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Alota and Sarah Kay stamps worked wonderfully well for this Christmas card.



Stamps: Alota - Background
Sarah Kay - Christmas magic
Colors: Twinkling H2O's
Tahitian Blue
Sunset Glow
Mocha Rose
Sandollar
Rich Cocoa
Sapphire on Ice
Copic Sketc Markers
Snow - B000, N2, 0
Pattern Paper: Reminisce

Wintry Scene

I was looking for the perfect wintry background stamp for a while and found it pretty much behing my door from a local company Alota. It works very nicely with variety of my other winter stamps.



Stamps: Alota - Background
Magnolia - Chilly Tilda
Colors: Copic Sketch markers
Snow - B000, C2, 0
Blue - B91, B93
Brown (Tilda) - E43
Gray - N2
Twinkling H2O's
Rich Cocoa
Mocha Rose
Golden Garden
Scarab Beetle
Pattern paper: Reminisce - Blizzard blue

Friday Sketchers #27

The Alota background and Rowdy Tilda stamps make such a wondeful combination. It's like the two stamps were meant to be used together. I chose my favorite black/brown/white colors for this card and was so happy with the result.



Stamps: Alota - background
Magnolia - Rowdy Tilda
Colos: Copic Sketch Markers
Brown - E35, E43
Blue - B91, B93
Hair - E27, E59
Face - E00, E02
Snow - BG000, N0, 0
Pattern Paper: s.e.i. - sleighbell blinging

Stair Step Fold Card

I found this very cool technique on splitcoaststampers and totally fell in love with it. It is so unique and brings the well needed break from traditional flat cards. Imagine all the possibilities of decorating all the steps.



It looks pretty intrique but as a matter of fact it is so easy to make. Here is how you can make stair step fold card:

1. Cut your cardstock to the size of 10.5 X 5.0
2. Score the cardstock at 1.25", 2.5", 4.25", 6", and 8.25"
3. Fold making sure that the smallest 1.25" fold is folded down. This will be the front of your card.
4. Decorate as much as you want. I stamped the background image on separate piece of paper, cut it out after coloring, and attached to the tallest fold. Then I did the same with the Sarah kay stamp and attached it to the middle fold.

NOTE: I used regular cardstock for the stairs and I found it to be too soft to hold the decorations so I run a ribbon around for support (it's under the first green rectangle and goes around all the way to the back of the card. If you use some heavy duty cardstock, you might not need to do that.

If you'd like to see the post I found the idea on, look here:
Splitcoaststampers

Stamps: Alota - background
Sarah Kay - painting girl
Colors: Copic Sketch markers
Green - G000, G20, G82, G99, YG00, YG01, YG03, YG05
Brown - E35, E43, E59
Blue - B000, B02
Skin - E000, E02
Patter Paper: Cloud9Design - Leaf your troubles behind
Flowers: Petaloo

Rainy Days

The fall arrived to Washington state. The air is crisp, foliage is turning beautiful colors, the wind is gusting through the streets, the rain drops are tapping on our roof.... perfect weather to lock yourself in and make some cards.

I recently got some cute stamps from Alota and I absolutely love this one. I want to use it for "Welcome little one card" for my sister once her baby girl is born but for tight now I created this simple one.

As I said the stamp is from Alota. I used Copic sketch markers (C03 and C05) for the gray, Copic sketch marker (E27) for the brown and Tombow marker (845) for the red.

The lovely border was punched with Fiskars Lace border punch.

The finished card is 5x5 inches.