Snowflakes from the new Cheerful Snowmen and Folk Art Snowflakes stamp sets were white embossed on mixed media paper, sponged with Oxide Inks, splattered with acrylic paint and water, and overstamped with text from the Texture Tiles 1 stamp set.  An angled panel was cut with a stitched border die and mounted to an embossed white panel.  The adorable snowman was colored with Copic Markers and added to the scene along with some sparkly gems.  The sentiment was embossed in the bottom corner to finish the card.

Since I had the bottom part of the sponged background from the card above, I decided to use the piece for a shaker card.

The top panel was sponged and then embossed with a Tim Holtz Embossing Folder.  The raised texture was embossed with sparkly embossing powder and the sentiment embossed in the lower corner.  The sequins were added between the two layers of the card, and the Copic colored snowmen from the Cheerful Snowmen set were adhered around the window of the shaker.

Be sure to check out the new release over at the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamp Store and come back often to participate in all of the 12th Birthday activities!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs,

Cathy