KSS - Celebrate the Season

Well, two more days and Christmas will be here! The hustle and bustle of preparations will be behind us, and the time to celebrate being with those we love will have arrived.

My family and I will be together to celebrate the love and forgiveness that came to us from God on that first Christmas so many years ago in the form of his beloved son, and the love we have for each other. We are blessed beyond measure.

Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card features the following sets:

Figure Skates Multi Step Clear Stamps

Holly & Mistletoe Multi Step Clear Stamps

Big & Bold Christmas Greetings Clear Stamps

To create this design, I stamped two sprigs of mistletoe directly on the woodgrain designer paper I chose.

Color Recipe for the Mistletoe

Layer1 Memento Pistachio

Layer 2 Memento Olive Grove

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Mossy Meadow

The berries on the mistletoe were dotted on using a stylus and white acrylic paint. I then set that aside to dry while I stamped the skates on a separate white panel.

Color Recipe for the Skates

Layer1 Versafine Onyx Black

Layer 2 Memento London Fog

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Going Gray

Layer 4 PTI Soft Stone stamped 3 times

Layer 5 PTI Soft Stone on the blades only

After fussy cutting out the skates, I glued them over the sprigs of mistletoe and then stamped the sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black. I matted the panel with black and attached it to the white 5.5 x 5.5 cardfront.

Wishing you a blessed Christmas filled with love and peace!!

I have entered this card in the following challenges:

The Library Challenge - Challenge #49 - Anthology (pick a precious book). I was inspired by the cover of Little Women which shows the girls ice skating.

Crafty Friends - Challenge #125 - Winter Colors

Jingle Belles - Taking Back our Ninth December - Happy Holidays

Winter Wonderland - End of Year Anything Christmas Goes Challenge

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog - Challenge #242  Christmas/Winter + a Sentiment

For additional designs featuring Kitchen Sink Stamps, please visit the blogs and YouTube videos of the members of the Kitchen Crew linked below:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nancy Stamps by Nancy McCabe

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