Friday, November 15, 2013

Merry Monday #83


Good morning friends.  Playing along with Merry Monday's this week and the challenge is to use stripes, red, chocolate, and stars or hearts.  Once again the chocolate throws me for a loop, as I don't really think of browns being a Christmas color.  However, I have to admit that it is growing on me a little after seeing some of the fabulous cards by the designers and other bloggers.  You can take a look at them here.  So after mulling it over for awhile, I decided to use SU!'s "Heart of Christmas" stamp in Soft Suede (milk chocolate!) to get me started and this is what I came up with:


I apologize for the picture quality, but IRL the card is quite shimmery between the gold cs stars and the iridescent gold Glimmer Mist.  (enlarging the picture helps a little bit!)  I used a Darice embossing folder with Cherry Cobbler cs for my stripes and the trees are from SU!'s "Lovely as a Tree" stamp set.  I added a small seam binding ribbon (milk chocolate) from The Craft Spot and a little star tag from PTI.  The little stars on the trees are also a PTI die (Star Gazer). 




Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! :0)


8 comments:

Kathy said...

I enlarged the card as you suggested, and wow- it is so shimmery! Beautiful card!

Martha Herrera said...

Love your card, especially those little stars.

Loll said...

Hi Marcia. Another beautiful card ... thank you so much for joining us at Merry Monday! I LOVE how you've stamped the sentiment over top of the background of shimmer trees - fabulous design! The inlaid stars are beautiful, and I especially love the little star tag. Loll xx

Notes by Nina said...

Very pretty card Marcia, I love all that shimmer. Thank you for joining us for Merry Monday.

Karren said...

Beautiful card! Love your layout and your sentiment stamped over the trees. Thanks so much for joining us at Merry Monday.

Bonnie said...

This is so pretty, Marcia! I love the embossed stripes and gold stars on the red panel and the pretty trees! And who doesn't like milk chocolate! Thanks for sharing this with us at Merry Monday!

Linda Callahan said...

Beautiful! love the trees stamped behind the sentiment!

LeAnne said...

Gorgeous card....I love the addition of the gold elements and shimmer! So pretty! Thanks for playing with us at Merry Monday this week!