Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Cup of Cocoa?

Hello Friends & Followers!  Hope everyone is doing well among the hustle and bustle of the holidays.  Today I have a card I designed for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps' Inspiration Challenge 17 over at Splitcoaststampers.  The photo Taylor Usry chose for the challenge was warm & delicious indeed:
I went with a cocoa theme using SNSS' one and only Cocoa mousetucked inside this mug of cocoa with a candy cane sticking out:
It doesn't show in the photo, but I went over the snowflakes in the cup with a Quickie Glue pen and sprinkled iridescent glitter over it and BOY does it ever SPARKLE!  I added some Glossy Accents over the candy cane too to give it some gloss & shine.  I layers a bunch of snowflake punched shapes and topped them with a red button and some red & white twine that reminds me of peppermint which matched the glittery horizontal striped peppermint stick ribbon I purchased at Michaels that I wrapped around a piece of white cardstock that I punched with a scalloped border on both sides.  I also embossed the red background using my Snowflakes CB EF (I don't know what it is about red snowflakes that intrigue me so much... probably just that I like red and I like snowflakes) and matted my Copic colored Cocoa image on some red foil cardstock by American crafts - Voila!  Another card for the holiday stash, up to 53 now I believe.  This card also fulfills the requirements of the following additional challenges:


     Thanks for stopping by to see my card!  I hope you have a wonderful evening.  Stay warm!
~Crafty Math Chick

10 comments:

~amy~ said...

super cute:)

Melissa said...

Sweet card with an awesome layout! Thanks so much for sharing!

Hazel said...

Delicious card - thanks for joining in my CHNC challenge 49 - hope to see you again soon. x

Anonymous said...

Oh now this is FUN!
I love the red and white, the embossing
looks great and LOVE that image!
What a fun project!

Thanks for linking up at ABC!

Leah

Cassie said...

Ooo I love it! Glad you played along with us for CIC41 :D

Handmade Creations by Stephanie said...

ADORABLE!!!!!!Thanks for playing along with ribbon carousel!!!!

Jackie Rockwell said...

This card is so SWEET! I love the red and white color combo and the mouse in the teacup is adorable!

Danielle L. said...

Ahhhh CMC - your card is so so adorable! The mouse is stinkin' cute and the layered snowflake is fabulous!!!

Thanks for hangin' with us at the Ribbon Carousel Challenge. :)

Savannah O'Gwynn said...

OHHH! Super pretty--LOVE the embossing and that striped paper--totally looks like a candy cane!! Great image--LOVE this card all around:) THANKS so much for joining in the fun and playing along with us over at the RCC:)

Kathy D. said...

this is so cheerful with the red and white. Just made me smile.

Thanks for making a Christmas card with us at Clearly iStamp challenge blog. Hope you will stop by tomorrow when the new challenge is posted.