Peace This Christmas Card No 1

Hello, Crafters.

I hope you had a great
weekend.

I used the Peace This
Christmas Stamp Set for the first time yesterday and made three cards one after
the other!

I started by getting together some Whisper White Cardstock (CS),
three inks: Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede and Garden Green, and a pair of Paper
Snips.

I stamped eight pinecones in Soft Suede Ink, six pine branches in Garden Green Ink and some
berries in Cherry Cobbler Ink.

For the berries, I stamped six in groups of three and also three single
berries.

Then I had a very relaxing time fussy cutting all my stamped images!

I have no idea why I
decided to stamp and fussy cut the images instead of stamping them straight
onto the CS, except to say it seemed to be a good idea at the time! LOL!

I
imagine subconsciously, it was because there is no right or wrong way for the
images to be used, therefore as fussy cuts, I could play with the positioning!

It would
have been helpful if there was a coordinating set of dies for this stamp set.

Although I’m quite happy fussy cutting, I do know lots of crafters don’t!

I did start
stamping directly onto the top layer when I reached card number 3, so watch out for this as the week goes on!

To create today’s card I
started with a base of Whisper White CS, with a layer of Soft Suede CS and a top
layer of Whisper White CS.

I attached the first layer to the card base using
Tombow.

I decided to stamp the
sentiment in the centre of the card, and as this stamp set is not in
photopolymer, I set up my Stamp-a-ma-jig!

My first job was to wipe over the CS
with my Embossing Buddy.

Then I positioned my Stamp-a-ma-jig tool where I needed to
stamp the sentiment.

I inked my stamp in Versamark, then in Soft Suede Ink and stamped my sentiment
in position.

To avoid allowing the ink anytime to dry, I very quickly dunked it
into my box of Clear Embossing Powder and then heat set it.

I tried several
different arrangements for the pine branches, pinecones and berries and as soon as I was happy, I glued all the pieces in place using Tombow.