Peace On Earth #78

Hello friends.  Just a quick post with a couple Christmas cards that I think will work with the new Peace On Earth Challenge.  Here's the mood board...

I took my inspiration from the snowman in the top right corner and used a snowman stamp and die I received as a gift from my cousin last year (or maybe the year before??) and had never even opened the package!  Too cute not to use though and I paired it up with TH's BIG TIDINGS dies and came up with these 2 cards.

I started with a Boho Blue background (SU!) that I used a SSS Icy Snowflakes ef on and then lightly ran my white pigment ink over the raised snowflakes to make them stand out a bit more.  I die cut the NOEL (TH - BIG TIDINGS) from silver mirror cs and then added my snowman (Marianne Designs - Snowman) that I stamped in black and heat set with clear embossing powder before coloring with my Copics.  The little birdie is also from the snowman set and the tree is part of the BIG TIDINGS die set.  I also added a silver star from glitter cs to the tree and some clear sparkly stickles to look like ornaments also.

I also added glitter to the snowman's hat brim and the pom poms on his scarf.  Pretty simple card but I love the way it turned out!!

My 2nd card was done the same way except that I switched the colors to reds and used the word JOY from the BIG TIDINGS.  

I did do a bit of ink blending with a darker red on the bottom half of the JOY die cut, and the background was embossed using SSS's Filigree Snowflakes ef.  These both came together rather quickly and I'm thrilled that I have 2 cards done for next years Christmas stash!  

You can check out all the awesome inspiration from the DT over at the Peace On Earth Challenge right HERE and then play along if you still need to make some Christmas cards or even work on next years stash!  This challenge is open till Thursday, Jan. 2nd @ 8:00PM.

I'm also going to enter these cards in over at Darnell's NBUS Challenge since the snowman set has sat in my craft room for over a year, or maybe even 2 years.  Geesh...nothing like a little procrastination, right??!!  

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