Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Christmas in July Sale-- ending soon!

Hi all! Just a note that tomorrow is the last day of the Christmas in July sale over at Flourishes! All of their Christmas sets are discounted. No codes needed, the prices are already adjusted!

Well, to get in the Christmas spirit early, I decided to do an "inspired by" card! I went to an event recently and in the goodie bag was this little tin of mints. I loved the flourish, the silver and black contrast and the pop of another color. Here's a look at the tin....



And, here's a look at the card it inspired! I used the Damask backgrounder from Flourishes. This is my favorite stamp. When you need a quick and elegant background, this stamp is your "go to" stamp! I embossed it with silver embossing powder on black. I also embossed the reindeer as well. This guy is from the Flourished Christmas Set. I added some red satin ribbon, layered up the pieces, added a rhinestone to the nose, colored in the reindeer's eye and added a white "sparkle" in the eye with my Inksentials white pen and I was done! Super duper easy!

Some of the other DT members have a bit of Christmas inspiration on their blogs today too! Check out Faith, Leslie, Susan, Sharon D. and Linda!

Happy Wednesday everyone!!

8 comments:

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Dianette Seda said...

Wow! That is indeed an inspiration and a great card! Thanks for sharing such beautiful card. Ohhh btw we have the Bacardi Rum Factory here and I didn't know they had mints too. And must be the same company since it's their logo. Hmmm I wonder what else we're doing and missing.

Anonymous said...

You're scaring me. I was thinking about my Christmas cards for this year on my drive to work this morning and what do you go and do, but make a GORGEOUS one with stamps I love. Bad Julie! Now I've got even more jumbles in my noggin. And no time to get any ink & rubber & paper together for a play date. WAAAAAA!

Tanya said...

This is fabulous! Love all the details like his red nose! Cute!

Thanks for the comments on my blog. Just cut my hair last week and I love it...just not that it added 15 more minutes to my mornings...sigh.

Jennifer Buck said...

How pretty! What an elegant reindeer! LOVE this! :) TFS! Hope you have a wonderful night! :)

Sharon (notimetostamp) said...

Julie, this is truly gorgeous!!! LOVE that silver Damask!!! And the red just pops it all!!! Great job!!!

Lovely gd Cee said...

oh man... love that we
(by we, i'm including myself: give me credit for it because i normally don't do this/ excuse me while i laugh: i feel so arrogant:)... can see things that only we can see. funny that as soon as i saw the inspiration piece i heard the throng of angels shouted "hallelujahhhhh!" however, as soon as i saw your finished card, your interpretation of the inspiration piece compare to mine, kicked butt. you are so talented! i love the silver, looks so shiny!
like always, your cards are the best-est!

Denise said...

Beautiful, love the color combo