Retro Rubber 99 - Design Team Card

This week at Retro Rubber we have an Anything Goes challenge - but of course, not quite anything as you still need to use at least one stamp that's older than a year AND give us an approximate age for it.

It's always nice to get out old favourites and combine them with some new things. One of my favourite Christmas sets is Oh What Fun, from the 2015 Holiday Catalogue. I've gold embossed a couple of stamps from that set, cut them out with framelits and added them to some of the gorgeous designer paper from All is Bright.

So, why not pop over to Retro Rubber and have a look at what the rest of the team have done, then get out some of your old stamps and show them a bit of love?

I've also taken inspiration from the fabulous sketch at Fab Friday.

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Product List
Note: Oh, What Fun is a retired set.

Oh, What Fun Photopolymer Stamp Set

[140386]

$44.00

Real Red A4 Card Stock

[106578]

$17.75

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$20.50

Gold Foil Sheets

[132622]

$8.50

All Is Bright 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[147892]

$23.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$19.00

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109129]

$10.50

Layering Squares Framelits Dies

[141708]

$69.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

$60.00

Paper Players 322 CCMC 434

Today's card is inspired by the Clean and Simple challenge at The Paper Players and the colour challenge at Create with Connie and Mary.

This card turned out to be an exercise in enforced restraint. I was aiming for simple and almost home-spun so fought a constant battle with myself to NOT do things. So, I've considered and discarded several techniques, embellishments and bits: gold emboss the sentiment, sponge a Dijon background for the trees, layering the panel, colouring the hills, adding a curlicue to the sentiment.... Each and every one I talked myself out of doing  - and I'm pleased I did. I like the cleanness of the result which lets the homespun warmth of the paper carry the weight and warmth of the greeting.

I could have hand cut the trees but to make sure they all had the same angle I punched a normal sized tree, then punched the cut tree to make a smaller version. Then I trimmed the trunks to match the hill lines.

Update: Delighted to be a winner to Create with Connie and Mary this week.

Ingredients

Card: Delightful Dijon, Whisper White, DSP from Warmth and Cheer stack

Stamps: Oh What Fun!, Thoughtful Branches

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake

Other: Tree punch, Gold metallic shapes.

Merry Monday Christmas 218

An all year round site entirely devoted to Christmas Cards! That's the Merry Monday challenge, a site I've not played at before. This week's challenge is...

So, I had this idea of some tartan Christmas trees against a sponged background and some hills. Since Christmas for us is a summer event, I just couldn't do snowy hills so we've got a summery scene instead.

The front layer of hills is popped up on dimensionals. The hills were created with Simon Says Stamp Stitched Hills and Slopes dies, which are pretty much NBUS even though I've had them a while. I think I'll use them more, now.

The trees are varying numbers of layers thick in order to create more sense of depth.

Ingredients

Card: Garden Green, Whisper White, DSP from Warmth and Cheer stack and Trim this Christmas stack (retired)

Stamps: Oh What Fun!

Inks: Garden Green, Delightful Dijon, Crumb Cake

Other: Tree punch (retired), Simon Says Stamp Stitched Hills and Slopes dies, Metallics enamel shapes, dimensionals, sponges