As you probably know, when you sign up with Stampin’ Up! you sign up under someone. Sometimes you are told about Stampin’ Up! by someone and you sign up under them and sometimes you go looking for someone to sign under. These relationships are officially upline and downline but are often referred to in my familial ways. My sister told me all about Stampin’ Up! earlier this year after she’d signed up and was having so much fun with it that I decided to sign up too. Since we’re in different countries, I couldn’t sign up under Caro and I had to look for a US based demo – and I’ve been having a lot of fun going to Jen’s classes and so on. But my sister and her upline, Eimear, regard me as part of their family which is really nice. I’ve even been to a team meeting in the UK where I had a rattling good time. So here’s the card that I got from Eimear:

I did laugh out loud at the cherry cobbler blendability coloured rhinestone on Rudolph’s nose – I think it is an awesome touch. The card is a standard sized UK card (the paper there is slightly different to in the US) in lost lagoon with some great sponging around the moon. The sleigh and reindeer are from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Home set and are stamped in lost lagoon. The sentiment comes from the Good Greeting set which, as I mentioned the other day, is on the clearance rack and a definite must have in my opinion.

I really like this card and so wanted to share it – with Eimear’s permission of course. Eimear has her own blog so do stop over and check out her work.

The Merry Monday challenge this week is to use gold, silver, white and one other colour.

I debated about this for a while – it’s not easy to combine gold and silver effectively. But then my eye fell on the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Home set, most of which I haven’t used. I have previously made a tag using night of navy with the santa and reindeer in silver and that seemed like a place to start. I realised that colouring some of the houses’ windows in gold would give the effect of that room having the light on, perhaps the children waiting for santa. This is the first time that I’ve used the houses from the Holiday Home set and thus the first time that I wished that I’d got the matching framelits. Instead, I had to deploy my paper snips!

So after cutting out the houses stamped in night of navy on whisper white, I coloured in a window per house in gold. I then used my night of navy blendability markers to colour in the doors, going over the outside of the third door a couple of times to give a darker colour. I also stamped the wreath in night of navy figuring that it was dark at night and all colour from the wreaths would be missing. Before adhering the houses, I used the embossing buddy and then embossed the santa and reindeer in silver. I really like the houses and will have to use them more! I finished off the card by lining the envelope using the backgrounds DSP in night of navy.