A Wish For Peace

This card is going to be my entry in the Penny Black Saturday Challenge for the month of December, the theme is "Winter or Christmas".  I thought I would use my new Penny Black set, "Peaceful Winter" 30-450 with an older set "Christmas Harmony" 30-194 for the sentiment.

To begin I used post its to mask off the hillside and a moon shape. Then I used  Distress Inks to sponge in a sky.  After I was happy with the sky, I added in the trees using my Misti tool and Distress Inks which I layered using with repeat stamping different colors of the Distress.   I used a waterbrush to work the colors in the scene, diluting in some areas and blending it into the scene.

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Peace on Earth

I always find that Christmas cards using these peaceful blue tones are among my favorites to create.  For these two cards I used stamps from a Limited Edition Tim Holtz set that was part of the Simon Says Stamp Stamptember event.  Sadly they are no longer available.  I hope that some of you who got these stamps may find some inspiration in my cards.

Both of these cards were easy to create and I loved the result.  I started by using Distress Oxide Inks to make a blended background and activated the ink with some water splatters.  Once dryed and treated with my anti static pillow, I heat embossed the images with super fine detail white embossing powder.  My favorite is from Hot Off The Press Inc.  

For the snowflakes and to back my panels I used some glitter paper from DCWV .  These snowflakes are from a Simon Says Stamp Die, "Stitched Snowflakes" Style S329. The Peace On Earth sentiment used on the top card is a Tim Holtz "Holiday Words" thinlet die.  The stitched rectangle die is one that use so much and it is the one from Lil Inkers Inc.

I am adding these two cards to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

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